Tony Davis Good beer in unexpected places As part of an occasional series on odd places to get good beer, on Friday last week Red Gate sent... 07 July 2006 2 min read
Phil Factor The Ghost in the Machine I have always felt rather second-rate as an IT pundit as I have yet to introduce my own TLA (Three-letter... 27 June 2006 9 min read
Dominick Reed Creating Usable Applications If I had a penny for every person who said "usability is just common sense", I'd have a pretty reasonable... 21 June 2006 15 min read
Tony Davis Tech Ed 2006 Snippets: FoxPro lives In the press room, Mary Jo Foley (from Microsoft Watch) was expounding on how hard it was to predict which... 14 June 2006 1 min read
Tony Davis Tech Ed 2006: Meeting good people on Day 3 I met a lot of good people today at Tech Ed yesterday. I know that may seem a rather trite... 14 June 2006 3 min read
Tony Davis Tech Ed 20006: pre-match warm up As an Englishman I’m well used to the experience of leaving some gloriously sun-kissed location and returning home to greyness... 11 June 2006 2 min read
Tony Davis Simple Talk, Live from Tech Ed Boston Tech Ed in Boston is just around the corner and the Red Gate offices are a feverish hive of activity... 07 June 2006 2 min read
Learn SQL Server Douglas Reilly in Learn SQL Server SQL Server and .NET training and career development Part 3 How do you keep your skills current? How will you prepare yourself for what you will be doing 5 years... 07 June 2006 11 min read
Tony Davis Beer, SQL Server and .NET There is a line in the book “London Fields” where the main character is asked why he only drinks lager... 26 May 2006 3 min read
Phil Factor Talking Technical Developers, programmers and designers tend to be deeply geeky types, immersed in the minutiae of the technology. In stark contrast,... 26 May 2006 5 min read
Tony Davis SQL Bundle 5: the developer’s perspective Last month saw the release of the SQL Bundle 5. Here, some key members of the Red Gate development team... 17 May 2006 11 min read
Phil Factor Betting on Promotion The process of appointing managers in large IT department is shrouded in mystery. The bewilderingly random and illogical nature of... 09 May 2006 7 min read
Phil Factor The Writing on the Wall Phil Factor offers an intriguing theory on why so many, hugely complex, government IT projects fail. Is it because there... 27 April 2006 7 min read
Helen Joyce Driving up software quality – the role of the tester Have you ever wondered what a software tester does? Helen Joyce, test engineer at Red Gate software gives us an... 20 April 2006 7 min read
Matt Stephens Agile Development and ICONIX Software projects fail for all sorts of reasons, although the same reasons crop up over and over again. The ICONIX... 06 April 2006 16 min read
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week – Glenn Johnson Meet Glenn Johnson; he runs Glenn Johnson Technical Training and has just written "Programming Microsoft ADO.NET Applications - Advanced Topics".… 04 April 2006 13 min read
Learn SQL Server Douglas Reilly in Learn SQL Server SQL Server and .NET Training and Career Development (part 2) In Part I of this series, I discussed the role and value of conferences in the career development of SQL... 22 March 2006 15 min read
Phil Factor IT Agencies and the Devil Whenever I worry about how I shall earn a crust when my mental powers start failing, I always console myself... 15 March 2006 10 min read
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week – Tom Moreau "In grad school, I had a temporary assignment as director of the undergrad labs, where I had to manage the... 13 March 2006 13 min read
Douglas Reilly Coming Out as a Cancer Survivor – A Guide for Software Developers A personal perspective on the responsibilities of a cancer-surviving software developer… 06 March 2006 13 min read
