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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Past Book Review (January 25, 2009): "Alpha Project Managers"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Alpha Project Managers: What the Top 2% Know That Everyone Else Does Not, by Andy Crowe, Velociteach, 2006, reposted here: The subtitle for this work would probably be more aptly worded "What the Top 2% DO that

Past Book Review (January 1, 2009): "The Designful Company"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for The Designful Company: How to Build a Culture of Nonstop Innovation, by Marty Neumeier, Peachpit Press, 2008, reposted here: A beautifully designed text. The author's description of this work as an "airplane book", compressed

Past Book Review (December 13, 2008): "Reward Systems"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Reward Systems: Does Yours Measure Up?, by Steven Kerr, Harvard Business School Press, 2008, reposted here: The core content that Steve Kerr presents here is a simple, effective process to improve the corporate reward system in three high-level

Mono in Transition; C# or Objective-C?

Funny that although I have been trying to cancel my "InformationWeek" magazine subscription for quite some time, just as the publisher threatened that the June 13, 2011 issue "may be one of your last unless you revew now" comes an article, ".NET Alternative in Transition&

HAPI Announcement: Anniversary and Community Survey

Another round of recent HAPI (HL7 Application Programming Interface) announcements this past week mentioned its 10-year anniversary, in response to which I offer the team congratulations, as well as a survey it offered to its open source developer community to get a better guage on its user base: Hi Everyone,

HAPI Announcement: Version 1.2 Beta Released

Readers of this blog know by now that I have used HAPI (HL7 Application Programming Interface), an object-oriented HL7 2.x parser for Java, with such a high level of success that I am compelled to pass on significant announcements. The release of HAPI 1.2 Beta was announced via

Personal Reading List: 3Q2011

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2011. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Architecture of Network Systems, by Dimitrios Serpanos and Tilman Wolf, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011. By invitation from Amazon. Bridging the Silos: Enterprise Architecture for IT Architects, by Tom Graves,

Google Analytics: 20 Months

Google Analytics was set up for this blog 20 months ago (refer to the posts I submitted since October, 2009 to see how traffic has grown over this time period). Since the last related post 6 months ago, the number of countries of origin has increased by 21 to reach

New Book Review: "The Personal MBA"

New book review for The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, by Josh Kaufman, Portfolio / Penguin, 2010, reposted here: Of the many reviews I have written here, writing a review for this text was among the most difficult because "The Personal MBA" has a large target market

New Book Review: "Your Brain and Business"

New book review for Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders, by Srinivasan S. Pillay, FT Press, 2011, reposted here: It is apparent that one has a controversial text on their hands when some reviewers assign the label "too scientific", and some reviewers assign the label