Jonathan Allen Jonathan Allen's Top 10 Favourite Simple Talk Articles We asked several well-known readers of Simple-Talk to write about their all-time top ten favourite articles from Simple-Talk, and why... 06 May 2014 9 min read
Buck Woody Which New Technology Should I Chase? It is a question that almost anybody working in IT occasionally ask themselves. 'How can I best develop my career... 06 May 2014 18 min read
Hugh Bin-Haad We don’t need Source Control: we’re Database Developers As part of our long-running series of articles where we ask working database developers how database source control improves their... 01 April 2014 7 min read
David Poole Technical Debt and the Cultural Gap Sometimes, technical jargon is often so readily understandable by the technical community that they forget that it may be interpreted... 13 January 2014 13 min read
Dwain Camps Fundamentals of Vendor Management Creating and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with external vendors is one of the pillars of good project management. Dwain Camps... 28 October 2013 15 min read
Dwain Camps The Proposals Conundrum When you work for a small software development (or any services) company, one of the major challenges is to make... 19 September 2013 11 min read
Richard Morris Don Knuth and the Art of Computer Programming: The Interview Fifty years after starting the 'Art of Computer Programming', (TAOCP), Don Knuth is still working hard at the project. He... 11 June 2013 8 min read
Al Noel Some “Laws” of Software Development Despite all the advances in software tools, there seem to be several enduring truths about software development. By understaning these... 17 May 2013 5 min read
Dwain Camps How to Avoid Software Projects Failing Although it is necessary to deliver a software project on budget, to schedule, to the right quality, it isn't, by... 02 May 2013 14 min read
Phil Factor PowerPoint Presentation Burnout Phil's dread of Powerpoint sales presentations is already known to his readers, but we've never before heard the story of... 16 April 2013 9 min read
Phil Factor The Art of the One-Pager In which Phil finds himself in a place of work where, despite his penchant for insulting or upsetting senior managers,... 02 April 2013 11 min read
Phil Factor Project Mismanager In IT, it is difficult to measure individual productivity, and it is particularly difficult to determine whether a project manager... 07 March 2013 10 min read
Michael Williamson Phil Wise Bureaucracy-Free Software Development Could it be that, if you adopt Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, then much of the bureaucracy... 27 February 2013 14 min read
Kat Hicks Interviewing Tips for a Database Position Interviewing for a database position is a careful game of give and take. Knowing what to expect and how to... 22 January 2013 15 min read
Joel Cochran A Sudden Move: One developer’s journey from C# to JavaScript JavaScript is 'tragically important' because, although it is inherently flawed, it is used everywhere because it allows the developer to... 13 December 2012 9 min read
James Moore The Benefits of Regular Deployment When developing software, it makes sense to 'fail early, fail often'; to become aware of mistakes quickly and to learn... 13 December 2012 14 min read
Richard Morris Alex Payne: Big in the IT Business Alex Payne worked on developing Twitter for three years. When he started, it was a small side-project: When he left,... 15 October 2012 11 min read
Buck Woody The Value of Professional Associations If you're a technical professional, it is a good idea to belong to a professional association. There are several to... 31 August 2012 12 min read
Jeremy Jarrell Looking Back; or How to Improve Your Team with Retrospectives Instead of waiting until the end of a project to ask 'what worked and what didn't, why not use regular... 23 August 2012 11 min read
Opinion Pieces Buck Woody in Opinion Pieces Learn Where You Are In order to make progress in your career in IT, you need to actively plan your professional development rather then... 03 August 2012 10 min read
