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New Book Review: "R Graphics Cookbook"

New book review for R Graphics Cookbook, by Winston Chang, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: This book is the third that I have recently used to get up to speed on the R language and environment. The other two texts include "R in a Nutshell" and "

New Book Review: "Team Geek"

New book review forTeam Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others, by Brian W. Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: Arguably the best text on the software development process that focuses on the individual contributor within the context of a team.

New Book Review: "R in Action"

New book review for R in Action: Data Analysis and Graphics with R, by Robert Kabacoff, Manning Publications, 2011, reposted here: Quite a few texts on R have entered the marketplace over the last few years, so my decision to go with this text about a year ago was based

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 5

A year has gone by since I last posted about Liquibase, an open source database change management tool that I exclaimed is "one of the best software development tools I have used in recent years" in my first post of the series. All of these posts continue to

Commercialized Open Source (Repost from January 2009)

One nontrivial area of decision making that is of increasing import in recent years involves the choice between open source and commercial products. If you have not yet noticed, a fair number of open source software products have been acquired by commercial firms, and much open source has the backing

Chicago Big Data: Future of Data Processing with Apache Hadoop (August 21, 2012)

Personal notes from the Chicago Big Data meeting this past week at 1871 at Merchandise Mart, a tech hub for startups which opened just over 3 months ago, led by Bobby Evans, a developer and tech lead at Yahoo! Arun Murthy, founder and architect at Hortonworks, was planning to present

New Book Review: "Portlets in Action"

New book review for Portlets in Action, by Ashish Sarin, Manning Publications, 2011, reposted here: In just having recently completed a development project creating portlets for the first time with a Java Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286) compliant portal server, I hope I can provide some insight into the

HAPI Announcement: Version 2.0 Released

Earlier this week, version 2.0 of my favorite open source health care software framework was released, and I received the following email for the announcement: Hi Everyone, Today marks a big milestone for HAPI, with the release of version 2.0 of both the HAPI Java API and the

Jump Start Your App: Sometimes Creativity Comes from Chaos

The article entitled "Appsurd: In Silicon Valley, It's Hard to Make a Joke" published in the Wall Street Journal this past week (June 5, 2012) immediately reminded me of the book "Jump Start Your Brain", by Doug Hall, that I read after receiving it

New Book Review: "Hadoop in Action"

New book review for Hadoop in Action, by Chuck Lam, Manning Publications, 2010, reposted here: After checking out reviews of what O'Reilly and Apress had to offer with regard to Hadoop, I ended up purchasing this book based on positive reviews, my past positive experiences with the Manning