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
Tony Davis IT Admin for Thrill Seekers A developer suggested to me recently that the life of the DBA was, surely, a dull one. My first reaction... 27 April 2012 3 min read
Richard Morris Peldi Guilizzoni: Geek of the Week Peldi is one of the most likeable of the new hybrid IT generation; part entrepreneur, part geek. Balsamiq is Peldi's... 24 April 2012 15 min read
Tony Davis Going Metro When it was announced, I confess was somewhat surprised by the striking new “Metro” User Interface for Windows 8, based... 13 April 2012 3 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 Geek of the Week: Tom Igoe Arduino is cheap and simple way that desktop computers can monitor the physical world, and control devices. It is an... 30 March 2012 15 min read
Tony Davis Concurrent Affairs I once wrote an editorial, multi-core mania, on the conundrum of ever-increasing numbers of processor cores, but without the concurrent... 16 March 2012 3 min read
Tony Davis A Community Cure for a String Splitting Headache A heartwarming tale of dogged perseverance and Community collaboration to solve some SQL Server string-related headaches. Michael J Swart posted... 02 March 2012 2 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 Geek of the Week: Ola Bini Ola Bini is one of the core developers for JRuby, and creator of the JvYAML and RbYAML projects. He is... 08 February 2012 11 min read
