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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

Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 1

Notes taken for posterity during the first 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

New Book Review: "Architecture of Network Systems"

New book review for Architecture of Network Systems, by Dimitrios Serpanos and Tilman Wolf, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011, reposted here: As the authors explain in the preface, this book was developed for use in university courses at the upper undergraduate and graduate level, using material previously presented by the authors at

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 4

About a month ago, I completed my second Liquibase project, one of a portfolio of four projects I managed for the client CTO, and an extension to the project first mentioned in my third post in this series. The first Liquibase project that I had completed for another client, although

Past Book Review (March 1, 2009): "IT Architecture Toolkit"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for IT Architecture Toolkit, by Jane A. Carbone, Prentice Hall, 2004, reposted here: Over the past year, this reviewer has spent some time catching up on some of the more recently available texts on enterprise architecture, and quite simply

Mono in Transition; C# or Objective-C?

Funny that although I have been trying to cancel my "InformationWeek" magazine subscription for quite some time, just as the publisher threatened that the June 13, 2011 issue "may be one of your last unless you revew now" comes an article, ".NET Alternative in Transition&

New Book Review: "The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement"

New book review for The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement, by David Loshin, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010, reposted here: Some of the other reviews that have been posted here provide some interesting observations from perspectives that are not always centered on data architecture or general enterprise architecture, and

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 3

Amazing that it has been nearly a year since I posted Part 1 and Part 2 of my series on Liquibase in the enterprise, and since then these have been two of the most visited posts on this blog. From the data that Google Analytics provides me, it is clear

"Hello Android": Part 3

It did not take too long to come to the conclusion that my short-term satisfaction with the Android development environment I had just built had come to an abrupt halt. The main reason behind this change is the fact that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS does not support dual monitors for

New Book Review: "Just Enough Software Architecture"

Recently posted book review for Just Enough Software Architecture: A Risk-Driven Approach, by George H. Fairbanks, Marshall & Brainerd, 2010, reposted here: During my last year of graduate school several years ago, I wrote reviews for two software books that I still consider exemplary: "Object Technology: A Manager'