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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

New Book Review: "Spring Batch in Action"

New book review for Spring Batch in Action, by Arnaud Cogoluegnes, Thierry Templier, Gary Gregory, and Olivier Bazoud, Manning Publications, 2011, reposted here: Probably one of the best written and edited technical texts ever compiled in the Java space. Well recommended for anyone looking to understand how Spring Batch can

New Book Review: "Instant Drools Starter"

New book review for Instant Drools Starter, by Jeremy Ary, Packt Publishing, 2013, reposted here: Since it had been several years since I last used a rules engine to any significant extent on a work project, and introductory Drools community documentation seemed to be lacking, I had thought it might