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Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Don Syme
by Richard Morris | 01 February 2012 |
With the arrival of F# 3.0 Microsoft announced a wide range of improvements such as type providers that made F# a viable alternative to their other .NET languages as a general purpose workhorse. So what exactly are type providers, and why are they a killer reason... Read more...
Richard Morris Chuck Moore on the Lost Art of Keeping It Simple
by Richard Morris | 18 January 2012 |  1 comment |
Chuck Moore is still the radical thinker of Information Technology, After an astonishing career designing languages (e.g. FORTH), browser-based computers, CAD systems and CPUs, he is now energetically designing extremely low-powered 'green' multi-processor chips... Read more...
Richard Morris Michael Pilato: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 08 November 2011 |
For a large number of .NET developers, Subversion is Source Control. The book they go to to find out how to use it is O'Reilly's 'Version Control with Subversion'. Both Subversion and the book owe a great deal to the Subversion open source development team,... Read more...
Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Linus Torvalds
by Richard Morris | 17 October 2011 |  2 comments |
For Windows programmers, Linus Torvalds work has suddenly become relevant. No, we don't mean Linux, but Git. This distributed Source Control system now works sweetly as a nut on Windows. We contacted Linus for a second interview; this time to talk mainly about Git,... Read more...
Richard Morris Jez Humble: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 28 September 2011 |  1 comment |
Jez Humble and David Farley achieved fame through a book that tackled the least glamorous but most intricate part of the application development cycle, Deployment. It was no accident that the book achived so much attention, since it was a lively and iconoclastic... Read more...
Richard Morris Benjamin Pollack: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 06 May 2011 |
Benjamin Pollack is well known for his work on Fog Creek Copilot, and Kiln. He is famous amongst young geeks for his role in a documentary film and website 'Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks', which plotted his internship with Fog Creek back in 2005. Read more...
Richard Morris Eric Sink: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 21 April 2011 |  1 comment |
Eric Sink became well-known for his work with the Spyglass browser, which was acquired by Microsoft and morphed into Internet Explorer. Since then, he has succeeded at the difficult double-act of combining programming and the software business. He is living proof... Read more...
Richard Morris Steve Furber: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 28 March 2011 |  1 comment |
Professor Stephen Byram Furber CBE, FRS, FREng was one of the designers of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. The result of his work, the ARM chip, is in most mobile phones, calculators and other low-power electronic devices in the world. At the... Read more...
Richard Morris Rob Pike: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 17 January 2011 |
Rob Pike's contribution to Information Technology has been profound, both through the famous books he co-authored with Brian Kernighan, and his contribution to distributed systems, window systems and concurrency in Unix. Now at Google, his creative skills are in... Read more...
Richard Morris Roland Waddilove: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 21 December 2010 |  1 comment |
A whole generation of British geeks owe a debt of gratitude to Roland Waddilove. He is a journalist with a rare knack of being able to explain complex technical ideas in a very simple way. Many successful developers cut their teeth many years ago on an Atari,... Read more...
Richard Morris Jorge Segarra: DBA of the Day
by Richard Morris | 26 November 2010 |  3 comments |
Jorge Segarra, also known on Twitter as 'SQLChicken', was one of the finalists of the Exceptional DBA award this year. He lives and works in Tampa, Florida. As well as working as a DBA, he's a Hypervisor for the PASS Virtualization Virtual Chapter and chapter leader... Read more...
Richard Morris Kevan Riley: DBA of the Day
by Richard Morris | 18 October 2010 |  5 comments |
When the ASK.SQLServerCentral.com site started, something magical happened. A band of DBA and developer volunteers got together to ensure the very best quality of questions and answers about SQL Server. Kevan was one of them. Through a couple of happy chances, the... Read more...
Richard Morris Dr Byron Cook: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 27 September 2010 |  3 comments |
On moving to Cambridge University after developing the SLAM model checker used by Microsoft's Static Driver Verifier, Dr Bryan Cook's new computer locked up with what turned out to be a faulty driver. The result was TERMINATOR, the first practical tool for... Read more...
Richard Morris Ted Krueger: DBA of the Day
by Richard Morris | 15 September 2010 |
Ted Krueger is well known for his 'Less-Than Dot' website. He is a SQL Server MVP who has been working in development and database administration for over 13 years. He was one of the finalists to the Exceptional DBA of the Year Award for 2010 Read more...
Richard Morris Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell: Geeks of the Week
by Richard Morris | 13 September 2010 |
Learning .NET doesn't have to be dull: not when there are geeks like like Carl Fraklin and Richard Campbell with the wit and ability to talk interestingly about it. If you don't listen to their podcasts on .NET topics, then maybe you're missing out on a great way of... Read more...
Richard Morris Josef Richberg: DBA of the Day
by Richard Morris | 20 August 2010 |
As the winner of the Exceptional DBA Awards 2010 is announced, we take a moment to recognize last year's winner Josef Richberg. We sent Richard Morris to meet Josef to find out what has happened in the past year, and if life has changed for the Exceptional DBA of 2009. Read more...
Richard Morris Grady Booch: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 09 August 2010 |
Grady Booch is probably best known for being one of the original developers of the Unified Modelling Language (UML). He defined much of the way we go about the Object-Oriented analysis of applications. He's also interesting to chat to about programming, as Richard... Read more...
Richard Morris Roy Fielding: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 02 August 2010 |
Almost certainly, you use the results of Roy Fielding's work every day. After all, he was one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification, was active in developing HTML and the URI, defined REST, and remains one of the directors of the Apache Software... Read more...
Richard Morris Don Woods: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 13 July 2010 |
Of all the original thinkers in IT, few are as original or as amusing as Don Woods. INTERCAL, Colossal Cave Adventure, the Jargon file and the New Hackers' Dictionary all owe much to his irresistible brand of humour, and his immense knowledge and experience in IT. Read more...
Richard Morris Tom Kyte: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 24 June 2010 |  2 comments |
Tom Kyte's contribution to the AskTom column and site over ten years has been outstanding. Much of what he says has relevance to all relational databases. His views are straightforward, the discussions he provokes are lively: Not only does he know a frightening... Read more...
Richard Morris Erland Sommarskog: DBA of the Day
by Richard Morris | 26 May 2010 |  8 comments |
Erland is best known for his famous SQL Server site http://www.sommarskog.se/. It is plain, it has eight articles in it, it is short on jokes: However, it is hugely popular and one of the great 'essential' SQL Server sites. We sent Richard Morris to find out more... Read more...
Richard Morris Brian Kernighan: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 19 May 2010 |
When anyone mentions 'Kernighan and Ritchie', we all know what they are referring to: that brief book that introduced the C language to programmers, and set a high standard for all subsequent books on computer languages. Now over thirty years later it is still in... Read more...
Richard Morris Chuck Esterbrook: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 26 April 2010 |  3 comments |
The Cobra Programming Language is an exciting new general-purpose Open-source language for .NET or Mono, which features unit tests, contracts, ‘informative’ asserts, generics, Compile-time nil/null tracking, lambda expressions, closures, list comprehensions and... Read more...
Richard Morris Cristina Cifuentes: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 30 March 2010 |  1 comment |
Cristina Cifuentes was already well-known for her work on decompilers before she took the development of Sun Microsystems 'Parfait' bug-checking application for C/C++ source. Unlike the classic 'Lint', Parfait is careful about avoiding false positives. What is more,... Read more...
Richard Morris Doug Crockford: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 17 March 2010 |  2 comments |
Doug Crockford is the man behind JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). He is a well-known critic of XML and guides the development of Javascript on the ECMA Standards Committee, as well as being the senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo! He is also the author of the... Read more...
Richard Morris Rich Hickey: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 02 March 2010 |  1 comment |
With Clojure soon to be ported to the .NET framework, as ClojureCLR, we felt that the time had come to see what the fuss was all about amongst the Java Geeks. We sent Richard Morris to find out from the creator of Clojure, Rich Hickey. Read more...
Richard Morris Bruce Schneier: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 16 February 2010 |  5 comments |
If one were to close one's eyes and imagine a BT Executive, one would never conjure up Bruce Schneier. He is one of the greatest experts in cryptography, and a well-known mathematician. He even got a brief mention in thebook 'The Da Vinci Code'. He also remains an... Read more...
Richard Morris Peter Norvig: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 03 February 2010 |  1 comment |
It's likely that you are already using the results of Peter Norvig's work every day, if you search the internet with Google. One of the smartest moves that Google ever made was to hire the man who not only was a leading expert in Artificial Intelligence, but was... Read more...
Richard Morris Don Syme: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 19 January 2010 |  2 comments |
It came as a surprise to many of us when Microsoft pulled from it's hat a rabbit in the form of an exciting, radical, language that offers an effective alternative to the Object-oriented orthodoxy. The creative force behind this language, F#, turns out to be a... Read more...
Richard Morris Robin Milner: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 14 January 2010 |  1 comment |
Although Robin Milner is best known for creating ML, which has evolved into Microsoft's new F# language, he would, had this never happened, still be renowned for developing LCF, one of the first tools for automated theorem proving, and for calculus of communicating... Read more...
Richard Morris Itzik Ben-Gan: DBA of the Day
by Richard Morris | 06 January 2010 |
Itzik Ben-Gan, who was one of our first Geeks of the Week in 2005, is so well known and popular because he has all the instincts of a database developer and teacher, as well as being a certified DBA. His books and articles on Transact SQL are memorable because they... Read more...
Richard Morris Guillaume Laforge: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 21 December 2009 |
Guillaume Laforge is the project manager for the development of Groovy and Grails, and the creative force behind it. He has since shown, in a number of projects, how veratile Grails can be for the rapid development of web applications. Groovy is a dynamic language... Read more...
Richard Morris Donald Knuth: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 26 November 2009 |  20 comments |
Donald Knuth is an extraordinary man. As well as inventing 'Literate Programming' and writing the most important textbook on programming algorithms, he is also famous for designing and programming one of the most widely-used digital typesetting systems ever, even... Read more...
Richard Morris Simon Peyton Jones: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 13 November 2009 |
Simon Peyton Jones is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research’s lab in Cambridge. Although he is best known as the developer of the definitive Haskell Compiler, his influence on the development of the new generation of functional languages such as F# has been... Read more...
Richard Morris Interview with the Scary DBA - Grant Fritchey
by Richard Morris | 30 October 2009 |  23 comments |
For our first feature on working DBAs and their lives, we chose Grant Fritchey, the self-styled Scary DBA, who has been so successful in the past year with his books and presentations. How does he manage to pack so much into his life? we sent Richard Morris to find out. Read more...
Richard Morris Tucker Taft: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 28 October 2009 |
What do military networks and a 19th Century Difference Engine have in common? Tucker Taft; industry leader in compiler construction and programming language design, and SoftCheck CTO. Tucker has taught disseminated his encyclopaedic knowledge at Harvard University,... Read more...
Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Joe Celko
by Richard Morris | 16 October 2009 |  12 comments |
Joe Celko, the Database Developer and writer from Austin Texas, is not a man to mince his words. His encyclopedic grasp of SQL and relational Databases in general comes from a mix of academic knowledge and practical experience. In discussions he can be... Read more...
Richard Morris Stephen Curtis Johnson: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 01 October 2009 |  1 comment |
Stephen Johnson, one of the team that developed UNIX, can claim to be the man who originally wrote the software tool that has been the longest continuously advertised and marketed software tool ever, since 1984. Lint for C and C++ was not his only success, though.... Read more...
Richard Morris Walter Bright: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 01 October 2009 |  2 comments |
After developing the first native C++ compiler, the Zortech C++, and writing the Symantec Java compiler, Walter Bright created D (C Done right). He has written a number of commercial compilers for a number of languages, and D is the culmination of everything he has... Read more...
Richard Morris Alan Kay: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 14 September 2009 |  3 comments |
The development of Object-oriented programming, the windowing User-interface, Ethernet and the Laptop all had essential contributions from a brilliant, visionary, former professional Jazz and Rock guitarist. Alan Kay. His second career as a computer scientist led... Read more...
Richard Morris Luca Cardelli: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 02 September 2009 |  4 comments |
Luca Cardelli is probably best known for Polyphonic C# and Biocomputing, but he has designed a number of experimental languages and published a variety of papers on Theoretical Computing subjects such as type theory and operational semantics. He is now Principal... Read more...
Richard Morris Sir Tony Hoare: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 18 August 2009 |  2 comments |
After inventing the QuickSort algorithm, and designing the compiler for the Algol 60 programming language, Tony Hoare went on to apply axiomatic semantics to compiler design and his work and writings have since had a great influence on software engineering, and the... Read more...
Richard Morris Chuck Moore: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 05 August 2009 |  21 comments |
Charles Moore is one of the greatest ever programmers. The 'Forth' language he invented is still in use today, particularly by NASA, and has never been bettered for instrumentation and process control. He still argues persuasively that the only way we can develop... Read more...
Richard Morris Richard Stallman: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 20 July 2009 |  18 comments |
Many famous geeks work away at their programs without considering the wider implications of what they, and others, are doing. Richard Stallman isn't like that. Richard (rms) is one of the great brains behind Linux Distros, as he wrote the GNU compilers and GNU... Read more...
Richard Morris Niklaus Wirth: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 02 July 2009 |  9 comments |
It is difficult to begin to estimate the huge extent of the contribution that Niklaus Wirth has made to IT as it exists today. Although now retired for ten years, he remains a abiding influence on the design of computer languages. It is likely that the first... Read more...
Richard Morris Craig Newmark: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 15 June 2009 |  1 comment |
Occasionally, readers of Simple-Talk will ask quizzically if the 'Geek of the Week' that the editors have chosen really is a true 'geek'. Nobody could ever ask that about Craig Newmark, the founder of the famous website 'CraigsList'. The site is uncompromisingly... Read more...
Richard Morris Marc Wick: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 06 May 2009 |
Marc Wick is the genius behind GeoNames, the free Web Service that powers a number of popular GPS applications and games. It is an open-source database of geographical information that is used by hundreds of applications from iPhone apps to political... Read more...
Richard Morris Anders Hejlsberg: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 19 March 2009 |  14 comments |
Anders Hejlsberg, the creative genius behind C#, and much of the .NET framework, had already been famous for sixteen years as a compiler-writer before he joined Microsoft twelve years ago. His BLS Pascal, Turbo Pascal, and Delphi had revolutionized the way that we... Read more...
Richard Morris Gail Shaw: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 09 March 2009 |  9 comments |
Gail Shaw, the fabled 'gilamonster', earned her MVP, and the gratitude of a great number of SQL Server professional seeking technical help, through her expert forum posts on SQL Server Central. She brings great enthusiasm to everything she does, including SQL... Read more...
Richard Morris Michael Meeks: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 09 February 2009 |  2 comments |
Richard Morris talks to Michael Meeks, a young Geek who has made a huge impact on the quality of Open source software in the past eight years. He is a Cambridge graduate, a committed Christian, and is modest about his impressive achievements. He gives an... Read more...
Richard Morris Larry Gonick: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 08 January 2009 |
Cartoonist, mathematician, historian and environmentalist. Larry Gonick proved that learning could be fun by producing a wide range of educational books, all done as comic strips. Many present-day geeks attribute the awakening of their enthusiasm for science to... Read more...
Richard Morris Bjarne Stroustrup: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 12 December 2008 |  1 comment |
Without Bjarne Stroustrup, object-oriented programming would have taken much longer to gain mainstream acceptance. Bjarne wrote and popularised 'C with classes', later C++, which changed the way that mainstream computer languages worked. It is still the language of... Read more...
Richard Morris Verity Stob: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 27 November 2008 |  7 comments |
Real geeks read Verity Stob. Verity writes her painfully funny invective from a powerful advantage, she is a geek herself, and her humour comes from the pain of every-day life as a programmer. Verity Stob, with her unique, and hilarious, contribution to making our... Read more...
Richard Morris 'Peli' de Halleux: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 21 October 2008 |  3 comments |
It is extraordinary how much 'Peli' has achieved in a short space of time. Here, our choice for Geek of the Week, 'Peli' de Halleux, talks about his contributions to MbUnit, .NET Reflector, QuickGraph and Pex. Read more...
Richard Morris Kalen Delaney: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 16 September 2008 |  6 comments |
Kalen Delaney has been involved in SQL Server from the beginning. Her talks and her writings are always interesting but, most important of all, she was able to successfully take on authorship of the 'Inside SQL Server' series of books from Ron Soukup, and make them... Read more...
Richard Morris Andrew Tanenbaum: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 14 August 2008 |  6 comments |
Andrew Tanenbaum has had an immense influence on the way that operating systems are designed. He provided the inspiration for Linux, in his lightweight kernel Minix, and his classic textbook 'Operating Systems: Design and Implementation' that Linus Torvalds... Read more...
Richard Morris Ross Anderson: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 31 July 2008 |  4 comments |
Professor Ross Anderson is one of the foremost experts in Computer Security in the world. He has published widely on the economics of security. cryptology, formal methods, hardware design, and the robustness of distributed systems in general. He is best known for... Read more...
Richard Morris Linus Torvalds, Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 17 July 2008 |  64 comments |
Linus Torvalds is remarkable, not only for being the technical genius who wrote Linux, but for then being able to inspire and lead an enormous team of people to devote their free time to work on the operating system and bring it to maturity. We sent Richard Morris... Read more...
Richard Morris Dr Richard Hipp, Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 04 July 2008 |  12 comments |
Simple-Talk's Geek of the Week is Dr Richard Hipp. His code is probably running on your PC, and running completely reliably, for he almost single-handedly wrote SQLite, the most widely deployed SQL Database system in the world. Then he put it in the public domain... Read more...
Richard Morris Tim Berners-Lee, Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 20 June 2008 |  6 comments |
We interview Simple-Talk's Geek of the Week, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA. , ranked first in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses, and director of the World Wide Web Consortium. What has he achieved? He invented the World Wide... Read more...
Neil Davidson Rob Malda, Geek of the Week
by Neil Davidson | 18 July 2007 |
Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco and founder of Slashdot, achieves his elevation to being Simple-Talk's Geek of the Week through his unerring instinct for tracking down what is interesting for his Geek community, and through having the wisdom to continue to immerse himself... Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Kirk Haselden
by Douglas Reilly | 07 September 2006 |  8 comments |
Author and SQL Server development manager, Kirk Haselden, talks about SSIS, gruelling interviews on an empty stomach, and his role at Microsoft. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week - Glenn Johnson
by Douglas Reilly | 04 April 2006 |  1 comment |
Meet Glenn Johnson; he runs Glenn Johnson Technical Training and has just written "Programming Microsoft ADO.NET Applications - Advanced Topics". Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week - Tom Moreau
by Douglas Reilly | 13 March 2006 |  1 comment |
"In grad school, I had a temporary assignment as director of the undergrad labs, where I had to manage the grades of 800 students. My predecessor had handled this using a rudimentary Commodore PET program. I re-wrote the program so that it used a very basic DBMS,... Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week - Michael Rys
by Douglas Reilly | 06 February 2006 |  1 comment |
Dr. Michael Rys is the program manager for the SQL Server Engine Team at Microsoft, represents Microsoft on the W3C XQuery Working Group and has a seat on the SQL Standardization committee. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Dave Sussman
by Douglas Reilly | 21 December 2005 |  1 comment | Not rated yet
Dave Sussman is one of the ASP Insiders, and a well-known author and speaker. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Peter DeBetta
by Douglas Reilly | 13 December 2005 |  1 comment |
Peter runs a consulting firm that develops data-driven enterprise solutions, he is also a programming instructor for Wintellect and a frequent speaker on SQL Server and other subjects. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Scott Forsyth
by Douglas Reilly | 29 November 2005 |  1 comment | Not rated yet
Scott is the director of IT for a premier web hosting company called ORCS Web, and has spent a lot of time working on SQL Server 2005 issues related to that business. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Adam Machanic
by Douglas Reilly | 22 November 2005 |  1 comment |
Adam is a Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Certified Professional. He speaks at Code Camps and has just become an independent consultant for SQL Server. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Jim Hoffman
by Douglas Reilly | 09 November 2005 |  1 comment |
Jim Hoffman is chief operating officer of Innovative Health Solutions, a company that creates web-based solutions for healthcare providers. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week - Damian Mehers
by Douglas Reilly | 26 October 2005 |  1 comment | Not rated yet
Damian Mehers created a tool called PromptSQL which brings Intellisense into the SQL Server world. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week - Linchi Shea
by Douglas Reilly | 17 October 2005 |  1 comment |
Linchi works at a major Wall Street firm and is responsible for SQL Server product engineering. He is a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Kent Tegels
by Douglas Reilly | 07 October 2005 |  1 comment |
Kent Tegels is the man behind the Enjoy Every Sandwich blog on sqljunkies.com. He is also an author and an instructor for DevelopMentor. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Gary Mallow
by Douglas Reilly | 13 September 2005 |  1 comment |
Gary is director of a group of developers who build applications, sometimes using .NET and often using Oracle as a database. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Itzik Ben-Gan
by Douglas Reilly | 05 September 2005 |  1 comment |
Itzik Ben-Gan is a writer and mentor, he writes a monthly column for SQL Server Magazine and co-authored Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Richard Hundhausen
by Douglas Reilly | 12 August 2005 |  1 comment | Not rated yet
Richard Hundhausen is an author and trainer, he also speaks at conferences such as VSLive and Tech Ed. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Douglas McDowell
by Douglas Reilly | 05 August 2005 |  1 comment | Not rated yet
Douglas McDowell is the director of operations for business intelligence at Solid Quality Learning, a mentor, solution architect, and project manager.. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week: Rob Howard
by Douglas Reilly | 27 July 2005 |  1 comment |
Rob Howard is the founder of Telligent Systems who make CommunityServer, previously he was part of the Microsoft .Net team. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week - Shawn Wildermuth
by Douglas Reilly | 18 July 2005 |  1 comment | Not rated yet
Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP and consultant based in Atlanta, he has also wrote Pragmatic ADO.NET: Data Access for the Internet World and numerous articles. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week - Bill Vaughn
by Douglas Reilly | 11 July 2005 |  2 comments | Not rated yet
William Vaughn is a well-known author who writes about Visual Basic and database-related topics. He previously worked for Microsoft, and now runs Beta V Corp. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Bill Bach
by Douglas Reilly | 05 July 2005 |  3 comments |
Bill Bach, whose company, Goldstar Software, is perhaps the leading source for training and support for users of Btrieve and Pervasive databases. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week - Bob Beauchemin
by Douglas Reilly | 21 June 2005 |  2 comments |
Bob Beauchemin is a developer who not only writes code and develops databases, but also teaches other developers to create applications and databases, often using the latest Microsoft technologies. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week - Rebecca Riordan
by Douglas Reilly | 08 June 2005 |  1 comment |
Rebecca Riordan has written several books on database design, and understands how to present data for both the database and end users. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week - Don Demsak
by Douglas Reilly | 03 June 2005 |  1 comment |
Don Demsak is a developer and consultant who serves the developer community by his participation in user group activities and Code Camps throughout the area. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week - Wally McClure
by Douglas Reilly | 19 May 2005 |  1 comment |
In addition to being a Microsoft MVP, Wally is an ASP Insider and one of the authors of a new book from Wrox called Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL . Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week - Hilary Cotter
by Douglas Reilly | 11 May 2005 |  1 comment | Not rated yet
An interview with Hilary Cotter, a specialist in SQL Server full-text search and replication. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week - Euan Garden
by Douglas Reilly | 04 May 2005 |  1 comment |
Euan Garden is a Microsoft group program manager for SQL Server, prior to that he spent four years as the manager of Microsoft’s SQL Server Tools development team. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week - Ken Henderson
by Douglas Reilly | 25 April 2005 |  3 comments |
Ken is a consultant who often works for high-profile customers, including the U.S. Navy and Air Force, as well as H&R Block. In addition to books, Ken writes articles covering all aspects of SQL Server. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week - Jim Kyle
by Douglas Reilly | 18 April 2005 |  1 comment |
Jim has been publishing articles related to computers and electronics since at least the early 1960s. He runs a thriving consulting business helping folks repair their Btrieve/Pervasive SQL data files. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Terri Morton
by Douglas Reilly | 11 April 2005 |  1 comment |
Terri Morton is a Senior Programmer/Analyst for MacDirect, a marketing firm in Pennsylvania. She is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET as well as an ASP Insider. Read more...
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