Tony Davis To Not CI to Eye Many developers, including Troy Hunt, here on Simple-Talk, have argued persuasively that each database developer in a team needs to... 03 February 2012 3 min read
Richard Morris Seth Godin: Big in the IT Business Seth Godin has transformed our understanding of marketing in IT. He invented the concept of 'permission marketing', sees the end... 02 February 2012 10 min read
Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Don Syme With the arrival of F# 3.0 Microsoft announced a wide range of improvements such as type providers that made F#... 01 February 2012 9 min read
Richard Morris Scott Shaw: DBA of the Day Scott Shaw was one of the finalists to the 2011 Exceptional DBA Award (XDBA). The award was founded in 2008... 24 January 2012 13 min read
Richard Morris Chuck Moore on the Lost Art of Keeping It Simple Chuck Moore is still the radical thinker of Information Technology, After an astonishing career designing languages (e.g. FORTH), browser-based computers,... 18 January 2012 13 min read
Alamzeb Khan Pakistan: Cyber Warfare and Internet Hacking The extent of malicious hacking on the internet, in pursuit of political or economic advantage, crime or just plain mischief,... 17 January 2012 10 min read
Richard Morris The Marmite or Miracle Whip of Computer Languages What is it about C++ that makes it one of the most important computer languages for systems work, yet so... 03 January 2012 17 min read
Tony Davis A suitable present, whatever one’s past Even DBAs have devoted aunts. They are probably also oblivious to the mental anguish they cause to their relatives in... 15 December 2011 2 min read
Richard Morris Jeff Moden: DBA of the Day Jeff Moden's election to the Exceptional DBA of the Year award for 2011 was a popular one. Although all the... 24 November 2011 17 min read
Richard Morris Michael Pilato: Geek of the Week For a large number of .NET developers, Subversion is Source Control. The book they go to to find out how... 08 November 2011 16 min read
Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Linus Torvalds For Windows programmers, Linus Torvalds work has suddenly become relevant. No, we don't mean Linux, but Git. This distributed Source... 17 October 2011 15 min read
Tony Davis Time for a rethink on SQL CLR? It is almost seven years since Microsoft announced the sensational news that, with their new SQL Server 2005, you could... 29 September 2011 4 min read
Richard Morris Jez Humble: Geek of the Week Jez Humble and David Farley achieved fame through a book that tackled the least glamorous but most intricate part of... 28 September 2011 17 min read
Tony Davis SQL Code Reuse: teaching a dog new tricks Developers, by every natural instinct and training, strive to make their code reusable and generic. Dissuading them from doing so,... 01 September 2011 4 min read
Tony Davis A DBA’s best friend is his tempdb There is a saying amongst welfare agencies that one can tell how well a family is functioning by looking at... 18 August 2011 3 min read
Andrew Clarke DevOps: Nostrums or Knowledge? There are good reasons for the management of the release of applications. Businesses see it as a safety-net to ensure... 16 August 2011 3 min read
Tony Davis Bug Me Not Bug metrics are a notoriously erratic way to judge the performance of a development team and project, but despite this... 08 July 2011 4 min read
Learn SQL Server Chris Shaw in Learn SQL Server Building Your DBA Skillset As a DBA and hiring manager, Chris Shaw has been on those sides of the recruitement process. As an MVP... 06 July 2011 23 min read
Andrew Clarke Cloud Cuckoo Land Does it strike you odd that, despite the outage of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Block Storage on... 10 May 2011 3 min read
Richard Morris Benjamin Pollack: Geek of the Week Benjamin Pollack is well known for his work on Fog Creek Copilot, and Kiln. He is famous amongst young geeks... 06 May 2011 22 min read
