I’ve been speaking at some conferences lately. I knew I needed to get better with my submissions and hoped Alistair or Edd would write a blog post about how to improve. Alistair did except it got out of hand and became a book. This book became Propose, Prepare,...
My original review of Hadoop The Definitive Guide (TDG) was for the 2nd edition. Recently, the 3rd edition was released. I reread the book in its entirety. The new edition covers the latest changes to the 1.x (0.20) and the 2.x (0.23). The book’s examples now...
This is a review of Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g Programming Techniques and Solutions, Second Edition by Tom Kyte. Overall, I highly recommend this book to the target audience. The target audience is not a new programmer or...
Update: Review of Hadoop the Definitive Guide 3nd Edition I spent some time reading 2 Hadoop books: Hadoop the Definitive Guide 2nd Edition by Tom White and Hadoop In Action by Chuck Lam.  Both books were well written but seemed to be aimed at a different audience....
