Richard Morris Richard Stallman: Geek of the Week Many famous geeks work away at their programs without considering the wider implications of what they, and others, are doing.... 20 July 2009 12 min read
Tony Davis Working within Constraints There are many good reasons for building your data integrity logic into constraints. When such business rules become part of... 09 July 2009 3 min read
Richard Morris Niklaus Wirth: Geek of the Week It is difficult to begin to estimate the huge extent of the contribution that Niklaus Wirth has made to IT... 02 July 2009 11 min read
Tony Davis The Fall and Rise of Log Shipping When Database Mirroring was introduced in SQL Server 2005, it seemed reasonable to assume that log shipping would gradually go... 25 June 2009 3 min read
Phil Factor To Boldly Ask IT for Development Work Phil has always been mystified by the way that, in Science-Fiction films, the crew of space-ships are able to reprogram... 22 June 2009 10 min read
Richard Morris Craig Newmark: Geek of the Week Occasionally, readers of Simple-Talk will ask quizzically if the 'Geek of the Week' that the editors have chosen really is... 15 June 2009 9 min read
Karla Kay Remail Thinking of Setting up a SQL Server Users Group? The work of setting up a SQL Users Group isn't always easy, but, as Karla relates, it can be a... 03 June 2009 11 min read
Richard Morris Ken Blanchard meets the One Minute Reporter With economic doom and gloom all around him, Richard Morris decides to seek advice before starting a business. Who better,... 28 May 2009 7 min read
Phil Factor The Book ‘Confessions of an IT Manager’ For three and a half years, the 'Confessions of an IT Manager', by Phil Factor, have been a distinctive part... 27 May 2009 7 min read
Tony Davis One Shell to Rule Them All (and in the darkness bind them) It has been obvious for a while that PowerShell 2 was going to be strongly supported as the natural scripting... 14 May 2009 3 min read
Richard Morris Marc Wick: Geek of the Week Marc Wick is the genius behind GeoNames, the free Web Service that powers a number of popular GPS applications and... 06 May 2009 8 min read
Tony Davis Why Most Developers are Rubbish at Estimating Recently, a local builder handed me an estimate for some construction work on my home. Once my eyes had stopped... 28 April 2009 3 min read
Tony Davis What is "maintainable code"? “Maintainable code” does not mean the same thing to a DBA as it does to a developer. Production Support staff... 14 April 2009 3 min read
Richard Morris Sarah Lacey on The Rise of Web 2.0 Sarah Lacy's commentary on the IT Industry for BusinessWeek is widely read and causes polarised opinions. She is a skilled... 14 April 2009 14 min read
Tony Davis Multi-core Mania When the market is slack, nothing succeeds better at tightening it up than promoting serial group-panic within the community. As... 31 March 2009 3 min read
David Craig Making IT Work in the Public Sector The Information Technology Reform Act, commonly known as the 'Clinger-Cohen' act, spelled the end of the 'Wild West days of... 30 March 2009 19 min read
Richard Morris Anders Hejlsberg: Geek of the Week Anders Hejlsberg, the creative genius behind C#, and much of the .NET framework, had already been famous for sixteen years... 19 March 2009 10 min read
Richard Morris Gail Shaw: Geek of the Week Gail Shaw, the fabled 'gilamonster', earned her MVP, and the gratitude of a great number of SQL Server professional seeking... 09 March 2009 12 min read
Tony Davis The Greasy Pole Programmers often have an old-fashioned view of their trade. They enter the profession imagining that they will spend most of... 04 March 2009 3 min read
Richard Morris Simon Sabin Says SQLBits SQLBits is the largest SQL Server conference in Europe. Because it is held on a Saturday, and is free, it... 03 March 2009 9 min read
