Load balancing is a mess. The vast majority of load balancing algorithms on VIPs are round robin-based. Fine for http requests from a single UI and that's about it.

This application allows balancing of the services - not the servers.

I've worked w/ 2 or 3 apps written w/ database abstraction in mind. They use BLOB's in all the table columns and the middleware handles the referential integrity.

1. Performs like CRAP
2. Good luck debugging when you have an issue, especially when your primary key, aka acct number is hidden in a BLOB column causing issues at the db level.

Oh... and these folks were self-proclaimed geniuses.

Yes, but PM's think Agile is a license to introduce changing requirements through-out the first three stages.

I would give them a free pass if they would have made these packages available to everyone. If not... good for Oracle.

So much for "Don't be evil".

This guy has a lot of nerve telling other folks what programming language to use.

Microsoft is still lost since their tactic of "give the people something that kinda looks the same but cheaper" didn't work for the Zune.

I am not familiar w/ the Washington petition, so help me out here... if a person is for "civil-union" but is against "gay marriage", this person ia a bigot?

I thought one of the "quirks" of saab's was the push button starter - which GM killed infuriating loyal saab owners and further pushing the brand into oblivian.

For that text pager message: "Finished arming the detonating device, Herr Cheney".

I wouldn't step foot in a Walmart where I live. Crowded... cluttered aisles... dirty. But a place I visit in WV where the Walmart has no competition... its clean, very organized and very Target-like. It seems when they get serious about their business, they do fine. I would be worried if I was Amazon.

And that is the problem. Everyone thinks the glamour is the new code... which they invariably *screw* up and expect someone else to come in and fix those "details". Developers/Architects suffer from ADD.

Really... how could the director of the department how no idea what was going on w/ the contracting? Uhh... that IS his job. Lord knows the guy wasn't doing any *real* work like architecture.

He was funny mocking George W. but he has become a parody of himself lately and he's not that funny. When his show is cancelled next year, people will be asking "Colbert who?"

Mgt: "Quick... mock up some electric-car to help w/ our plea for bailout money so they don't think we're not forwarding-thinking w/ inept management".

Anyone who falls for this trick deserves the billions being thrown down the tubes. Inept management coupled w/ a draconian union equals insolvency.

What terrorist attack on US soil after 9/11? You're just another "inside job" conspiracy nut job. Go away.