Kevin Bacon Is The Center Of The Universe Working in Rapid City, SD on a consulting engagement for First Administrators (a partner of Source Allies that is a subsidiary of Wellmark) I was responding to an invitation to get together with colleagues from a former employer, MetLife. Looking at the...

With one step into our office on Ingersoll Ave, visitors are greeted by a pile of shoes and several racks of slippers. Watching the expressions of first time guests is priceless. Some don’t even notice this small detail while others are quick to question the story behind the slippers. On...

Has locating information across a multitude of systems on your corporate network finally made you consider an enterprise search appliance? Our company has a number of systems in place designed to capture corporate knowledge and subject matter expertise. Once it became too time consuming to find information across these systems...

Do we really need ServiceInterface, ServiceImpl, DaoInterface, and DaoImpl? Or can we just say the EntityManager is the DAO, and blow away a generally unnecessary layer? On CRUD apps, 9x out of 10, the service layer is merely a pass-through to the DAO. Is there time to be saved here?...

A few weeks ago the global routing table reached its 300,000th route.  Below is a graph showing the exponential growth over the last 15 years. BGP Table (Yearly) Let’s do a little math: Assuming all 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses are used (which isn’t quite true), each route represents approximately 4,294,967,296...