All Posts — Digital Sanctuary

A beautiful photograph that captures a moment worth preserving.

Life & Personal Photography

Stacked maple lumber planks and cedar offcuts on a concrete workshop floor in warm afternoon light.

Devon

June 3, 2009 3 min read

I Built a New Closet

Built a custom closet system for a fraction of California Closets' eight-grand quote using MDF and careful planning.

Life & Personal DIY

Devon

June 3, 2009 1 min read

Seam 2.x Web Development

Packt Publishing's "Seam 2.x Web Development" by David Salter is a practical guide to building web apps with Seam.

Software Development Seam

A train diverted from a direct main track onto a long winding spur line through an industrial rail yard at dusk.

Devon

May 24, 2009 3 min read

MSSQL, jTDS, NVARCHAR and Slow Indexes

MSSQL with jTDS, NVARCHAR fields, and slow indexes - a learning curve for production deployments.

Software Development Oracle

A brass pipe valve with a small gap between two flanges letting mist escape in a dim industrial basement.

Devon

May 20, 2009 3 min read

Environment specific mail auth and Seam's MailSession

Seam MailSession fails with IP-based auth - configure environment-specific mail settings in components.xml.

Software Development Java Seam Email

A slim silver SSD wafer on dark slate beside a precision screwdriver, lit with cool raking light.

Devon

May 16, 2009 2 min read

Installing an SSD in a MacBookPro

Replaced my MacBook Pro's hard drive with a 256GB SSD - dramatically faster boot and application times.

Tech & Gear macOS

Half-installed maple hardwood floor meeting bare subfloor, sawdust at the seam, pry bar resting diagonally in raking afternoon light.

Devon

May 16, 2009 2 min read

New Floors and No Sleep

Replaced stained carpet with maple hardwood flooring - a loud, disruptive multi-day process that's worth the final result.

Life & Personal DIY

Manhattan-style skyline of steel-grey and amber towers at golden hour reflected in a dark river below.

Devon

May 10, 2009 3 min read

Bachelor Party in the Big Apple

NYC bachelor party weekend: flying JetBlue, gridlocked traffic, and exploring Chelsea's upscale hotel scene.

Life & Personal Travel

A weathered surfboard and chrome helmet resting in black volcanic sand at the edge of a retreating Pacific wave.

Devon

May 4, 2009 2 min read

Hawaii

Hawaii vacation went south when a big wave destroyed my iPhone and camera - a week without a phone turned out surprisingly refreshing.

Life & Personal Travel

Metal antenna towers of varying heights connected by cables on rocky ground at dusk.

Devon

May 4, 2009 3 min read

ATG SEO - Tools and Traffic

SEO tools like SEOWorkers analyzer and Google Webmaster Tools provide keyword data and crawl insights for rankings.

Software Development ATG SEO

A branching forest path with stepping stones at each fork, dappled amber light through cedar trees.

Devon

May 1, 2009 4 min read

ATG SEO - URL Formats and Crawler Limits

Expressive URLs help both SEO rankings and user experience - avoid opaque query parameters in site structure.

Software Development ATG SEO Web Development

Aerial view of a river delta splitting into two parallel channels at golden hour, one leading to a lighthouse, one to wind chimes.

Devon

April 29, 2009 3 min read

ATG SEO - Accessibility and GoogleBot

Semantic HTML markup improves both search engine rankings and accessibility for users with disabilities - a win-win for web design.

Software Development SEO Web Development

Devon

April 27, 2009 6 min read

ATG SEO - Search Engine Optimization

Search engines reward well-built, accessible sites that follow standards - forget gaming Google and focus on creating genuinely useful content.

Software Development ATG SEO

Vintage brass hourglass with white sand on an oak countertop beside lemons and linen cloth in warm afternoon light.

Devon

April 24, 2009 3 min read

A Clean Fridge

Time blocking helped me finally tackle cleaning the fridge - a small win in managing life's never-ending household tasks.

Productivity

Magenta and violet light spilling from a metal door onto wet cobblestones in a foggy brick alleyway at night.

Devon

April 23, 2009 2 min read

The Birthday Massacre, Dommin, and Vigil

The Birthday Massacre concert in Boston's Central Square brought back memories of living in the area a decade ago.

Life & Personal

Cobblestone alley ending at a slightly open iron gate revealing a continuation of the path beyond.

Devon

April 22, 2009 1 min read

"No repository found containing" Error when update Eclipse

Eclipse plugin updates failing? Add trailing slashes to repository URLs and reimport them to fix the "No repository found" error.

Software Development Tools

Devon

April 21, 2009 1 min read

Dream Trip 2009 Contest Photo Entry

Submitted a dream trip contest photo - please vote 5-stars to help me win an Iceland hiking adventure.

Life & Personal Travel

Devon

April 21, 2009 1 min read

Reduced Prices for ATG Hosting from Spark::red

Spark::red offers aggressive ATG hosting pricing to help businesses save hundreds of thousands during economic downturns.

Career & Business ATG Spark::red

River stones sorted into rectangular clusters in a wooden tray, separated by cork strips, lit with raking afternoon light.

Devon

April 21, 2009 5 min read

Getting Things Done Using Time Blocks

Time blocking helps organize GTD tasks, development work, and life projects that don't fit traditional management systems.

Productivity Tools Creativity

Bolts of teal and rust-orange fabric hanging in a dyeing workshop, one freshly re-dyed bolt unrolled on a stone surface.

Devon

April 9, 2009 2 min read

Make A Custom RichFaces Skin

Build custom RichFaces skins by extending default CSS instead of paying for expensive design overhauls to match your brand.

Software Development Java

Picture of our house

I Built a New Closet

Seam 2.x Web Development

MSSQL, jTDS, NVARCHAR and Slow Indexes

Environment specific mail auth and Seam's MailSession

Installing an SSD in a MacBookPro

New Floors and No Sleep

Bachelor Party in the Big Apple

Hawaii

ATG SEO - Tools and Traffic

ATG SEO - URL Formats and Crawler Limits

ATG SEO - Accessibility and GoogleBot

ATG SEO - Search Engine Optimization

A Clean Fridge

The Birthday Massacre, Dommin, and Vigil

"No repository found containing" Error when update Eclipse

Dream Trip 2009 Contest Photo Entry

Reduced Prices for ATG Hosting from Spark::red

Getting Things Done Using Time Blocks

Make A Custom RichFaces Skin