Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 24 – The Shape of Things to Come The world of tomorrow! What wonders are these two creating from naught but will, determination, and vast round of seed... 13 March 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 23 – Remote Viewing It is time once again for you to gaze upon an intriguing scene and let us know what’s happening, in... 27 February 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 22 – The Old Man and the C# What might these gentlemen be saying to one another? The funniest gets $50 in Amazon vouchers.… 13 February 2015 1 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
William Brewer IT Compliance and Software Development What is IT Compliance and is it really necessary for contemporary Agile applications to be constrained by the requirements of... 06 February 2015 14 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 21 – Journey Into Mystery We leave cosy Victoriana behind for the thrilling frontiers of space. We still need you to come up with funny... 30 January 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Prettier, But Less Usable When the original window-based user-interface was first being developed by Palo Alto, the team was driven by the idea that... 15 January 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 20 – The Size of the Matter We present a whimsical scene. The best (funniest) suggestion for what’s going on wins $50 in Amazon credit. As always,... 15 January 2015 1 min read
Matt Hilbert Going to Extremes to Release Bug Fixes and New Features XP is no general panacea; but for the right team, and for a product that needs to release bug fixes... 06 January 2015 6 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 19 – Point and Click What a beautiful pastoral scene! If you absolutely had to caption it, what would you say? Funniest answer wins a... 02 January 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition – A DBA Christmas Carol Old DBA Scrooge is ready lock his developers out of the server and send them to the poor house (bear... 18 December 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 17 – Duel Another conundrum, another caption required. What has set these two gentlemen at each other’s throats? Linux vs Unix? A slight... 04 December 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 16 – More Fish in the Sea Congratulations to Dimitrios Kalemis for winning this week’s caption competition. A strange scene! And once more, it’s up to you... 20 November 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis Please sp_help My System Stored Procedure SQL Server provides a large number of built-in stored procedures that can tell us all sorts of useful information about... 20 November 2014 3 min read
Dan Appleman The Salesforce Platform: The Return of the Citizen Programmer The current popularity of the Salesforce software development platform has taken the industry by surprise. The current IT culture favours... 14 November 2014 8 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 15 – Watson the Telly Congrats to Andre who won this week’s caption competition with: My Dear Watson, I’d wish you’d stop tipping your cigar... 07 November 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis PASS Summit 14 Dispatches: Azure Machine Learning PASS Summit 14 Day 1 keynote and Joseph Sirosh and Sanjay Somi demo’d Azure Machine Learning (ML) and the drive... 05 November 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis PASS Summit 14 Dispatches: DocumentDB During the PASS Summit 14 keynote, TK “Ranga” Rengarajan mentioned briefly Microsoft’s DocumentDB, a new NoSQL database. I was hoping... 05 November 2014 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 14 – Back To The Future Congratulations to Dimitrios Kalemis who won this week’s competition with: Hail, Starfleet Admirals! We who are about to use NoSQL... 24 October 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis To PASS Summit and Beyond In his recent, successful bid to win election to the PASS board, Grant Fritchey (@GFritchey) opened his campaign statement as... 23 October 2014 2 min read
