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... 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... 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... 09 April 2015 10 min read
Bob Cramblitt Red Gate’s new Scary DBA: Coming to a town near you Grant Fritchey, The Scary DBA, has now taken the leap from being a Simple-Talk author and FoRG(Friend of Red Gate)... 16 February 2011 5 min read
Corrin Lakeland Snapper’s Sweet Source Control Corrin Lakeland's busy role as a Data Manager includes supervising the work of all database development. Although he was already... 12 October 2010 6 min read
Richard Morris Ted Krueger: DBA of the Day Ted Krueger is well known for his 'Less-Than Dot' website. He is a SQL Server MVP who has been working... 15 September 2010 12 min read
Richard Morris Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell: Geeks of the Week Learning .NET doesn't have to be dull: not when there are geeks like like Carl Fraklin and Richard Campbell with... 13 September 2010 12 min read
Richard Morris Josef Richberg: DBA of the Day As the winner of the Exceptional DBA Awards 2010 is announced, we take a moment to recognize last year's winner... 20 August 2010 15 min read
Bob Cramblitt Tracy Hamlin, Exceptional DBA of 2010, on what it means to go the extra mile Tracy Hamlin has been elected by judges and the SQL Server community as the Exceptional DBA of 2010. The annual... 18 August 2010 6 min read
Richard Morris Roy Fielding: Geek of the Week Almost certainly, you use the results of Roy Fielding's work every day. After all, he was one of the principal... 02 August 2010 14 min read
Bob Cramblitt Reinventing the Exchange email archiver If you could design an Exchange email archiver from scratch, what would you do differently and how would you bring... 19 July 2010 6 min read
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 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 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
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
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
