IT Insights Blog

Greetings, faithful readers. How is everyone's holiday shopping going? There are still few days to hustle and bustle before the gift-giving zero hour, but you'd better get over to the mall, or put that Amazon Prime membership to work, pronto. Oh, and by the way, we got something for you! With 2018 nearly here, we've combed through the archives and identified the 10 Most Popular Posts to the IT Insight Blog of the past 12 months.

Wow! What a wonderful, whirlwind week we just had in Nashville, Tenn., home of the Grand Ole Opry, tasty victuals and a heapin’ helpin’ of Southern hospitality. We also had a passel of IT certification talk with hundreds of really sharp instructors and CTE directors.

TestOut Continuing Education is a subsidiary of TestOut Corporation, which means that all of us here work for a pretty incredible company. You don't just have to take our word for it, either, because we've got the hardware to back up that claim. Not the computer hardware — there's plenty of that around here, too, but what we're actually talking about is the kind of hardware that goes on the trophy shelf.

There are a lot of different ways that you could spend your money right now. Assuming, of course, that there's anything left over after you just spent half of what you earn in a month to stock up on beef jerky and energy drinks so that you can spend the next four days in a sleeping bag outside the neighborhood movie theater waiting for the first screening of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Oh, yeah, bring it on!

Like a lot of other skilled professionals, many IT workers are probably somewhat going through the motions around the office right now. Everyone is taking it easy, passing out gifts to coworkers, dressing up for the company Christmas party, and sort of generally running out the clock on 2017. There will be plenty of time for all of us to relocate the grindstone and get our noses back where they belong in January.