Tony Davis So it comes to PASS… How does your company gauge the benefit of attending a technical conference? What’s the best change you made as a... 02 November 2012 2 min read
Richard Morris Jeffrey Snover: Geek of the Week PowerShell has radically improved the ease of monitoring and adminstering Windows-based servers, and automating routine processes. The visionary leader of... 23 October 2012 10 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
Tony Davis Data Model Dissonance So often at the start of the development of database applications, there is a premature rush to the keyboard. Unless,... 12 October 2012 3 min read
Richard Morris Bertrand Meyer: Geek of the Week Bertrand Meyer, the author of 'Object-oriented Software Construction', renowned teacher, and designer of the Eiffel programming language, believes in simple... 17 September 2012 13 min read
Tony Davis Monitoring the Application alongside SQL Server Sometimes, on Simple-Talk, it takes a while to spot strange and unexpected patterns of user activity, or small bugs. For... 14 September 2012 3 min read
Richard Morris Meredith Ryan: DBA of the Day Meredith Ryan - DBA at the Bell Group -was elected by judges and the SQL Server community as the Exceptional... 14 September 2012 12 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
Tony Davis Fear of the Unknown Codebase It is inevitable that anyone who inherits responsibility for an application will experience that feeling of nagging apprehension. Some signs... 17 August 2012 2 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
Tony Davis Automating Sanity Checks for Database Deployments Although development teams are inching closer toward their ideal of a fully automated build and deployment strategy for their applications,... 02 August 2012 3 min read
Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Niklaus Wirth When looking for a suitable Geek of the Week, we wondered whether a suitable candidate might be the man who... 26 July 2012 9 min read
Richard Morris Ron Gruner: Geek of the Week Ron Gruner helped to crate some of the best of Data General's Minicomputers, and then co-founded Alliant, producer of the... 25 July 2012 12 min read
Richard Morris Kohsuke Kawaguchi: Geek of the Week Jenkins, formerly called Hudson, is an open-source server-based Continuous Integration tool that works with all the major Source Control Management... 17 July 2012 11 min read
Tony Davis When done is not done Most developers and DBAs will know what it’s like to be asked to do “a quick tidy up” on a... 05 July 2012 3 min read
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
