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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Current Print Subscriptions: 4Q2011

My subscriptions to print periodicals as of October, November, and December 2011. Update: * Discontinued IEEE Engineering Management Review * Discontinued IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Computerworld * Information Technology. * Weekly. Online version available here. Consulting * Consulting events, thought leadership, industry intelligence, and lifestyle issues. * Bimonthly. Online version available here. The Economist * Business,

RSNA 2011: Observations by an Architect (November 27, 2011)

This past Sunday I had the opportunity to attend the annual RSNA trade show again. As in past years, most of my time was spent in the research exhibits, because from the perspective of an architect it is always interesting to not only see the move of technologies to the

RSNA 2010: Observations by an Architect (November 28, 2010)

Spent all day yesterday at McCormick Place – I had the opportunity to attend the annual RSNA trade show again this year. Most of my time was probably spent in the research exhibits, but I also spent a fair amount of time upstairs on the main floor visiting commercial exhibits. It&

New Book Review: "The Cloud at Your Service"

New book review for The Cloud at Your Service: The When, How, and Why of Enterprise Cloud Computing, by Jothy Rosenberg and Arthur Mateos, Manning, 2011, reposted here: Potential readers of this text, especially those familiar with Manning, might be interested in knowing that in their preface, the authors indicate

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

Personal Reading List: 1Q2012

My personal reading list for January, February, and March 2012. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Confessions of a Public Speaker, by Scott Berkun, O'Reilly, 2011. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (Third Edition), by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank,

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

New Book Review: "IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook"

New book review for IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook, by Bill Hines, John Rasmussen, Jaime Ryan, Simon Kapadia, and Jim Brennan, IBM Press, 2008, reposted here: A couple months ago, I read through this near 900-page text in preparation for the project I am currently leading to move my

New Book Review: "The Limits of Strategy"

New book review for The Limits of Strategy: Lessons in Leadership from the Computer Industry, by Ernest von Simson, iUniverse, 2010, reposted here: In my opinion, it is amazing that so few reviews have been posted for this extremely insightful effort by Ernest von Simson, veteran consultant and co-founder of

Google Analytics: 2 Years

It has been 2 years since I set up Google Analytics for this blog (refer to the posts I submitted since October, 2009 to see how traffic has grown over this time period). Since the last related post 4 months ago, the number of countries of origin has increased by