Site Growth

Lately, I've been experiencing a bit of growth on this site - perhaps due to my redesign efforts, but those are hardly completed and my focus right now is prepping stopmomstop.com for launch. Doing so inherently means that I get this site up to speed as I'm testing out a series of template stylings and discussion type things here on this site.

Add to the mix that my offline workload has increased, and I have begun a peripheral project of setting up an informative site about my father and I'm a little bit in the woods again. About my father - most people who know me know how important my father is to me. Almost nobody knows how truly amazing the man was. If you think about the most brilliant and accomplished person that you are familiar with and multiply that by a factor of 10, you might be getting in the neighborhood. He founded Kallestad Laboratories, Inc. and took it public, recorded an album, published a book, and invented the modern mouth guard and that's really just a few of many highlights and doesn't even touch on his scientific work which with absolutely no doubt has directly affected your life.

Back on the subject of growth - I apologize, but my queue of updated content has been depleted, so for a period we're back to reading daily musings here. I do have plans for a series of articles in the near future on the subject of SEO and Adsense/YPN publishing, as well as a few technical articles on full text searching, apache inner workings, and persistence methodologies as they relate to dynamic publishing performance. The next couple of months around here should at the very least be interesting. Please keep coming back to see the updates.

I also am very close to a beta version of the Kallestad Development Framework (like two fun-filled all nighters) and that in and of itself is very exciting. I also have a few thoughts regarding the ITIL business model and the changing of the guard in the enterprise workflow space that is happening as we speak. Linux and OSS will play a major part in the capabilities of businesses to harness refocusing capabilities, but that inherently means a significant economic change in regards to corporate spending - where the dollars are going to end up. As MySQL AB Cluster starts to gain momentum now that it has disk storage capabilities, the Sybase model is going to start to lose marketspace. The raw performance figures that I've seen show that MySQL can perform on par with Oracle in heavy load environments. The cost difference between a highly scaled oracle environment and a MySQL one? Literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. Anyhow, I'll write more on these topics in the coming weeks. Today you just get a brain dump of what is coming.