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Chicago Big Data: Future of Data Processing with Apache Hadoop (August 21, 2012)

Personal notes from the Chicago Big Data meeting this past week at 1871 at Merchandise Mart, a tech hub for startups which opened just over 3 months ago, led by Bobby Evans, a developer and tech lead at Yahoo! Arun Murthy, founder and architect at Hortonworks, was planning to present

New Book Review: "Portlets in Action"

New book review for Portlets in Action, by Ashish Sarin, Manning Publications, 2011, reposted here: In just having recently completed a development project creating portlets for the first time with a Java Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286) compliant portal server, I hope I can provide some insight into the

HAPI Announcement: Version 2.0 Released

Earlier this week, version 2.0 of my favorite open source health care software framework was released, and I received the following email for the announcement: Hi Everyone, Today marks a big milestone for HAPI, with the release of version 2.0 of both the HAPI Java API and the

Jump Start Your App: Sometimes Creativity Comes from Chaos

The article entitled "Appsurd: In Silicon Valley, It's Hard to Make a Joke" published in the Wall Street Journal this past week (June 5, 2012) immediately reminded me of the book "Jump Start Your Brain", by Doug Hall, that I read after receiving it

New Book Review: "Hadoop in Action"

New book review for Hadoop in Action, by Chuck Lam, Manning Publications, 2010, reposted here: After checking out reviews of what O'Reilly and Apress had to offer with regard to Hadoop, I ended up purchasing this book based on positive reviews, my past positive experiences with the Manning

New Book Review: "Patent, Copyright & Trademark"

New book review for Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Property Desk Reference (11th Edition), by Attorney Richard Stim, NOLO, 2010, reposted here: Good introduction to intellectual property law, which consists of four separate and overlapping legal disciplines: (1) patent law, (2) copyright law, (3) trademark law, and (4) trade

Past Book Review (July 6, 2007): "Inventing Software"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Inventing Software: The Rise of "Computer-Related" Patents, by Kenneth Nichols, Quorum Books, 1998, reposted here: From the first lines of the preface of this work by Kenneth Nichols, it is apparent that what was initially planned

New Book Review: "Managing Time in Relational Databases"

New book review for Managing Time in Relational Databases: How to Design, Update and Query Temporal Data, by Tom Johnston and Randall Weis, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010, reposted here: When this book was published last year, I must admit that the data architect in me was excited that an advanced database

HAPI Announcement: 10-Year Anniversary

Follow-up on a post from June when the HAPI 10-Year anniversary was first anticipated. Received this email announcement yesterday afternoon. Some statistics on website visitors and adoption by organizations have also been posted on the HAPI website. Hi Everyone, I just wanted to point out that the HAPI project is

Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 2

Notes taken for posterity during the second of two days of a Certified ScrumMaster Training course that some of my colleagues and I attended this week. These notes are only intended to call out some areas that I found of particular interest during training, and are not intended in any