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 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
Richard Morris Luca Cardelli: Geek of the Week Luca Cardelli is probably best known for Polyphonic C# and Biocomputing, but he has designed a number of experimental languages... 02 September 2009 7 min read
Richard Morris Chuck Moore: Geek of the Week Charles Moore is one of the greatest ever programmers. The 'Forth' language he invented is still in use today, particularly... 05 August 2009 13 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
