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New Book Review: "The JHipster Mini-Book"

New book review for The JHipster Mini-Book, by Matt Raible, C4Media (Publisher of InfoQ.com), 2015, reposted here: According to the author, the purpose of this book is to further the knowledge of JHipster, as well as to show Java developers that they can be hip again by leveraging AngularJS,

Past Book Review (July 6, 2007): "Balancing Agility and Discipline"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner, Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education, 2003, reposted here: Great text. I really enjoyed reading this book by Boehm and Turner. Especially enjoyable was reading Grady

New Book Review: "Time Series Databases"

New book review for Time Series Databases: New Ways to Store and Access Data, by Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: This book specifically centers around time series databases (TSDB). Although collecting and analyzing time series data is not new, as the authors explain, the

New Book Review: "The Human Side of Postmortems"

New book review for The Human Side of Postmortems: Managing Stress and Cognitive Biases, by Dave Zwieback, O'Reilly, 2013, reposted here: The subject of postmortems should definitely get more attention in the workplace, although properly conducted agile retrospectives are more in vogue these days in the technology space

New Book Review: "JS.Next: A Manager's Guide (Second Edition)"

New book review for JS.Next: A Manager's Guide (Second Edition), by Aaron Frost, O'Reilly, 2015: Great report on JS.Next in a small, 34-page package provided free by O'Reilly. The author, a Google Developer Expert nominated by Google for his work on AngularJS

New Book Review: "Java: The Legend"

New book review for Java: The Legend – Past, Present, and Future, by Ben Evans, O'Reilly, 2015: As the publicity material for this short, 50-page programming report points out, the road from Java's first public 1.0 alpha back in 1995 to its present form has been

New Book Review: "PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook (Second Edition)"

New book review for PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook (Second Edition), by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, and Hannu Krosing, Packt Publishing, 2015, reposted here: This book provides helpful material for those like myself who are relatively new to PostgreSQL, but not new to relational database products. While I had some earlier

New Book Review: "Spring REST"

New book review for Spring REST, by Balaji Varanasi and Sudha Belida, Apress, 2015, reposted here: Phenomenally practical guide for designing and developing REST services using the Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Web MVC, and Spring Data. Unlike many technical books in the marketplace, this guide truly walks the reader

Product Reviews: Part 8

This past week (June 8, 2015), my Amazon reviews hit the milestone of 2500 total cast votes. Approximately 9 months ago, my Amazon reviews hit the milestone of 2000 helpful votes. While my reviewer ranking has continued to decrease, due to less review writing, existing reviews appear to be holding

New Book Review: "RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices"

New book review for RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices, by Bhakti Mehta, Packt Publishing, 2014, reposted here: Concise 125-page, 6-chapter presentation on how to efficiently build scalable, reliable, and maintainable high performance REST services that is among the very few available newer texts on the subject in the 2015