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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

New Book Review: "Managing Time in Relational Databases"

New book review for Managing Time in Relational Databases: How to Design, Update and Query Temporal Data, by Tom Johnston and Randall Weis, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010, reposted here: When this book was published last year, I must admit that the data architect in me was excited that an advanced database

Personal Reading List: 1Q2012

My personal reading list for January, February, and March 2012. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Confessions of a Public Speaker, by Scott Berkun, O'Reilly, 2011. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (Third Edition), by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank,

HAPI Announcement: 10-Year Anniversary

Follow-up on a post from June when the HAPI 10-Year anniversary was first anticipated. Received this email announcement yesterday afternoon. Some statistics on website visitors and adoption by organizations have also been posted on the HAPI website. Hi Everyone, I just wanted to point out that the HAPI project is

New Book Review: "IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook"

New book review for IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook, by Bill Hines, John Rasmussen, Jaime Ryan, Simon Kapadia, and Jim Brennan, IBM Press, 2008, reposted here: A couple months ago, I read through this near 900-page text in preparation for the project I am currently leading to move my

New Book Review: "The Limits of Strategy"

New book review for The Limits of Strategy: Lessons in Leadership from the Computer Industry, by Ernest von Simson, iUniverse, 2010, reposted here: In my opinion, it is amazing that so few reviews have been posted for this extremely insightful effort by Ernest von Simson, veteran consultant and co-founder of

Google Analytics: 2 Years

It has been 2 years since I set up Google Analytics for this blog (refer to the posts I submitted since October, 2009 to see how traffic has grown over this time period). Since the last related post 4 months ago, the number of countries of origin has increased by

Personal Reading List: 4Q2011

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2011. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Bridging the Silos: Enterprise Architecture for IT Architects, by Tom S. Graves, Tetradian Books, 2008. The Cloud at Your Service, by Jothy Rosenberg and Arthur Mateos, Manning Publications,

New Book Review: "Lean Integration"

New book review for Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility, by John G. Schmidt and David Lyle, Addison-Wesley, 2010, reposted here: A text published several years ago by the same authors, "Integration Competency Center: An Implementation Methodology", initially captured my interest in this recently released

Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 2

Notes taken for posterity during the second of two days of a Certified ScrumMaster Training course that some of my colleagues and I attended this week. These notes are only intended to call out some areas that I found of particular interest during training, and are not intended in any

Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 1

Notes taken for posterity during the first of two days of a Certified ScrumMaster Training course that some of my colleagues and I attended this week. These notes are only intended to call out some areas that I found of particular interest during training, and are not intended in any