by cfrost | Aug 28, 2013 | Project Management
My book review was picked for publication by the PM World Book review. This past month, I reviewed Tres Roeder’s book – Managing Project Stakeholders: Building a Foundation to Achive Project Goals. In short, it was a good read and I was able to review...
by Chris Frost | Aug 28, 2013 | Project Management
This past month, I reviewed Tres Roeder’s book – Managing Project Stakeholders: Building a Foundation to Achive Project Goals. In short, it was a good read and I was able to review the book free of charge through PMI Dallas’ Book Review group....
by Chris Frost | Feb 4, 2013 | Business Intelligence
Master Data Management (MDM) Serves as the authoritative source for applications and analytics Have to have a way to track all the different process Ideal – Application integration Single Version of all Entities Must be owned by each Business Unit Must have versioning...
by Chris Frost | Jan 28, 2013 | Business Intelligence
Dimensional Model – Contains facts and dimensions. The level of detail in the fact table is called the grain Types of Schemas Fact tables are joined to related dimensions, called a star schema Dimensions that relate to multiple fact tables, should be conformed...
by cfrost | Jan 23, 2013 | Spring
Inversion of Control (IoC) principle – Also known as dependency injection (DI). IoC is a process whereby objects define their dependencies, only through constructor arguments. The container then injects those dependencies when it creates the bean. This process...
by Chris Frost | Jan 14, 2013 | Business Intelligence
Everything is moving toward evidence-based decision making. In a recent survey of business professionals, 58% say analytics is playing an integral role. They rely on that information to make their business more competitive (46%), target new customers (36%), and...
by cfrost | Aug 27, 2012 | Spring
Spring was introduced in 2005 and has evolved from there. Nowadays, you need Spring and Hibernate for most of the jobs. Spring began with a dislike of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). What Is Spring? Spring is described as a lightweight framework for building Java...
by cfrost | May 15, 2012 | Java
To be a Servlet, a Java class just has to implement the Servlet interface. A full implementation would be Tomcat or Websphere. We are just interested in overwriting that … and that’s possible with an abstract class called Generic Servlet. Servlet knows nothing about...
by cfrost | May 10, 2012 | Java
How do you start to learn Java or Object Oriented Programming (OOP)? I had an excellent teacher who cared about doing things the right way and teaching us why things worked the way that they did. Below are some of my crib notes from my first class with him. EXERCISE...
by cfrost | May 8, 2012 | Web
Servlets and Tomcat Servlet – Java technology-based Web component, managed by a container, that generates dynamic content. Servlets interact with Web clients via a request/response paradigm implemented by the servlet container. To be a Servlet, a Java class...
