Richard Morris Hilary Mason: Geek of the Week Founder of machine intelligence research company Fast Forward Labs, Hilary Mason is the Data-Scientist-in-residence at Accel, and the former Chief... 06 April 2016 10 min read
Richard Morris Martin Odersky: Geek of the Week Martin Odersky is a German computer scientist who specializes in code analysis and programming languages. He is most famous for... 20 March 2016 7 min read
Richard Morris Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten: Geek of the Week Boris is CEO and co-founder of TNW. He's also a serial entrepreneur who founded not only TNW but also a... 05 March 2016 11 min read
Richard Morris Roberto Ierusalimschy: Geek of the Week Roberto Ierusalimschy together with Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes, wrote Lua. Lua is widely used in video games... 28 February 2016 11 min read
Richard Morris Alfred Aho: Geek of the Week Before the advent of PowerShell in Windows, we reached for AWK for those information-processing tasks that required just simple code... 05 February 2016 10 min read
Richard Morris Cleve Moler: Geek of the Week Matlab was never intended as a commercial product when it was first created by Chris Moler while he was a... 05 February 2016 11 min read
Richard Morris David Fitzjarrell: Geek of the Week David Fitzjarrell is well known amongst Oracle developers for his knowledge of database performance tuning and problem solving/resolution. He is... 05 February 2016 10 min read
Richard Morris Jon Gay: Geek of the Week Nowadays we see Flash as a rather tiresome relic, because we can now achieve almost the same results by using... 27 January 2016 9 min read
Richard Morris Clive Sinclair: Geek of the Week Although most of the geeks of the IT industry are famous for their software, it was the geeky entrepreneurs that... 21 January 2016 9 min read
Richard Morris Chet Ramey: Geek of the Week The BASH shell is the most popular UNIX command-line scriptable shell. It became the inspiration for PowerShell. As with so... 14 December 2015 10 min read
Richard Morris Philip Greenspun: Geek of the Week Philip Greenspun is probably best known to other geeks for his Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or... 14 July 2015 19 min read
Richard Morris Alan Cooper: Geek of the Week Alan Cooper helped to debug the most widely-used PC language of the late seventies and early eighties, BASIC-E, and, with... 15 April 2015 14 min read
Richard Morris Swizec Teller : Geek of the Week Why do programmers work best at night? Is this related to the idea that drinking alcohol improves cognitive ability? Is... 09 April 2015 10 min read
Richard Morris Conrad Wolfram: Geek of the Week Conrad Wolfram is the 'younger Wolfram' of Wolfram Research, the company behind Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica. He wants to transform the... 06 February 2015 10 min read
Richard Morris Bjarne Stroustrup, and Programmers With Class Bjarne Stroustrup devised C++ or 'C with Classes' in 1978. It has evolved a great deal over the decades and... 19 August 2014 19 min read
Richard Morris Paul Randal: Geek of the Week Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp, together with their small team of experts at SQLSkills.com, dominate the high-end training and consultancy... 10 March 2014 10 min read
Richard Morris David Heinemeier Hansson: Geek of the Week Ruby on Rails, the open-source web application framework, grew out of David Heinemeier Hansson's work on Basecamp at 37Signals. It... 07 August 2013 9 min read
Richard Morris Bill Baker: Geek of the Week Bill Baker had a considerable influence on the way that SQL Server evolved to deliver reporting services and business intelligence.... 04 December 2012 8 min read
Richard Morris Jeffrey Snover: Geek of the Week PowerShell has radically improved the ease of monitoring and adminstering Windows-based servers, and automating routine processes. The visionary leader of... 23 October 2012 10 min read
Richard Morris Bertrand Meyer: Geek of the Week Bertrand Meyer, the author of 'Object-oriented Software Construction', renowned teacher, and designer of the Eiffel programming language, believes in simple... 17 September 2012 13 min read
