I am Devon Hillard

I am a technologist and entrepreneur. I have specialized in ATG/Oracle eCommerce for the last 15 years, and am a Java/J2EE Architect. I am one of three founders of Spark::red a premium ATG Managed Hosting provider. Eight years ago we were three guys in a coffee shop, now we employ over 30 people and host sites for the Fortune 1000. I also created 10MinuteMail, a simple and secure temporary e-mail provider which gets about 3.5 million page views a month.

Recent Posts:

OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock Review

Devon2017-05-15T14:57:35+00:00May 15th, 2017|Tags: apple, mac, Review, Thunderbolt, USB|2 Comments

I was lucky enough to receive a pre-release demo unit of OWC’s upcoming Thunderbolt 3 Dock and I wanted to write a review of my experience with it. I’ve had one of the new 15” Apple [...]

Session and Memory Leak on Wildfly 10

Devon2016-06-28T15:41:00+00:00June 28th, 2016|Tags: 10MinuteMail, Deltaspike, Java, JBoss, performance, Seam|9 Comments

I recently re-wrote 10MinuteMail, my secure temporary email service, updating it from Seam 2 and JBoss 4.2 to Deltaspike and Wildfly 10. Unfortunately I noticed a memory leak in the JVM. During beta testing, the [...]

Oracle Commerce Cloud – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Devon2016-06-08T13:16:30+00:00June 8th, 2016|Tags: ATG, cloud, oracle|8 Comments

What is Oracle Commerce Cloud? Oracle has been working on their Oracle Commerce Cloud offering for a while, pre-released first in the early Spring of 2015, and publicly launched in June 2015. It was the [...]

GitHub to OmniFocus Integration

Devon2016-06-07T14:41:53+00:00June 7th, 2016|Tags: git, github, integration, omnifocus, ruby|0 Comments

I'm thrilled to announce that I've written a GitHub to OmniFocus integration. Track your GitHub issues from OmniFocus automatically! This Ruby script is based on my Jira to OmniFocus integration, but uses the Octokit gem to [...]