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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

Past Book Review (July 6, 2007): "Inventing Software"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Inventing Software: The Rise of "Computer-Related" Patents, by Kenneth Nichols, Quorum Books, 1998, reposted here: From the first lines of the preface of this work by Kenneth Nichols, it is apparent that what was initially planned

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

HAPI Announcement: 10-Year Anniversary

Follow-up on a post from June when the HAPI 10-Year anniversary was first anticipated. Received this email announcement yesterday afternoon. Some statistics on website visitors and adoption by organizations have also been posted on the HAPI website. Hi Everyone, I just wanted to point out that the HAPI project is

Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 2

Notes taken for posterity during the second of two days of a Certified ScrumMaster Training course that some of my colleagues and I attended this week. These notes are only intended to call out some areas that I found of particular interest during training, and are not intended in any

Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 1

Notes taken for posterity during the first of two days of a Certified ScrumMaster Training course that some of my colleagues and I attended this week. These notes are only intended to call out some areas that I found of particular interest during training, and are not intended in any

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 4

About a month ago, I completed my second Liquibase project, one of a portfolio of four projects I managed for the client CTO, and an extension to the project first mentioned in my third post in this series. The first Liquibase project that I had completed for another client, although

Mono in Transition; C# or Objective-C?

Funny that although I have been trying to cancel my "InformationWeek" magazine subscription for quite some time, just as the publisher threatened that the June 13, 2011 issue "may be one of your last unless you revew now" comes an article, ".NET Alternative in Transition&

HAPI Announcement: Anniversary and Community Survey

Another round of recent HAPI (HL7 Application Programming Interface) announcements this past week mentioned its 10-year anniversary, in response to which I offer the team congratulations, as well as a survey it offered to its open source developer community to get a better guage on its user base: Hi Everyone,

HAPI Announcement: Version 1.2 Beta Released

Readers of this blog know by now that I have used HAPI (HL7 Application Programming Interface), an object-oriented HL7 2.x parser for Java, with such a high level of success that I am compelled to pass on significant announcements. The release of HAPI 1.2 Beta was announced via