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New Book Review: "The Wrong Answer Faster"

New book review for The Wrong Answer Faster: The Inside Story of Making the Machine that Trades Trillions, by Michael Goodkin, Wiley, 2012, reposted here: A coming of age story of a man and an industry. As a first generation American, a Chicago-area native, and a software professional, I find

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

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

New Book Review: "The Lean Startup"

New book review for The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, by Eric Ries, Crown Business, 2011, reposted here: Copy (uncorrected proof) provided by Amazon. Good introduction to the application of Lean principles to the startup effort. As with its Lean

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

Past Book Review (January 1, 2009): "The Designful Company"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for The Designful Company: How to Build a Culture of Nonstop Innovation, by Marty Neumeier, Peachpit Press, 2008, reposted here: A beautifully designed text. The author's description of this work as an "airplane book", compressed

Past Book Review (December 13, 2008): "Reward Systems"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Reward Systems: Does Yours Measure Up?, by Steven Kerr, Harvard Business School Press, 2008, reposted here: The core content that Steve Kerr presents here is a simple, effective process to improve the corporate reward system in three high-level

New Book Review: "Your Brain and Business"

New book review for Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders, by Srinivasan S. Pillay, FT Press, 2011, reposted here: It is apparent that one has a controversial text on their hands when some reviewers assign the label "too scientific", and some reviewers assign the label

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

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'