Matt Hilbert Does NoSQL = NoDBA? There's a joke doing the rounds at SQL conferences and seminars: three DBAs walk into a NoSQL bar and leave... 21 October 2014 9 min read
Joe Celko Data Is Crazier than You Think As a society, we have an unrealistic respect for data, especially if it has a decimal point somewhere and uses... 17 October 2014 12 min read
Grzegorz Strzelecki The Role of the Technical Architect in Development What do Technical Architects (TAs) actually do when in a development role? Are they just senior developers 'pushed upstairs' into... 15 October 2014 9 min read
Edward Charbeneau Building a Better NuGet NuGet is the standard package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET. It has transformed the ease of getting... 07 October 2014 7 min read
Robert Young Ninja Immutable Databases 'Immutable' databases operate under the principle that data or objects should not be modified after they are created. Once again... 22 September 2014 13 min read
David Poole DBAs vs Developers: A Sad Tale of Unnecessary Conflict For many developers, does DBA really stand for Don't Bother Asking? David Poole thinks it is time to end the... 26 August 2014 12 min read
Richard Morris Chris Date and the Relational Model Chris Date is famous for his writings on relational theory. At IBM in the seventies, and afterwards, he was a... 22 August 2014 32 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... 19 August 2014 19 min read
Alex Papadimoulis My month with Release! Alex and his team at Inedo are developing a game - inspired by development strategies like Lean, Agile and DevOps... 16 June 2014 7 min read
Dwain Camps Writing Outstanding Proposals Oftentimes you will be forced to learn how to write proposals without a whole lot of help. You can learn,... 20 May 2014 16 min read
Konrad Lukasik Branching and Merging: Ten Pretty-Good Practices In the course of rescuing a development from 'merge misery', it became increasingly apparent that there were a number of... 13 May 2014 10 min read
Mike Mooney What is DevOps really? Ops and Development people are busy, and focussed on their jobs. They have plenty of ideas for improving the whole... 08 May 2014 13 min read
Buck Woody Which New Technology Should I Chase? It is a question that almost anybody working in IT occasionally ask themselves. 'How can I best develop my career... 06 May 2014 18 min read
Hugh Bin-Haad We don’t need Source Control: we’re Database Developers As part of our long-running series of articles where we ask working database developers how database source control improves their... 01 April 2014 7 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... 10 March 2014 10 min read
David Poole Technical Debt and the Cultural Gap Sometimes, technical jargon is often so readily understandable by the technical community that they forget that it may be interpreted... 13 January 2014 13 min read
Dwain Camps Fundamentals of Vendor Management Creating and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with external vendors is one of the pillars of good project management. Dwain Camps... 28 October 2013 15 min read
Dwain Camps The Proposals Conundrum When you work for a small software development (or any services) company, one of the major challenges is to make... 19 September 2013 11 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... 07 August 2013 9 min read
Richard Morris Don Knuth and the Art of Computer Programming: The Interview Fifty years after starting the 'Art of Computer Programming', (TAOCP), Don Knuth is still working hard at the project. He... 11 June 2013 8 min read
