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by Richard Morris | 02 July 2009 |

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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...

Craig Newmark: Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 15 June 2009 |

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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...

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...

Anders Hejlsberg: Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 19 March 2009 |

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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...

Gail Shaw: Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 09 March 2009 |

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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...

Michael Meeks: Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 09 February 2009 |

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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...

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...

Bjarne Stroustrup: Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 12 December 2008 |

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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...

Verity Stob: Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 27 November 2008 |

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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...

'Peli' de Halleux: Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 21 October 2008 |

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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...

Kalen Delaney: Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 16 September 2008 |

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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...

Andrew Tanenbaum: Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 14 August 2008 |

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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...

Ross Anderson: Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 31 July 2008 |

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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...

Linus Torvalds, Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 17 July 2008 |

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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...

Dr Richard Hipp, Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 04 July 2008 |

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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...

Tim Berners-Lee, Geek of the Week

by Richard Morris | 20 June 2008 |

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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...

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...

Database Geek of the Week: Kirk Haselden

by Douglas Reilly | 07 September 2006 |

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Author and SQL Server development manager, Kirk Haselden, talks about SSIS, gruelling interviews on an empty stomach, and his role at Microsoft. Read more...

Database Geek of the Week - Glenn Johnson

by Douglas Reilly | 04 April 2006 |

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Meet Glenn Johnson; he runs Glenn Johnson Technical Training and has just written "Programming Microsoft ADO.NET Applications - Advanced Topics". Read more...

Database Geek of the Week - Tom Moreau

by Douglas Reilly | 13 March 2006 |

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"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...

Database Geek of the Week - Michael Rys

by Douglas Reilly | 06 February 2006 |

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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...

Database Geek of the Week: Dave Sussman

by Douglas Reilly | 21 December 2005 |

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Dave Sussman is one of the ASP Insiders, and a well-known author and speaker. Read more...

Database Geek of the Week: Peter DeBetta

by Douglas Reilly | 13 December 2005 |

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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...

Database Geek of the Week: Scott Forsyth

by Douglas Reilly | 29 November 2005 |

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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...

Database Geek of the Week: Adam Machanic

by Douglas Reilly | 22 November 2005 |

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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...

Database Geek of the Week: Jim Hoffman

by Douglas Reilly | 09 November 2005 |

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Jim Hoffman is chief operating officer of Innovative Health Solutions, a company that creates web-based solutions for healthcare providers. Read more...

Database Geek of the Week - Damian Mehers

by Douglas Reilly | 26 October 2005 |

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Damian Mehers created a tool called PromptSQL which brings Intellisense into the SQL Server world. Read more...

Database Geek of the Week - Linchi Shea

by Douglas Reilly | 17 October 2005 |

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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...

Database Geek of the Week: Kent Tegels

by Douglas Reilly | 07 October 2005 |

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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...

Database Geek of the Week: Gary Mallow

by Douglas Reilly | 13 September 2005 |

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Gary is director of a group of developers who build applications, sometimes using .NET and often using Oracle as a database. Read more...

Database Geek of the Week: Itzik Ben-Gan

by Douglas Reilly | 05 September 2005 |

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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...

Database Geek of the Week: Richard Hundhausen

by Douglas Reilly | 12 August 2005 |

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Richard Hundhausen is an author and trainer, he also speaks at conferences such as VSLive and Tech Ed. Read more...

Database Geek of the Week: Douglas McDowell

by Douglas Reilly | 05 August 2005 |

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Douglas McDowell is the director of operations for business intelligence at Solid Quality Learning, a mentor, solution architect, and project manager.. Read more...

Geek of the Week: Rob Howard

by Douglas Reilly | 27 July 2005 |

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Rob Howard is the founder of Telligent Systems who make CommunityServer, previously he was part of the Microsoft .Net team. Read more...

Geek of the Week - Shawn Wildermuth

by Douglas Reilly | 18 July 2005 |

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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...

Geek of the Week - Bill Vaughn

by Douglas Reilly | 11 July 2005 |

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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...

Database Geek of the Week: Bill Bach

by Douglas Reilly | 05 July 2005 |

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Bill Bach, whose company, Goldstar Software, is perhaps the leading source for training and support for users of Btrieve and Pervasive databases. Read more...

Geek of the Week - Bob Beauchemin

by Douglas Reilly | 21 June 2005 |

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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...

Geek of the Week - Rebecca Riordan

by Douglas Reilly | 08 June 2005 |

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Rebecca Riordan has written several books on database design, and understands how to present data for both the database and end users. Read more...

Geek of the Week - Don Demsak

by Douglas Reilly | 03 June 2005 |

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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...

Geek of the Week - Wally McClure

by Douglas Reilly | 19 May 2005 |

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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...

Database Geek of the Week - Hilary Cotter

by Douglas Reilly | 11 May 2005 |

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An interview with Hilary Cotter, a specialist in SQL Server full-text search and replication. Read more...

Geek of the Week - Euan Garden

by Douglas Reilly | 04 May 2005 |

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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...

Geek of the Week - Ken Henderson

by Douglas Reilly | 25 April 2005 |

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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...

Geek of the Week - Jim Kyle

by Douglas Reilly | 18 April 2005 |

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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...

Database Geek of the Week: Terri Morton

by Douglas Reilly | 11 April 2005 |

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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...