Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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HostingCon 2012
I will be on a panel at HostingCon 2012 in Boston discussing hosting providers and covering everything from Dedicated versus Cloud computing to APIs to security and performance. It should be a great panel so come check it out! It’s on Tuesday July 17th at 3:00 PM – From the Front-Lines: Boston Area SaaS and…
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Content Thief – -redacted-
I woke up this morning to discover that someone had stolen one of my ATG Performance blog posts, word for word, and published it on his blog, as if he’d written it. My post about Improving JSP Serving Time for an ATG Application was copied and pasted into a new post on the…. UPDATE: The…
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Prague
Emma and I recently took a trip to London and Prague. I’ve been to London before, although it was many years ago, but this was my first time in Prague (or really anywhere in Central Europe). I’ve actually wanted to visit Prague for over a decade. I was actually trying to plan a trip and…
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Driving and Drive
Driving and Drive This is a two topic blog post written hilariously late. As a long time New Englander, someone who grew up in and learned to drive in the snowy mountains of Vermont, and someone who has a very strong interest in driving and motor-sports, I consider myself a great winter driver. I’ve spent…
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Apache Web Performance
I presented last night at the Boston Web Performance Meetup on the topic of Apache Performance. You can read more about it here: http://www.meetup.com/Web-Performance-Boston/events/52427902/ It was a great crowd, lots of smart and interested people, with lots of good questions. I had a great time. EDIT: Here is the video of my presentation. Apparently I…
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rsync is MUCH faster than scp
Working at a hosting company that specializes in J2EE application hosting, we move EARs around a lot. Typically I’ve just been using scp since rsync can easily get you into trouble if you’re pushing deltas you’re not super careful. And if you’re not pushing deltas, and pushing full ears, it makes more sense to use…
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