Phil Factor On Training Your IT Manager A keen new manager, with ambitions to make his mark, can cause all sorts of unpleasantness in the workplace. Phil... 23 November 2006 10 min read
Tony Davis PASS 2006: Still giving power to Microsoft people Well, no-one can accuse Microsoft of giving out mixed messages. The framework for Steve Ballmer’s keynote this morning was exactly... 16 November 2006 4 min read
Richard Morris Tales of Corporate Espionage Corporate espionage eats into an organisation's wealth, but Richard Morris explains how corporate detectives are often hired at great cost... 16 November 2006 9 min read
Jesse Liberty Being Out at work Jesse Liberty, MVP and President of Liberty Associates, Inc. discusses the often complex and life-changing decision to come out in... 08 November 2006 11 min read
Tony Davis Simple Talk at SQL PASS I just wanted to provide everyone with a “heads-up” on Simple-Talk’s plans for SQL PASS in Seattle. If you’re at... 06 November 2006 3 min read
Richard Morris Cyber Crime Richard Morris investigates the increasingly sophisticated tactics of an industry that survives and thrives by feeding off the wealth of... 23 October 2006 9 min read
Tim Gorman Bad CaRMa From hope and euphoria, to desperation, firings and the ultimate demise of a company. Tim Gorman charts the rise and... 16 October 2006 33 min read
Richard Morris The CV Detectives As more and more CV fraudsters creep into the technology sector, increasingly covert tactics have to be employed to hunt... 12 October 2006 11 min read
Phil Factor The Yancey Men Ever wondered what the perfect IT director might be like? Phil Factor experimented...… 03 October 2006 10 min read
Damon Armstrong Contract Coding: Ensuring your Client pays up Damon Armstrong learned the hard way that not having a clearly defined project scope or contract can come back to... 26 September 2006 21 min read
Tony Davis The Joy of Simple Talk Editorial Meetings Phil Factor’s recent blog on The Joy of IT Meetings contains a lot of good advice, but if you really... 19 September 2006 2 min read
Phil Factor The Essex Men A band of muscly Essex men take on the geeky IT department in a basketball match - if you think... 14 September 2006 10 min read
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Kirk Haselden Author and SQL Server development manager, Kirk Haselden, talks about SSIS, gruelling interviews on an empty stomach, and his role... 07 September 2006 9 min read
Phil Factor Was Offshoring Responsible for Hamlet? Phil Factor imagines how Hamlet ended up as the play we know and..err..love, with a little help from cost-cutting and... 05 September 2006 8 min read
Jim Fuller XML and RDBMS: 10 years on As we approach the 10-year anniversary of XML, Jim Fuller provides a personal retrospective, focussing on how XML has been... 25 August 2006 10 min read
Tony Davis Developer vs. Tester vs. PM In a recent blog, Todd Bishop highlighted the fact that Microsoft had hired “more than 10,000 people worldwide in the fiscal... 16 August 2006 4 min read
Phil Factor If IT had been responsible for the Creation In which Phil Factor takes the liberty of retelling the Creation story to make it 'relevant' to the modern IT... 09 August 2006 7 min read
Adrian Furnham Cultivating Creativity in your IT team Professor of Psychology, Adrian Furnham, discusses whether or not you can teach your IT team to be creative.… 25 July 2006 4 min read
Phil Factor The Whipping Boy Talented and highly-valued IT professional or convenient corporate whipping boy? Phil Factor walks the line...… 21 July 2006 10 min read
Tony Davis Beer and victory celebrations During the recent World Cup a couple of my friends in the US sent me this clip from an English... 12 July 2006 3 min read
