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New Book Review: "Time Series Databases"

New book review for Time Series Databases: New Ways to Store and Access Data, by Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: This book specifically centers around time series databases (TSDB). Although collecting and analyzing time series data is not new, as the authors explain, the

New Book Review: "The Human Side of Postmortems"

New book review for The Human Side of Postmortems: Managing Stress and Cognitive Biases, by Dave Zwieback, O'Reilly, 2013, reposted here: The subject of postmortems should definitely get more attention in the workplace, although properly conducted agile retrospectives are more in vogue these days in the technology space

New Book Review: "JS.Next: A Manager's Guide (Second Edition)"

New book review for JS.Next: A Manager's Guide (Second Edition), by Aaron Frost, O'Reilly, 2015: Great report on JS.Next in a small, 34-page package provided free by O'Reilly. The author, a Google Developer Expert nominated by Google for his work on AngularJS

New Book Review: "Java: The Legend"

New book review for Java: The Legend – Past, Present, and Future, by Ben Evans, O'Reilly, 2015: As the publicity material for this short, 50-page programming report points out, the road from Java's first public 1.0 alpha back in 1995 to its present form has been

Personal Reading List: 4Q2015

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2015. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Common Errors in Statistics and How to Avoid Them (Fourth Edition), by Phillip I. Good and James W. Hardin, Wiley, 2012. Java: The Legend – Past, Present, and

New Book Review: "PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook (Second Edition)"

New book review for PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook (Second Edition), by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, and Hannu Krosing, Packt Publishing, 2015, reposted here: This book provides helpful material for those like myself who are relatively new to PostgreSQL, but not new to relational database products. While I had some earlier

Centric Consulting CampIO 2015: Use Your Skills to Benefit a Non-Profit

My first attempt at assembling my thoughts around the topic of pro bono consulting, based on my past experiences working with 5 different non-profit organizations. These slides were presented at CampIO 2015, an annual conference organized for internal employees at Centric Consulting. From the promotional materials: Use Your Skills to

Google Analytics: 40k pageviews

According to the Google Analytics account I set up for this blog roughly 5.5 years ago, a threshold has just recently been crossed: 40,000 page views. About 1.5 years ago, I reported that the 30,000 page view threshold had been passed by visitors from 145 countries

New Book Review: "Spring REST"

New book review for Spring REST, by Balaji Varanasi and Sudha Belida, Apress, 2015, reposted here: Phenomenally practical guide for designing and developing REST services using the Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Web MVC, and Spring Data. Unlike many technical books in the marketplace, this guide truly walks the reader

Personal Reading List: 3Q2015

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2015. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) D3.js in Action, by Elijah Meeks, Manning Publications, 2015. Data Visualization with D3 and AngularJS, by Christoph Körner, Packt Publishing, 2015. PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook (Second