Richard Morris Donald Knuth: Geek of the Week Donald Knuth is an extraordinary man. As well as inventing 'Literate Programming' and writing the most important textbook on programming... 26 November 2009 14 min read
Richard Morris Dave Moore: DBA of the Day Dave Moore is one of the world's top DBAs and best-known for being the architect of the famous DBXray(tm) product... 17 November 2009 7 min read
Richard Morris Simon Peyton Jones: Geek of the Week Simon Peyton Jones is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research's lab in Cambridge. Although he is best known as the... 13 November 2009 11 min read
Richard Morris Interview with the Scary DBA – Grant Fritchey For our first feature on working DBAs and their lives, we chose Grant Fritchey, the self-styled Scary DBA, who has been... 30 October 2009 12 min read
Richard Morris Tucker Taft: Geek of the Week What do military networks and a 19th Century Difference Engine have in common? Tucker Taft; industry leader in compiler construction... 28 October 2009 15 min read
Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Joe Celko Joe Celko, the Database Developer and writer from Austin Texas, is not a man to mince his words. His encyclopedic... 16 October 2009 12 min read
Richard Morris Stephen Curtis Johnson: Geek of the Week Stephen Johnson, one of the team that developed UNIX, can claim to be the man who originally wrote the software... 01 October 2009 11 min read
Richard Morris Walter Bright: Geek of the Week After developing the first native C++ compiler, the Zortech C++, and writing the Symantec Java compiler, Walter Bright created D... 01 October 2009 8 min read
Richard Morris Alan Kay: Geek of the Week The development of Object-oriented programming, the windowing User-interface, Ethernet and the Laptop all had essential contributions from a brilliant, visionary,... 14 September 2009 11 min read
Richard Morris Luca Cardelli: Geek of the Week Luca Cardelli is probably best known for Polyphonic C# and Biocomputing, but he has designed a number of experimental languages... 02 September 2009 7 min read
Richard Morris Sir Tony Hoare: Geek of the Week After inventing the QuickSort algorithm, and designing the compiler for the Algol 60 programming language, Tony Hoare went on to... 18 August 2009 14 min read
Richard Morris Chuck Moore: Geek of the Week Charles Moore is one of the greatest ever programmers. The 'Forth' language he invented is still in use today, particularly... 05 August 2009 13 min read
Richard Morris Richard Stallman: Geek of the Week Many famous geeks work away at their programs without considering the wider implications of what they, and others, are doing.... 20 July 2009 12 min read
Richard Morris Niklaus Wirth: Geek of the Week It is difficult to begin to estimate the huge extent of the contribution that Niklaus Wirth has made to IT... 02 July 2009 11 min read
Richard Morris Craig Newmark: Geek of the Week Occasionally, readers of Simple-Talk will ask quizzically if the 'Geek of the Week' that the editors have chosen really is... 15 June 2009 9 min read
Richard Morris Marc Wick: Geek of the Week Marc Wick is the genius behind GeoNames, the free Web Service that powers a number of popular GPS applications and... 06 May 2009 8 min read
Richard Morris Anders Hejlsberg: Geek of the Week Anders Hejlsberg, the creative genius behind C#, and much of the .NET framework, had already been famous for sixteen years... 19 March 2009 10 min read
Richard Morris Gail Shaw: Geek of the Week Gail Shaw, the fabled 'gilamonster', earned her MVP, and the gratitude of a great number of SQL Server professional seeking... 09 March 2009 12 min read
Richard Morris Michael Meeks: Geek of the Week Richard Morris talks to Michael Meeks, a young Geek who has made a huge impact on the quality of Open... 09 February 2009 14 min read
Richard Morris Larry Gonick: Geek of the Week Cartoonist, mathematician, historian and environmentalist. Larry Gonick proved that learning could be fun by producing a wide range of educational... 08 January 2009 11 min read
