Richard Morris Clive Sinclair: Geek of the Week Although most of the geeks of the IT industry are famous for their software, it was the geeky entrepreneurs that changed society by bringing cheap... 21 January 2016 9 min read
Richard Morris Chet Ramey: Geek of the Week The BASH shell is the most popular UNIX command-line scriptable shell. It became the inspiration for PowerShell. As with so many standard components of the... 14 December 2015 10 min read
Richard Morris Philip Greenspun: Geek of the Week Philip Greenspun is probably best known to other geeks for his Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad... 14 July 2015 19 min read
Richard Morris Alan Cooper: Geek of the Week Alan Cooper helped to debug the most widely-used PC language of the late seventies and early eighties, BASIC-E, and, with Keith Parsons, developed C-BASIC. He... 15 April 2015 14 min read
Richard Morris Swizec Teller : Geek of the Week Why do programmers work best at night? Is this related to the idea that drinking alcohol improves cognitive ability? Is programming a young person's game?... 09 April 2015 10 min read
Richard Morris Conrad Wolfram: Geek of the Week Conrad Wolfram is the 'younger Wolfram' of Wolfram Research, the company behind Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica. He wants to transform the way in which we engage... 06 February 2015 10 min read
Richard Morris Bjarne Stroustrup, and Programmers With Class Bjarne Stroustrup devised C++ or 'C with Classes' in 1978. It has evolved a great deal over the decades and and it is still being... 19 August 2014 19 min read
Richard Morris Paul Randal: Geek of the Week Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp, together with their small team of experts at SQLSkills.com, dominate the high-end training and consultancy for SQL Server. They help... 10 March 2014 10 min read
Richard Morris David Heinemeier Hansson: Geek of the Week Ruby on Rails, the open-source web application framework, grew out of David Heinemeier Hansson's work on Basecamp at 37Signals. It is now so popular with... 07 August 2013 9 min read
Richard Morris Bill Baker: Geek of the Week Bill Baker had a considerable influence on the way that SQL Server evolved to deliver reporting services and business intelligence. Until 2008, Bill Baker headed... 04 December 2012 8 min read
Richard Morris Jeffrey Snover: Geek of the Week PowerShell has radically improved the ease of monitoring and adminstering Windows-based servers, and automating routine processes. The visionary leader of this project is Jeffery Snover,... 23 October 2012 10 min read
Richard Morris Bertrand Meyer: Geek of the Week Bertrand Meyer, the author of 'Object-oriented Software Construction', renowned teacher, and designer of the Eiffel programming language, believes in simple elegant computer languages. Java, C#... 17 September 2012 13 min read
Richard Morris Meredith Ryan: DBA of the Day Meredith Ryan - DBA at the Bell Group -was elected by judges and the SQL Server community as the Exceptional DBA of 2012. So who... 14 September 2012 12 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 pioneered structured programming, invented modular... 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 first parallel supercomputer that was... 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 (SCM) tools including TFS, and... 17 July 2012 11 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 creation, a tool for creating... 24 April 2012 15 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 open-source platform based on a... 30 March 2012 15 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 also well known for his... 08 February 2012 11 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# a viable alternative to their... 01 February 2012 9 min read
