Author: Devon
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My Broken Leg – part 1
What Happened On Saturday July 13th, 2013, 36 hours after returning home from a whirlwind work trip across Texas, I ran in the 5K Foam Fest in Haverhill, MA with my wife and our friend Brendan. We were Team Squirrel Power, with awesome custom shirts made by Emma and Brendan. The run was a “fun…
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Shaving – Double Edge Safety Razors
Aside from a short lived bloody stint using a straight razor 15 years ago, I’ve always been a Gillette multi-blade vibrating light-up twitter-enabled razor kind of guy when it comes to preventing myself being mistaken for a rabid bear. In a recent effort to look like less of a mess I started researching how to…
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PHP and FastCGI
I’ve just converted my server and many sites from mod_php under Apache to FastCGI and php-cgi. In theory this should perform better, scale better, and generally BE better. However I’m new to it, so if you find something that is broken on being weird, let me know!
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What Should You Bring To A Track Day?
I’ve been riding motorcycles for 23+ years. My first bike was a Yamaha RT100 dirt bike when I was 10. I love the freedom, the sound, the feeling of leaning a bike through a curve, all of it. I’m lucky enough to live less than an hour and a half from the New Hampshire Motor…
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Triptease
I travel a lot. For business and pleasure. Lately I’ve been lucky enough to beta test a just launched site called TripTease, which is a photography and travel review/post site. Photography leads the way with a single great photo you took. A short description, and a rating of the location accompany the photo. It’s a…
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Want an even better job? :)
While the ATG job opportunity at TOMS is pretty sweet, Spark::red is also hiring! I might be a bit biased but I think Spark::red is an amazing place to work. First, the jobs: We’re looking for sys admins, jboss admins, or technical ATG folks (architects, deployment specialists, etc…) to join our sys ops and support/deployment/load…