Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I’ve found over the past week. This week’s top articles focus on the 2012 salary survey, responsive design, the rise in mobile usage, and more. I hope you find them useful:
Architecture agnosticism for application transformation
The big problem with cloud computing is the fact that many applications aren’t built for the cloud. Application architecture must allow for flexibility and portability, as also mentioned in this post.
2012 IT Salary Survey
Dr. Dobbs just released the findings from their 2012 Salary Survey, and the results are mostly encouraging. Except for a few areas, IT salaries are steadily rising.
The ultimate guide to responsive design
Responsive design is a growing trend, thanks to the rise of smartphones and tablets. The idea behind responsive design is simple: Your web site and web apps should adapt to the device on which they’re being viewed. If you’d like to go one step further, here’s a different (yet similar) method, that leaves you with one web application that looks and feels native on all devices.
Mobile internet use rises dramatically
Are you still wondering whether or not your company should jump on the mobile bandwagon? If so, here’s some research that indicates smartphone adoption is growing at an incredible rate. Don’t get left behind.
Joe Stangarone is a 30+ year veteran of the IT industry and president of mrc—the software company behind the award winning development platform, 
