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by Richard Morris | 17 July 2008 |

54 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...

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...

The Wrong Fabia

by Phil Factor | 04 July 2008 |

15 comments |

There is often more than a twinge of embarrassment when an Email goes astray, and is received by the wrong person. Phil remembers an occasion when it nearly ended a career, but somehow, ironically, changed it for the better. Read more...

TITLE	PUBLISHED	VOTES
The First Business Application Programmer	02 July 2008	4 votes

Tim Berners-Lee, Geek of the Week	20 June 2008	41 votes

The Walrus and the Manager	05 June 2008	29 votes

Risking your Reputation	27 May 2008	20 votes

The Time Bomb	29 April 2008	49 votes

The Burning Men - The IT drug habit	29 April 2008	49 votes

The Paradox of the Middle Man	23 April 2008	9 votes

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