Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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10MinuteMail Performance Improvement
After having a clearly better approach to mail delivery pointed out to me by a friend yesterday, I pushed a new version of 10MinuteMail out last night. End users shouldn’t notice anything different, but behind the scenes the mail acceptance and delivery is MUCH higher performing. There should be less incoming mail delays, slow pages,…
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The Move.
We bought a house in Chelmsford, MA, outside of Boston. We moved 3,000 miles from Seattle. We’re settling into a new house. I keep meaning to write a big post about it, but I’m not sure I’ll ever get that done. So here are the high-lights: Finding and buying a house from 3,000 miles away…
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Airport Security Measures Don’t Work. Really??? :)
This is a GREAT article about how useless all the post-9/11 airport security measures are. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security
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Preventing Multiple Submits On An ATG Form
Often, you’ll want to prevent impatient users from clicking a submit button multiple times, as you can end up with multiple actions taking place, or object state can get in a bad way leading to errors. For this example we’ll assume you have a final Submit Order form that actually places the order, auth’s the…
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Wait, what?
This isn’t a political blog, and I’m not making political commentary, just WTF commentary. Aides to Gov. Sarah Palin won’t comply with subpoenas issued by state lawmakers investigating the firing of Alaska’s former public safety commissioner because Palin “has declined to participate” in the probe, her attorney general says. So it’s cool if I “decline…
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Being an Adult
The best part about being an adult is that you can spend Sunday afternoon on the couch watching cartoons, eating raw cookie dough, and playing video games.
Got any book recommendations?