Richard Morris James Hong: Big in the IT Business James Hong was one of a generation of entrepreneurs who fell into the role almost accidentally by creating an application... 28 June 2012 11 min read
Alamzeb Khan Technical Plagiarism: the Scourge of Pakistan's Educational and Creative Industries After suffering the wholesale plagiarism of articles from Simple-Talk by a Pakistan-based website (now 'suspended'), we asked our Pakistan Correspondent,... 13 June 2012 9 min read
Buck Woody The Lure of Simplicity in IT A deceptively simple solution to a business-re-engineering problem can beguile companies into selecting a compromise that doesn't actually meet all... 07 June 2012 12 min read
Richard Morris Chuck Lathrope: DBA of the Day Chuck Lathrope was a finalist for the Exceptional DBA of the Year award in 2009. We contacted him to find... 17 May 2012 11 min read
Richard Morris Josh Klein: Big in the IT Business It is hard to categorize Josh Klein. Author, Technologist, Developer, Entrepreneur, polymath? He has participated in several startups, and is... 03 April 2012 12 min read
Hugh Bin-Haad Introducing IM#1: The Final One? Our resident expert in current advances in Computer Science, Professor Bin-Haad, reviews the first details to emerge about the experimental... 01 April 2012 16 min read
Richard Morris Glenn Berry: DBA of the Day Glenn Berry works as a Database Architect at Avalara in Bainbridge Island, Washington. He is a SQL Server MVP, and... 23 February 2012 11 min read
Richard Morris Seth Godin: Big in the IT Business Seth Godin has transformed our understanding of marketing in IT. He invented the concept of 'permission marketing', sees the end... 02 February 2012 10 min read
Richard Morris Scott Shaw: DBA of the Day Scott Shaw was one of the finalists to the 2011 Exceptional DBA Award (XDBA). The award was founded in 2008... 24 January 2012 13 min read
Alamzeb Khan Pakistan: Cyber Warfare and Internet Hacking The extent of malicious hacking on the internet, in pursuit of political or economic advantage, crime or just plain mischief,... 17 January 2012 10 min read
Richard Morris The Marmite or Miracle Whip of Computer Languages What is it about C++ that makes it one of the most important computer languages for systems work, yet so... 03 January 2012 17 min read
Richard Morris Jeff Moden: DBA of the Day Jeff Moden's election to the Exceptional DBA of the Year award for 2011 was a popular one. Although all the... 24 November 2011 17 min read
Mike Mooney The Framework Myth If ever there was an irresistible programmer's platitude, it is that code-reuse is invariably a good thing. Unfortunately, even the... 07 April 2011 19 min read
Nick Harrison A Developers’ Guide to Refactoring Databases When Agile meets 'Big Design', the result can be frustration on both sides. Is it possible for database development to... 04 April 2011 15 min read
Bob Cramblitt Red Gate’s new Scary DBA: Coming to a town near you Grant Fritchey, The Scary DBA, has now taken the leap from being a Simple-Talk author and FoRG(Friend of Red Gate)... 16 February 2011 5 min read
Bob Cramblitt Tracy Hamlin, Exceptional DBA of 2010, on what it means to go the extra mile Tracy Hamlin has been elected by judges and the SQL Server community as the Exceptional DBA of 2010. The annual... 18 August 2010 6 min read
Richard Morris Giancarlo Niccolai: Geek of the Week Falcon isn't exactly new. It is a scripting language that is designed with a number of programming paradigms for multi-threaded... 07 June 2010 13 min read
Alamzeb Khan Software Piracy in Pakistan Alamzeb Khan, our Simple-Talk correspondent in Pakistan, goes undercover to discover the true scale of software piracy in his native... 13 March 2010 10 min read
Bob Cramblitt An interview with Josef Richberg – The Exceptional DBA of 2009 Josef Richberg, a DBA with HarperCollins Publishers, has been selected by judges and the DBA community as winner of 2009's... 03 September 2009 8 min read
Phil Factor To Boldly Ask IT for Development Work Phil has always been mystified by the way that, in Science-Fiction films, the crew of space-ships are able to reprogram... 22 June 2009 10 min read
