Richard Morris Erland Sommarskog: DBA of the Day Erland is best known for his famous SQL Server site http://www.sommarskog.se/. It is plain, it has eight articles in it,... 26 May 2010 14 min read
Richard Morris Brian Kernighan: Geek of the Week When anyone mentions 'Kernighan and Ritchie', we all know what they are referring to: that brief book that introduced the... 19 May 2010 13 min read
Richard Morris Chuck Esterbrook: Geek of the Week The Cobra Programming Language is an exciting new general-purpose Open-source language for .NET or Mono, which features unit tests, contracts,... 26 April 2010 13 min read
Richard Morris Cristina Cifuentes: Geek of the Week Cristina Cifuentes was already well-known for her work on decompilers before she took the development of Sun Microsystems 'Parfait' bug-checking... 30 March 2010 13 min read
Richard Morris Doug Crockford: Geek of the Week Doug Crockford is the man behind JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). He is a well-known critic of XML and guides the... 17 March 2010 9 min read
Richard Morris Rich Hickey: Geek of the Week With Clojure soon to be ported to the .NET framework, as ClojureCLR, we felt that the time had come to... 02 March 2010 8 min read
Richard Morris Bruce Schneier: Geek of the Week If one were to close one's eyes and imagine a BT Executive, one would never conjure up Bruce Schneier. He... 16 February 2010 12 min read
Richard Morris Peter Norvig: Geek of the Week It's likely that you are already using the results of Peter Norvig's work every day, if you search the internet... 03 February 2010 11 min read
Richard Morris Don Syme: Geek of the Week It came as a surprise to many of us when Microsoft pulled from it's hat a rabbit in the form... 19 January 2010 10 min read
Richard Morris Robin Milner: Geek of the Week Although Robin Milner is best known for creating ML, which has evolved into Microsoft's new F# language, he would, had... 14 January 2010 11 min read
Richard Morris Itzik Ben-Gan: DBA of the Day Itzik Ben-Gan, who was one of our first Geeks of the Week in 2005, is so well known and popular... 06 January 2010 17 min read
Richard Morris Guillaume Laforge: Geek of the Week Guillaume Laforge is the project manager for the development of Groovy and Grails, and the creative force behind it. He... 21 December 2009 12 min read
Richard Morris Donald Knuth: Geek of the Week Donald Knuth is an extraordinary man. As well as inventing 'Literate Programming' and writing the most important textbook on programming... 26 November 2009 14 min read
Richard Morris Simon Peyton Jones: Geek of the Week Simon Peyton Jones is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research's lab in Cambridge. Although he is best known as the... 13 November 2009 11 min read
Richard Morris Interview with the Scary DBA – Grant Fritchey For our first feature on working DBAs and their lives, we chose Grant Fritchey, the self-styled Scary DBA, who has been... 30 October 2009 12 min read
Richard Morris Tucker Taft: Geek of the Week What do military networks and a 19th Century Difference Engine have in common? Tucker Taft; industry leader in compiler construction... 28 October 2009 15 min read
Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Joe Celko Joe Celko, the Database Developer and writer from Austin Texas, is not a man to mince his words. His encyclopedic... 16 October 2009 12 min read
Richard Morris Stephen Curtis Johnson: Geek of the Week Stephen Johnson, one of the team that developed UNIX, can claim to be the man who originally wrote the software... 01 October 2009 11 min read
Richard Morris Walter Bright: Geek of the Week After developing the first native C++ compiler, the Zortech C++, and writing the Symantec Java compiler, Walter Bright created D... 01 October 2009 8 min read
Richard Morris Alan Kay: Geek of the Week The development of Object-oriented programming, the windowing User-interface, Ethernet and the Laptop all had essential contributions from a brilliant, visionary,... 14 September 2009 11 min read
