Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 32 – A Moment Of Levity We all feel groundless sometimes, but this fellow more than most. What caused his current woes? The funniest answer wins... 03 July 2015 1 min read
Devyani Borade Think You Can Be a Software Tester? We all use software, and we all find it alarmingly easy to find bugs in it. Does that mean that... 29 June 2015 10 min read
Adam Bertram Questions About Devops that IT Pros are Too Shy to Ask DevOps isn't a particular technology, nor a job role. It is more of a software development method, initiating originally from... 29 June 2015 10 min read
Tony Davis We Don’t Need Any More Heroes Where do I start? It’s a question each of us asks when faced with any learning goal, whether it’s how... 17 June 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 31 – The Amazing-ish Race These olde-timey vehicles wait for nothing – except your comments. Tell us what’s going on here – as ever, the... 17 June 2015 1 min read
Dwain Camps Software Engineering: Just How Immature is it? "Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering" by Robert L. Glass has become a classic of Software Engineering as cherished as... 12 June 2015 19 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 30 – Hang Time These two certainly look like fast chums! But what’s going on? It’s up to you to tell us in the... 04 June 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Test Driving Your Database In any engineering project, you can’t avoid testing your product against reality. A friend who once worked at a car... 04 June 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 29 – Ladies of the Lake What a beautiful idyll! What a beautiful crossbow! What a lovely day for a caption competition. The funniest comment left... 21 May 2015 1 min read
Mike Fal DevOps and the DBA Michael Fal is a huge advocate of automation and many ways it can improve the lives of developers and DBAs... 08 May 2015 11 min read
Tony Davis The Art of the Author When tidying out an old cupboard a few weeks ago, one after another I casually tossed outdated, dusty technical books... 07 May 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 28 – The Eyes Have It A strange glimpse of a dark, ovoid future? A warning from the past? You decide! Best caption wins a $50... 07 May 2015 1 min read
Devyani Borade Developer-Tester Relationships In a development team, there are times when the relationships between developers and testers can become strained. How can you... 06 May 2015 11 min read
Tony Davis Taming Transaction Logzilla A transaction log, if sized sensibly, is like a ring buffer. It will stay the same size however much data... 24 April 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 27 – Well, would you look at that Tinker, teacher, presenter, host? Who is this man and what is he pointing to? Caption this scene in the comments,... 23 April 2015 1 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
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 26 – They Promised Me A Jetpack In this breathless rush towards the future, there are bound to be a few mistakes along the way. This certainly... 09 April 2015 1 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
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 25 – Held for Inspection What wondrous magic is this? Something very small, or is he very large? Caption the scene with an ingenious quip... 26 March 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis One Man’s Panacea is another Man’s Poison It can be dispiriting when we see the IT Industry take genuine attempts to solve problems, and turn them into... 13 March 2015 3 min read
