Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Server Move
I’ve just moved to a new, bigger, faster, better server. There were some transitional pains, but I think things are pretty solid now. If you had any issues with this site or with 10 Minute Mail, you have my apologies. Now we have room to grow.
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Web Services and Seam
Let’s say you have a Seam application, and you need to create some web services that tie in to it, or you are building a web service and you would like to take advantage of the Seam component model, lifecycle management, etc… How do you expose Seam functionality through web services? Let’s dive into it:
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Lions and Tigers and Third-Party Javascript
There are many reasons that you may wish to put a third-party javascript reference on your website. Serving ads, making use of tracking and analytics tools such as Google Analytics, and many other features may want to use a remotely referenced third-party javascript. The big issue here is trust. By putting a remotely referenced javascript…
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Spam
When I launched 10minutemail.com, tons of forum admins decried the idea. They screamed that it would let spammers on to their forums, and that they wouldn’t sell e-mail lists to spammers, etc… A month goes by, and let’s see what we have. My server used to get around 200-300 e-mail a day. In the past…
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10MinuteMail.com hit digg.com’s front page last night
It’s filtered down a few pages off the front, but hey, front page of digg.com! Wow! Totally grassroots in about 4 hours. Now it’s on all kinds of little blogs and tech forums and other odd places. Over 100k hits in the last 18 hours. It performs very well. There’s very little cpu hit at…
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What’s up with SMTPS?
Let’s start with SMTP. Simple Mail Transport Protocol. This is how e-mail gets sent. This is how e-mail makes it from you, to your recipient. When you check your e-mail, you use POP or IMAP to get the e-mail from the server. But when you’re sending e-mail, you use SMTP. SMTP is how your mail…
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