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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Personal Reading List: 2Q2011

My personal reading list for April, May, and June 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 S.

HAPI Announcement: Version 1.1 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 1.1 Beta was announced via

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 3

Amazing that it has been nearly a year since I posted Part 1 and Part 2 of my series on Liquibase in the enterprise, and since then these have been two of the most visited posts on this blog. From the data that Google Analytics provides me, it is clear

Counterpoint: "A doctor's note for virulent consultants"

One of the most entertaining articles I have read in quite some time was published in the Financial Times earlier this week. Entitled "A doctor's note for virulent consultants", author Andrew Hill quotes "a respected captain of industry" as saying that "consultants are

Past Book Review (January 10, 2009): "The World's Newest Profession"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century, by Christopher D. McKenna, Cambridge University Press, 2006, reposted here: A discussion of the consulting industry from its early origins in the late 1800s is what

Current Print Subscriptions: 1Q2011

My subscriptions to print periodicals as of January, February, and March 2011. Computerworld * Information Technology. * Weekly. Online version available here. Consulting * Consulting events, thought leadership, industry intelligence, and lifestyle issues. * Bimonthly. Online version available here. The Economist * Business, political and literary newsweekly. * Weekly. Online version available here. IEEE Engineering Management

Anima Sana In Corpore Sano: Part 2

In my last Google Analytics post, I mentioned that "I find it humorous that my entries on running are among the most popular", with my entry on last year's ASICS advertising campaign at the top of the list. I have been noticing the new ASICS advertising

"Hello Android": Part 3

It did not take too long to come to the conclusion that my short-term satisfaction with the Android development environment I had just built had come to an abrupt halt. The main reason behind this change is the fact that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS does not support dual monitors for

New Book Review: "Unthinking"

Recently posted book review for Unthinking: The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy, by Harry Beckwith, Business Plus, 2011, reposted here: In my comments on Beckwith's "Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing" a couple years ago, I indicated that in the words of

"Hello Android": Part 2

This morning was a good time to finally move the last laptop in my home office to Linux from Windows (in this case Windows XP) and use the laptop as a dedicated Android development environment. As you may have read in my first post, I am planning the initial project