Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary

  • Lazy Sunday Morning

    Actually, I woke up at 9 after 7 hours of sleep, hit the gym, did over 500 calories on the treadmill, and am now headed to get ready for the rest of my day. What’s wrong with me?!?!?!

  • Photo Shoot with the Canon 40D

    I haven’t shot with a model in quite a while, and as such my new Canon 40D has been mostly used to document trips to the aquarium, and things like that. On Wednesday I had a fantastic shoot with a model named Nori, who recently moved up to Seattle. It was great to be shooting…

  • How To Resize Uploaded Images Using Java – Better Way

    Based on helpful comments from Matt on this previous post: How To Resize Uploaded Images Using Java I have upgraded the image resizing code. The results are noticeably better in quality, even at thumbnail sizes. I wanted to share the completed new code, in case anyone needs it. Again, thanks to Matt S. for his…

  • Lost Time and My Schedule

    Firstly, I really missed that hour of lost sleep last night.  Daylight Saving Time seems like a great idea in the Fall, but man does it come back to haunt you.  So early to bed for me tonight. Secondly, after reading this post by Tim Ferriss: 24 Hours with Tim Ferriss, a Sample Schedule, I…

  • Oracle Export (exp) and Initial Extent Size Issues

    If you have a large database in Oracle, with a tablespace with say 2 gigabytes worth of data in it, and you then go in a delete a large number of rows from a large number of tables, and shrink it down to about 300 megabytes worth of data, and then you create an Oracle…

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