Richard Morris Larry Gonick: Geek of the Week Cartoonist, mathematician, historian and environmentalist. Larry Gonick proved that learning could be fun by producing a wide range of educational... 08 January 2009 11 min read
TJay Belt Can Twitter Help your Professional Development? At PASS this year, there was a great deal of 'twittering' going on. Effectively, the attendants were able to broadcast... 16 December 2008 14 min read
Richard Morris Bjarne Stroustrup: Geek of the Week Without Bjarne Stroustrup, object-oriented programming would have taken much longer to gain mainstream acceptance. Bjarne wrote and popularised 'C with... 12 December 2008 16 min read
Richard Morris Verity Stob: Geek of the Week Real geeks read Verity Stob. Verity writes her painfully funny invective from a powerful advantage, she is a geek herself,... 27 November 2008 16 min read
Stephan Onisick Taking Back Control of your IT Career It can, and does, happen during the average IT career. Suddenly you have lost your job. It is a time... 06 November 2008 22 min read
Brad McGehee Tech-Fest of Champions: How to run a community IT conference Everybody who attended seems to speak well of the IndyTechFest. It is a great example of how to organise a... 04 November 2008 15 min read
Phil Factor The Data Center that Exploded A while back, in a Simple-Talk editorial meeting, someone bet Phil that he couldn't come up with a Halloween story.... 28 October 2008 10 min read
Richard Morris ‘Peli’ de Halleux: Geek of the Week It is extraordinary how much 'Peli' has achieved in a short space of time. Here, our choice for Geek of... 21 October 2008 9 min read
Richard Morris Kalen Delaney: Geek of the Week Kalen Delaney has been involved in SQL Server from the beginning. Her talks and her writings are always interesting but,... 16 September 2008 14 min read
Brian Harris Chrome Browser: A Novel Approach to Language As a Technical Author, one of the most important tasks that you face is to make the language of applications... 16 September 2008 5 min read
Joe Webb Creating Technical Presentations Making a technical presentation is like being interviewed. It is not a skill that you are likely to need often,... 01 September 2008 21 min read
Bob Cramblitt The Future of Reflector Simple Talk asked freelance writer Bob Cramblitt to sit down with the two people behind the agreement that Red Gate... 20 August 2008 5 min read
Richard Morris Andrew Tanenbaum: Geek of the Week Andrew Tanenbaum has had an immense influence on the way that operating systems are designed. He provided the inspiration for... 14 August 2008 9 min read
Richard Morris Ross Anderson: Geek of the Week Professor Ross Anderson is one of the foremost experts in Computer Security in the world. He has published widely on... 31 July 2008 13 min read
Richard Morris Linus Torvalds: Geek of the Week Linus Torvalds is remarkable, not only for being the technical genius who wrote Linux, but for then being able to... 17 July 2008 23 min read
Richard Morris Dr Richard Hipp, Geek of the Week Simple-Talk's Geek of the Week is Dr Richard Hipp. His code is probably running on your PC, and running completely... 04 July 2008 13 min read
Anna Larjomaa The First Business Application Programmer David Caminer, who died on June 19th must surely be the First Business Application Programmer. He invented the software concepts... 02 July 2008 10 min read
Richard Morris Tim Berners-Lee, Geek of the Week We interview Simple-Talk's Geek of the Week, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA. , ranked first in... 20 June 2008 11 min read
Richard Morris Risking your Reputation IT companies sometimes don't survive an incident that damages their reputation. Often, when happenstance brings a commercial disaster, businesses make... 27 May 2008 11 min read
Phil Factor The Time Bomb Phil cheerfully admits to his fair share of accidental IT disasters. His experiences some time ago with the Time Bomb,... 29 April 2008 8 min read
