Richard Morris Paul Randal: Geek of the Week Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp, together with their small team of experts at SQLSkills.com, dominate the high-end training and consultancy... 10 March 2014 10 min read
Tony Davis DevOps Dilemma The term ‘DevOps’ has been widely misunderstood because the different teams within any really substantial development project understand the work... 14 February 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis Should IT Managers Code? In one of his first ever Simple-talk articles, Phil Factor tells the story of a freelance Sybase programmer who created... 17 January 2014 3 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
Tony Davis Cloud Insecurity Often, one sees the views of those raising reasoned doubts about cloud security dismissed as fogeyish and cloud-phobic. Of course,... 22 November 2013 3 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
Tony Davis What the Hekaton? Hekaton, the power behind SQL Server 2014’s In-Memory OLTP technology, is intended to make data operations run orders of magnitude... 25 October 2013 2 min read
Tony Davis PASS 13 Dispatches: moving to the cloud PASS Summit 13, Day 1 keynote by Quentin Clarke and we’re hearing about “redefiniing mission critical in the cloud”. With... 16 October 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis PASS 13 Dispatches: Memory Optimized = On I’m at the PASS Summit in Charlotte for the Day 1 keynote by Quentin Clarke, Corporate VP of the data... 16 October 2013 2 min read
Tony Davis It’s the thought that counts… I recently finished editing a book called Tribal SQL, and it was a fantastic experience. It’s a community-sourced book written... 09 October 2013 3 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
Tony Davis Taming the SQL Beast The recent articles 10 Common Mistakes Java Developers make when Writing SQL and the follow-up, Ten More Mistakes… highlight some... 15 August 2013 3 min read
Richard Morris David Heinemeier Hansson: Geek of the Week Ruby on Rails, the open-source web application framework, grew out of David Heinemeier Hansson's work on Basecamp at 37Signals. It... 07 August 2013 9 min read
Tony Davis Comparing Apples and Pairs A recent study, High Costs and Negative Value of Pair Programming, by Capers Jones, pulls no punches in its assessment... 04 July 2013 3 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
Tony Davis What’s the use of code reuse? All great developers write reusable code, don’t they? Well, maybe, but as with all statements regarding what “great” developers do... 06 June 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis Cheating on Technical Debt One bad practice guaranteed to cause dismay amongst your colleagues is passing on technical debt without full disclosure. There could... 23 May 2013 3 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
