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New Book Review: "RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices"

New book review for RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices, by Bhakti Mehta, Packet Publishing, 2014: Concise 125-page, 6-chapter presentation on how to efficiently build scalable, reliable, and maintainable high performance REST services that is among the very few available newer texts on the subject in the 2015 marketplace. While

Past Book Review (May 26, 2007): "The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook: A Quick Reference Guide to 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed, by Michael L. George, John Maxey, David Rowlands, and Mark Price, McGraw-Hill Education, 2004: This text is simply the best

Past Book Review (December 22, 2007): "Agile Estimating and Planning"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Agile Estimating and Planning, by Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2005: This Robert C. Martin Series text by Mike Cohn has been unfairly criticized by previous reviewers. The content in general is very well written, and the subject matter

New Book Review: "Version Control with Git (Second Edition)"

New book review for Version Control with Git (Second Edition), by Jon Loeliger and Matthew McCullough, O'Reilly, 2012: Solid discussion of Git for someone like me who has primarily been using CVS and SVN (Subversion) throughout their career, and has since started using Git. While I do not

New Book Review: "Building Microservices"

New book review for Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, by Sam Newman, O'Reilly, 2015: As explained in the preface to this book, "microservices" are small, autonomous services that work together, each of which is focused on doing one thing well. While the topic of microservices is

Past Book Review (October 21, 2007): "Software by Numbers"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development, by Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang, Prentice Hall, 2003: This book caught my attention because I was searching for a decent book on ROI and software development, and Dr. Jane Cleland-Huang was

Past Book Review (September 26, 2008): "DW2.0"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for DW2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems), by William H. Inmon, Derek Strauss, and Genia Neushloss, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008: Awareness of this book arose following my recent

Past Book Review (July 4, 2006): "Software Estimation"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices), by Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 2006: McConnell immediately differentiates between software estimation as a science and software estimation as an art within the first pages of the introduction to this

Product Reviews: Part 7

This past week (September 4, 2014), my Amazon reviews hit the milestone of 2000 helpful votes. Approximately a year ago, my Amazon reviews hit the milestone of 2000 cast votes. While my reviewer ranking has decreased considerably during the past year, due to less review writing, existing reviews appear to

New Book Review: "Agile Data Warehouse Design"

New book review for Agile Data Warehouse Design: Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schema, by Lawrence Corr and Jim Stagnitto, DecisionOne Press, 2011: Good step-by-step guide for capturing data warehousing requirements and building dimensional models from these requirements through modelstorming (data modeling plus brainstorming) with business intelligence stakeholders.