Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Working from the Beach (or Jungle or City) – part 2 – Picking a Location
Where you travel to is a big question and there’s thousands of right answers. A few things that you may want as criteria: Affordability- living somewhere for months is a lot different than getting a hotel room for a few days. This can touch on everything from travel costs, to accommodations, to the exchange rate…
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Working from the Beach (or Jungle or City) – part 1 – Introduction
If you work in the technology field, in many cases all you need to do your job is a computer, an internet connection, and some voice communication (cell phone or VIOP). In theory you can bring a laptop almost anywhere in the world and fulfill those needs. Since I started working for myself over five…
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Recent Server Downtimes
I wanted to apologize for the recent outages of this site, and 10MinuteMail, etc… My server’s been having hard drive issues, and after a failed attempt it’s finally been cut over to a new RAID array. Things should be MUCH more stable going forward!
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More Speed!
I’ve recently setup mod_pagespeed for this site (DigitalSanctuary.com) and mod_pagespeed and CloudFlare for 10MinuteMail.com. The combination should provide excellent Front End Optimization (FEO) as well as caching and CDN performance advantages. Overall you should find my sites to be faster loading and more stable. I encourage you to check out both technologies for yourself!
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Medium
I’m really enjoying this site Medium for interesting stories. Check it out!
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Office Hours Follow Up
In January I announced an experiment: Office Hours. So far it’s been a very interesting mix of conversations. I’ve spoken with recruiters and tried to provide some insight into what makes the ATG/Oracle Commerce niche different and more difficult to find and place resources for. I’ve spoken with many people about various aspects of ATG/Oracle…
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