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Strange Loop 2014:Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza

Peabody Opera House September 18, 2014: 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM From the promotional materials: Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no amount of NoSQL has changed that. However, most

Strange Loop 2014:Sessions Planning

The following are the most probable and least probable sessions that I expect to attend during each time slot of the Strange Loop 2014 conference next week, although anything is possible, and I can be swayed. Thursday September 18 7:30am – 8:45am Registration 8:45am – 9:00am Welcome – Alex

Past Book Review (July 4, 2006): "Software Estimation"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices), by Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 2006, reposted here: McConnell immediately differentiates between software estimation as a science and software estimation as an art within the first pages of the introduction

New Book Review: "Practical Machine Learning"

New book review for Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendation, by Ellen Friedman and Ted Dunning, O'Reilly, 2014, reposted here: This work is a short, white paper sized text that walks the reader through practical aspects of machine learning recommendation, specifically for those who are new to this

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 6

The last post in my series on Liquibase, an open source database change management tool, mentioned that I had been contacted by a startup that was looking to potentially work on a commercial release. A couple months after meeting with the cofounder and CTO of the firm as part of

New Book Review: "R in a Nutshell"

New book review for R in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (Second Edition), by Joseph Adler, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: This book is the second that I purchased this past year to get up to speed on the R language and environment, along with "R in

New Book Review: "Drools Developer's Cookbook"

New book review for Drools Developer's Cookbook, by Lucas Amador, Packt Publishing, 2012, reposted here: In my earlier review of "Instant Drools Starter", I mentioned that since it had been several years since I had last used a rules engine to any significant extent on a

No Fluff Just Stuff 2013 Day 3:Gittin' Git

Gittin' Git (Raju Gandhi) November 10, 2013: 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM From the conference materials: Git, at it's core, leverages a relatively simple data structure to maintain history. In this session we will take a look at this data-structure, which in turn will give us

No Fluff Just Stuff 2013 Day 3:Simulation Testing with Simulant

Simulation Testing with Simulant (Stuart Halloway) November 10, 2013: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM From the conference materials: Simulation allows a rigorous, scalable, and reproducible approach to testing. The separation of concerns, and the use of a versioned, time-aware database, give simulation great power. This talk will introduce simulation

Agile Wall Board Hacks: Heat Map

Early this year, I set up a traditional agile wall board for my last client project, and this post is a modified and expanded version of an internal post that I had written about this experience at my consulting firm employer, which I will likely modify once again for our