It is that time of year once more to vote for the Simple-Talk awards. These have been awarded annually for some years now and have grown from being initially an ‘Editor’s choice’, and have come a long way from their origins in a heated discussion in a smoke-filled room in the Waggon and Horses pub. This year as a change, we invited the Friends of Redgate to provide the nominations. We then selected their most popular nominations for your votes. Although we’ve tried to make every nomination specific to the past year, (e.g. books actually published in the past year) we’ve allowed some latitude. For voting, it is more important to make the award to the nomination that was most important for you in the past year.

It has irked us, here on Simple-Talk, that the IT industry are so shy in giving out awards. You hear of award-winning architects and artists, but what about the award-winning bloggers and database pundits?

Awards are worthless without a popular vote, and this is where we rely on you, the good readers of Simple-Talk to turn these awards into popular acclamation that the winner can rightly boast about.

To place your vote, have a look through the nominations and, when you’ve made up your mind click on the SurveyMonkey poll to cast your votes. We’ll be announcing the winners in the next Simple-Talk newsletter and on Twitter @Simple_Talk! You’ve got two weeks to deliberate as voting closes on Wednesday April 6th.

The Nominations:

Reached a decision? Cast your votes here! Remember, voting closes on April 6th.