If you’re anything like me, you often daydream of the wonderful computer setup you’d like to have someday if you can ever afford it. All those computers & gadgets, working flawlessly together in absolute technological bliss. Well, as I near graduation, my probably false perception, is that those dreams are a little closer. The first two items on that imaginary shopping list is some kind of RAID storage solution and some kind of device that [...]

None of this is original, I just uncovered this article in the archives of the internet. It answers the question I’ve been pondering for awhile, and it also cautions against something I’ve been thinking of doing lately (no I’m not a CEO). The bottom line is this. If you’re a blogger and you expect people to read your blog, you must have 4 of the following 5 things: Candor Urgency Timeliness Pithiness Controversy I had [...]

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is one of many buzzwords you’ll hear in software development circles. It’s actually more than one word, but nobody ever says buzzphrase, we’re much more excited by buzzwords. This article is by no means meant to be a comprehensive resource, it simply represents my attempt to wrap my head around the concept. Model driven architecture is an attempt to focus information systems on business problems rather than on the technology itself. [...]

So after our the recent win at the Omniture Web Analytics competition, there was nothing set in stone, but several different Omniture employees (relatively high-ups) came around to talk to us and ask us if we had jobs. Again, nothing was settled, but they made it quite clear that they were hiring and they would be very interested in hiring any one of the team. Now As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve already signed with KPMG [...]

I’ve been doing some research lately looking into memcached. Memcached is a system for distributing a memory cache across multiple machines. If you’re using a single server, then it probably won’t do much for you, but as you start to scale up, it becomes a real life saver. It is able to dramatically reduce database hits, meaning that your disks can take a little rest, and your server doesn’t have to work so hard. The [...]