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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Personal Reading List: 1Q2014

My personal reading list for January, February, and March 2014. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Agile Data Warehouse Design: Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schema, by Lawrence Corr and Jim Stagnitto, DecisionOne Press, 2011. Common Errors in Statistics and How to

Current Print Subscriptions: 4Q2013

My subscriptions to print periodicals as of October, November, and December 2013. Update: * Discontinued Information Management * Discontinued Consulting * Restarted Wired after several segmented subscriptions since 1994 Computerworld * Information Technology magazine. * Weekly. Online version available here. The Economist * Business, political and literary newsweekly. * Weekly. Online version available here. IEEE Spectrum * Technology

No Fluff Just Stuff 2013 Day 3:Gittin' Git

Gittin' Git (Raju Gandhi) November 10, 2013: 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM From the conference materials: Git, at it's core, leverages a relatively simple data structure to maintain history. In this session we will take a look at this data-structure, which in turn will give us

No Fluff Just Stuff 2013 Day 3:Simulation Testing with Simulant

Simulation Testing with Simulant (Stuart Halloway) November 10, 2013: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM From the conference materials: Simulation allows a rigorous, scalable, and reproducible approach to testing. The separation of concerns, and the use of a versioned, time-aware database, give simulation great power. This talk will introduce simulation

New Book Review: "No Better Time"

New book review for No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet, by Molly Knight Raskin, Da Capo Press, 2013, reposted here: The back cover description of this book as "a riveting personal and high-tech story, with a heartbreaking 9/11

Agile Wall Board Hacks: Heat Map

Early this year, I set up a traditional agile wall board for my last client project, and this post is a modified and expanded version of an internal post that I had written about this experience at my consulting firm employer, which I will likely modify once again for our

New Book Review: "Spring Batch in Action"

New book review for Spring Batch in Action, by Arnaud Cogoluegnes, Thierry Templier, Gary Gregory, and Olivier Bazoud, Manning Publications, 2011, reposted here: Probably one of the best written and edited technical texts ever compiled in the Java space. Well recommended for anyone looking to understand how Spring Batch can

Personal Reading List: 4Q2013

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2013. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Common Errors in Statistics and How to Avoid Them (Fourth Edition), by Phillip I. Good and James W. Hardin, Wiley, 2012. Data Science for Business: What You Need

Rave Run: Great Western Trail (Lombard, Illinois)

This post is my fourth in a series that I started a couple years ago, unabashedly based on a regular spread in Runner's World Magazine called Rave Runs, in order to share interesting routes with other runners. Why a post on running within a blog that concentrates on

Product Reviews: Part 6

This past week (August 1, 2013), my Amazon reviews hit the milestone of 2000 cast votes. I had originally written a draft post that marked the milestones of 250 written reviews and 1500 helpful votes (May 24, 2012 marked the milestone of 1500 cast votes), but these milestones were quickly