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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

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

HAPI Announcement: Version 1.1 Released

Follow-up to my recent post a couple weeks ago that HAPI Version 1.1 Beta was released. An email announcing the release of HAPI Version 1.1 was distributed last weekend: Hi Everyone, HAPI 1.1 is now out! This release features a few new features, and a number of

Rave Run: Buffalo Bayou (Houston, Texas)

While my travel as a consultant has been much more limited in recent years due to Midwest client focus, one habit that remains with me while traveling is always inquiring about local running paths when visiting unfamiliar locales for the first time. Some of the best exploring can be done

"Hello Android": Part 4

It has been a few weeks since I last touched base on this project, due to the limited time I have away from my day job and my distracted focus on porting a C++ application to Android that I had intended as a component for the product I am constructing.

Product Reviews: Part 3

Broke the Amazon New Reviewer Rank of #2000 for the first time today, jumping from #2017 to #1961 in less than 24 hours, although this ranking fluctuates and is bound to dip again before going back up. Almost exactly two years ago, I posted the following comment in my first

New Book Review: "The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement"

New book review for The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement, by David Loshin, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010, reposted here: Some of the other reviews that have been posted here provide some interesting observations from perspectives that are not always centered on data architecture or general enterprise architecture, and

New Book Review: "Million Dollar Speaking"

New book review for Million Dollar Speaking: The Professional's Guide to Building Your Platform, by Alan Weiss, Ph.D., McGraw-Hill, 2011, reposted here: As Alan Weiss states in his preface, this book was written for the professional career speaker (one who gets paid to speak), even though "