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SpringOne 2GX 2010 Day 2:Virtualizing Your Java Applications

Virtualizing Your Java Applications: Best Practices (Justin Murray) Emerging Technology Track 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM From the conference materials: In this session, you will learn the key things to consider when you take your application to a virtualization platform, in particular to VMware ESX. The choice of configured

SpringOne 2GX 2010 Day 1: Keynote

Just returned from the first day of the SpringOne 2GX 2010 conference held at The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in the heart of the Lombard / Oak Brook, Illinois business corridor. The complete session schedule for the week (Tuesday evening through Friday afternoon) is located here. From the conference materials: SpringOne

New Book Review: "The Data Model Resource Book Volume 3"

New book review for The Data Model Resource Book Volume 3: Universal Patterns for Data Modeling, by Len Silverston and Paul Agnew, Wiley Publishing Inc, 2009: Incredibly well done follow-up to the first two volumes of Silverston's data model series (see my reviews for "The Data Model

New Book Review: "Enterprise Master Data Management"

New book review for Enterprise Master Data Management: An SOA Approach to Managing Core Information, by Allen Dreibelbis, Eberhard Hechler, Ivan Milman, Martin Oberhofer, Paul van Run, and Dan Wolfson, IBM Press, 2008: The best text on enterprise master data management (MDM) in the marketplace today. Other reviewers have commented

New Book Review: "The Service-Oriented Enterprise"

New book review for The Service-Oriented Enterprise: Enterprise Architecture and Viable Services, by Tom S. Graves, Tetradian Books, 2009: At the outset, Graves explains that "everything in the enterprise is a service. Everything the enterprise does is a service. Everything the enterprise delivers is a service – even products are

Past Book Review (September 14, 2008):"Real Enterprise Architecture"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Real Enterprise Architecture: Beyond IT to the Whole Enterprise, by Tom S. Graves, Tetradian Books, 2008: As Graves mentions in his introduction, he wrote "Real Enterprise-Architecture" because as of early-2007 there were no books that "

New Book Review: "The Data Model Resource Book Volume 1 (Revised Edition)"

New book review for The Data Model Resource Book Volume 1 (Revised Edition): A Library of Universal Data Models for all Enterprises, by Len Silverston, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001: It is worth repeating what this reviewer indicated in his review of the second volume in this series of

RSNA 2009: Single Source of Truth?

This is the second installment of my discussion following attendance at the RSNA 2009 trade show event at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago. The first installment discussed the faulty findings of one of the research exhibits, followed by my recommendations on how to properly construct the p-chart, a type of

HAPI Announcement: Version 1.0 Beta Released

As mentioned in a previous post, following several years of consulting in healthcare, I used HAPI (HL7 Application Programming Interface) for the first time a couple years ago as part of the solution I architected for a client network of hospitals. Since this initial adoption, the open source HL7 product

New Book Review: "The Data Model Resource Book Volume 2 (Revised Edition)"

New book review for The Data Model Resource Book Volume 2 (Revised Edition): A Library of Universal Data Models by Industry Types, by Len Silverston, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001: Although there are quite a few positive reviews for this series of three texts by Silverston, there are also