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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

New Book Review: "Confessions of a Public Speaker"

New book review for Confessions of a Public Speaker, by Scott Berkun, O'Reilly, 2011, reposted here: About a year ago, shortly after one of the directors at the consulting firm with which I am currently employed recommended that I look into speaking on a more formal basis, partially

From the Trenches: IBM WebSphere WMB, WTX, MQ

At the moment, I am resurfacing after having spent nearly the last 6 months in the trenches of IBM WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) 6.1.0.9, IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) 8.2.0.4, and IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0, a set of products that were inherent constraints

Personal Reading List: 2Q2012

My personal reading list for April, May, and June 2012. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (Third Edition), by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, and Mark A. Hall, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011. By invitation from Amazon. Everyday

Domain Finally Captured: erikonsoftware.com

A couple months ago, I noticed that registration for domain erikonsoftware.com was finally set to expire, so I put the domain on backorder with the hope of capturing it. Notification that this domain was captured was received today, which is great news for this blog after nearly three years

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: "To the Cloud"

New book review for To the Cloud: Cloud Powering the Enterprise, by Pankaj Arora, Raj Biyani, and Salil Dave, McGraw-Hill, 2012, reposted here: The authors of this text rightly explain in their introduction that the path to cloud adoption is bound to be different for every firm. Because much of

New Book Review: "Influence"

New book review for Influence: Science and Practice, by Robert B. Cialdini, Pearson Education, 2009, reposted here: The quote by Tom Peters on the cover of the fifth edition is what helped compel me to purchase this text: "If everything were on the line in a negotiation, I can&

New Book Review: "Dr. Peeling's Principles of Management"

New book review for Dr. Peeling's Principles of Management: Practical Advice for the Front-Line Manager, by Nic Peeling, Dorset House, 2003, reposted here: The aspect of this text that originally drew my attention was that it is published by Dorset House, which has still yet to disappoint after

New Book Review: "Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture"

New book review for Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework (Third Edition), by Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn, Jossey-Bass, 2011, reposted here: In the introduction to this book, the authors share the familiar Tom Peters quote, "If you're not confused,