Centriq Blog Category: Corporate IT Training

Whether you are an IT pro with years of experience, or still relatively new to the field, continuing your tech education is a must if you want to remain competitive in the job market.

Better yet, continue your education with an IT certification.

Getting a highly respected IT certification not only enhances your skills, it lets potential employers know that you are serious and capable of meeting strict testing requirements.Read More

Customized Keyboard Shortcut Keys

Many users find that keyboard shortcuts for Access helps them work more efficiently.  In the previous blog, we discussed some frequently used keyboard shortcuts. In this blog, we will discuss how to create customized keyboard shortcut keys.

The AutoKeys macro assigns shortcut key combinations to a set of tasks.  You can only create one AutoKeys macro in each database but you can create multiple submacros, with each submacro assigned a shortcut key combination.  You must name the macro “AutoKeys” for it to work.Read More

Angular and Typescript are in many respects the future of the web. If you are at all interested in being a web developer, or continuing a career as one, then get ready for a big paradigm shift.Read More

At the 2018 Red Hat Summit, held in San Francisco, CA, Red Hat and Microsoft announced a collaboration that has the companies jointly managing a public OpenShift service running on Microsoft Azure.

This will allow customers to run Kubernetes-container-based applications on either on-premises servers or the Azure cloud, and manage them through OpenShift. Both vendors are planning to offer support for the service, with Microsoft handling the cloud portion and Red Hat the Kubernetes container side.Read More

Symbols for Special/Custom Formatting

To customize the display of numbers, dates/times, and text, use the Format property.

For a field, you set this property in the Table Design View (in the Field Properties section) or in the Query Design View (in the Field Properties property sheet). For a control, you set this property in the control’s property sheet.

The Format property affects only how the data is displayed, not how the data is stored.Read More

Big Data has been in the news lately, though most people wouldn’t realize it.

Those Facebook hearings in Congress where Mark Zuckerberg got grilled about what Facebook was doing with user information? That was basically an investigation into Facebook’s Big Data.Read More

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a framework that offers guidance for IT Service Management. It has been around for many years, but the United States only recently caught on to its value.

ITIL was developed in Great Britain in the 1980’s after Margaret Thatcher discovered that the government’s IT department wasn’t providing much value. They contracted with IBM to do a study of organization’s IT units to identify what they did to be successful. In that study, success was defined as “providing services to the overall organization that the organization finds valuable.” The first version was published in 1989 and has been revised three times, most recently in 2011, and will be revised again this year.Read More

It can be a challenge to find unique IT training on new or uncommon technologies, but that’s where Centriq Training comes in. Not only do we offer IT training classes on technologies like Cisco, EC-Council, Microsoft, and ITIL, but we also have bootcamps and training classes on Agile & Scrum, IBM, Apache Hadoop, F5, Project Management, and Soft Skills classes as well.

If you have a training need not listed on our Class Schedule, don’t continue to spend time searching … let us do the searching for you within our partner network. We will locate training that fits your schedule and budget, saving you time and money.Read More

Whether you’re an entry-level programmer or a developer looking to enhance your resumé, you should be aware of the top programming languages for 2018.

Much of this list hasn’t changed over the years. Some of the staples of website coding – HTML, PHP, SQL, and JavaScript ­– haven’t changed in a decade.

But, if you want to get into more advanced web apps, then you’ll need to know more than HTML and JavaScript. Consider learning languages like Ruby and its popular web-application framework Ruby on Rails.Read More