Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Why I Love Having 8 Gigs of RAM
I recently upgraded my primary computer from a 15″ MacBookPro with 4 GB of RAM to a 17″ MacBookPro with 8 GB of RAM. That probably sounds gratuitous. Here’s why it’s not: I’m currently running: Mac OS 10.5.6 Adium (IM chat client) Mail.app (e-mail client) iCal (calendar application) iTunes (music) OmniFocus (GTD todo list) TextMate…
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10MinuteMail Update
I’ve just launched a few minor changes to 10MinuteMail which will hopefully improve the user experience. – I’ve moved the explanatory text off of the home page to an About page. The old index page was way too text heavy, and was frankly badly written (I didn’t use a copyeditor and once it had been…
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Ant Exec Spawn Jobs Broke Under Hudson?
A recent update of Hudson, a great continuous integration engine, has fixed one bug, only to introduce a new one. On February 19th, 2009, Hudson bug #2729 (an issue about Hudson not cleaning up run-away processes after the build is complete) was fixed by Hudson now killing off all processes created by the build task,…
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Smush.it Shrinks Your Images
In my post on Improving Secondary Asset Loading Time in order to increase the performance of your web application I briefly touched on shrinking your media files to the smallest size that will give you acceptable quality. Rather than waste your time playing with Photoshop export settings for each image, you can now use Smush.it,…
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RichFaces Refcardz from DZone
DZone has added a new, free, quick reference sheet (Refcardz) for RichFaces. It’s a six page PDF that covers everything from how to install RichFaces, to the basic concepts of using RichFaces, all the way through information on each a4j and rich tag and example usage. Refcardz are free, and so far I’ve been very…
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Always Think About Ways To Sell Your Brand
Our next door neighbor has had a tree service working at his house for the past couple of days. They are trimming trees, cutting down trees, and removing fallen branches. It’s not quiet work, so all the surrounding neighbors know what’s happening. And we’re all thinking the same thing: “Oh! I should really get around…
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