Everyone gets in career ruts from time to time, and it can happen for a range of reasons. Maybe you’ve been doing the same exact thing for too long. Maybe you’ve ended up at a company or in a role with little growth potential. Maybe the need for your skill isn’t what it was when they hired you. However, regardless of what the underlying cause is, the result is that your paycheck may have stagnated as well. Here are 10 ways to climb your way out of that rut.

The new release of Notes and Domino 8 present developers with a lot of information to master, including a new platform, programming constructs, enhanced support for Web services, and development tools for composite applications. Hit the ground running with more powerful, efficient code and the know how to implement more effective and flexible applications across your organization–just for starters. THE VIEW’s Notes and Domino 8 Development Seminar can get you on the right track, but don’t delay, the last remaining event of its kind takes place in just two weeks in Chicago.

Review the full agenda and register today. Get the latest expert training on composite applications, Eclipse, LotusScript, Java, Open Source Web Toolkits, Web Services, NSF/DB2, and more. It’s the fastest way to get up to speed with ND8 and take advantage of its powerful new features to dramatically improve your applications and skills.

Users can now learn how to use Domino Web Access (for Release 8) right in their office with TLCC’s newest user course for Notes and Domino 8. This course can be taken using a web browser or a Notes client. Using Domino Web Access 8 is one of five courses available with TLCC’s site license for Notes 8 users. All five courses are easily customized to suit the organization’s exact needs. Lessons can be modified or removed. A customer can even add their own lesson on in-house applications to provide a complete tailored learning experience for everyone in the organization.

Companies are wasting money on security processes–such as applying patches and using antivirus software–which just don’t work, according to Cisco’s chief security officer John Stewart.

Speaking at the AusCERT 2008 conference in the Gold Coast, Stewart said the malware industry is moving faster than the security industry, making it impossible for users to remain secure.

Learn how to create a port checker application that, when combined with IBM Lotus Sametime, can provide instant notification of outages in your environment. The Lotus Sametime toolkits can be used in powerful ways to create customized applications that harness the power of Lotus Sametime.

This article provides a step-by-step tour of IBM Lotus Expeditor client and toolkit. Learn how to install the Lotus Expeditor client and toolkit, how to create a client services project and to import a sample into the tools, and how to remotely launch the application onto devices.

One of the researchers behind ScanAlert, the "Hacker Safe" certification company McAfee recently acquired, is facing fraud charges in Indiana. Brett Oliphant, whose title had been vice president of security services before the Napa, California, company was acquired by McAfee in January, is facing 11 counts of securities fraud in transactions that allegedly brought in more than $1.215 million.

Oliphant and his brother Bryan were charged in December. Their trial is set for Nov. 18 at the Elkhart County Superior Court in Indiana. ScanAlert built technology for auditing and then certifying Web sites as "Hacker Safe." McAfee paid $54.9 million for the company in January and has since renamed the certification service "McAfee Safe."

IBM has elevated nine employees to the title of IBM Fellow–its most prestigious technical honor. The company also presented more than $3.5 million in cash awards to corporate and patent portfolio awardees in addition to awards given to more than 500 IBM technical leaders from around the world directly responsible for collaborating to deliver true innovation and business value.

IBM conferred the accolades and awards at its 2008 Corporate Technical Recognition Event in Phoenix, Ariz. CTRE is a 45-year tradition at IBM, established to recognize exceptional technical employees and reward them for extraordinary achievements and contributions to the company’s technology leadership.

IBM announced details of new application security software designed to help clients securely manage employee, partner and customer IT users and their access to company applications and information.

The new release of IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager software focuses on enabling a company’s separate business divisions to deploy secure software applications using open standards and a wide range of security credentials without needing to embed complex security logic into each application. The solution simplifies application integration using many forms of user credentials and facilitates the secure sharing of information between trusted parties–such as business partners or separately managed divisions within an organization operating in an SOA environment.

Innovation is a tough enough task all by itself. Today’s innovators need to be highly intelligent, motivated and creative to come up with solutions to some of the biggest technological problems. But adding to these difficulties is a whole host of hurdles that can make it tough for even the best and most innovative technologies to survive.