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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

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: "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: "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: "Lean Integration"

New book review for Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility, by John G. Schmidt and David Lyle, Addison-Wesley, 2010, reposted here: A text published several years ago by the same authors, "Integration Competency Center: An Implementation Methodology", initially captured my interest in this recently released

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