All Posts — Digital Sanctuary

Worn leather tool belt on a wooden fence post filled with a compass, level, measuring tape, and folded map in golden-hour light.

Real-world skills - communication, time management, problem-solving - rarely taught in school but critical everywhere else.

Career & Business

A handcrafted ceramic bowl with cobalt and amber glaze, lit by warm raking light on a wooden surface.

Devon

July 30, 2008 2 min read

Doing The Best Job You Can

Excellence in any job - architect, plumber, salesman - means pushing beyond minimum and delivering your absolute best.

Career & Business

Steel filing cabinet with open drawers in a sunlit clearing, white paper cranes dissolving into geometric grids as they fly upward.

Devon

July 22, 2008 1 min read

Pixily - Go Paperless!

Pixily mails your documents back as searchable PDFs after professional scanning - instant organization without buying equipment.

Productivity Tools

Devon

July 16, 2008 1 min read

Push Ups

Week 4, Day 2: 112 pushups completed - arms twitching from the workout, but major progress happening.

Life & Personal Fitness

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Devon

July 16, 2008 1 min read

Some pictures from Vancouver (not the latest trip)

Photo collection from Vancouver (archive shots, not the latest trip).

Life & Personal Travel Photography

A lone carnival tent glowing orange from within under a deep indigo starlit sky at midnight.

Devon

July 11, 2008 1 min read

Anticipation for Sequels

Midnight showing of Hellboy 2 with friends - director of Pan's Labyrinth plus Ron Perlman equals unmissable film event.

Life & Personal Travel

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Devon

July 9, 2008 1 min read

OMG Push Ups

Crossed the threshold: triceps now the weak link after 105 pushups in 8 minutes - new fitness milestone achieved.

Life & Personal Fitness

Geometric ceramic molds and freshly cast clay objects on a stone surface under diffused daylight.

Devon

July 9, 2008 1 min read

Protocol Buffers

Google's Protocol Buffers: XML binding but faster and simpler, with automatic parsing and serialization built in.

Software Development

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Devon

July 7, 2008 1 min read

Week 3, Day 1 - Still More Push Ups

Week 3, Day 1: 99 pushups in 6 minutes despite soreness - running routine adding leg workouts to the mix.

Life & Personal Fitness

A bald eagle perches on a dock piling at a forested Pacific Northwest inlet under overcast light.

Devon

July 6, 2008 2 min read

Vancouver and Push Ups

Vancouver by train: four hours along the coast, bald eagles, restaurants, models on every street - perfect getaway city.

Life & Personal Travel

Close-up of brass graduation marks on a worn wooden yardstick resting on rough pine boards in warm amber light.

Devon

July 4, 2008 1 min read

Even More Push Ups

Day 3, Week 2: 79 pushups in 12 minutes - 11 more than last week; consistent progress tracking improvement.

Life & Personal Fitness

A crimson dried rose with a sharply snapped stem lying on cracked grey concrete under harsh overhead light.

Devon

July 2, 2008 2 min read

Wanted: Broken Noses

Great action movie, but an honest account of what a broken nose actually feels like - and it's nothing like Hollywood glamorizes.

Life & Personal

A compressed steel coil spring under a granite slab on rough concrete in cool grey sidelight.

Devon

June 27, 2008 1 min read

More Push Ups

68 pushups in 12 minutes proves the training program works: even fatigued, you're stronger than when you started the week.

Life & Personal Fitness

A coiled steel spring compressed at one end and extended at the other, resting on rough concrete in raking light.

Devon

June 26, 2008 1 min read

Push Ups

Six-week program claims you'll hit 100 consecutive pushups with just 3 sessions weekly. Starting at 17, the test begins.

Life & Personal Fitness

Dense field of sunflowers with visible seed heads, bathed in warm golden side-lighting against a late-afternoon sky.

Devon

June 23, 2008 1 min read

Publish!

Developers should publish open source, write blogs, and keep learning - it benefits careers, companies, and hiring alike.

Career & Business Open Source

Colorful directional arrows on a wooden post in a sun-bleached coastal plaza pointing toward different horizons.

Devon

June 20, 2008 1 min read

Interesting article about 10MinuteMail in the Taipei Times

10MinuteMail gaining traction internationally because it's available in multiple languages - unlocking global audiences matters.

10MinuteMail Open Source

Concrete dam holding back dark churning water, intact while a smaller overflow channel crumbles beside it.

Devon

June 18, 2008 1 min read

Why I love Debian (and PostgreSQL)

Load average 239+ but SSH worked perfectly: Debian + PostgreSQL kept systems responsive even under extreme duress.

DevOps & Infrastructure Performance Linux

Three ceramic vases side by side: two densely packed with flowers, one with a spare elegant arrangement of three stems.

Devon

June 12, 2008 1 min read

Design Comparison

Ulta.com crushes Sephora and Drugstore.com on design clarity and visual appeal - simple doesn't mean boring.

Tech & Gear

A polished silver master key connected by rods to six brass lock cylinders on dark slate.

Devon

June 8, 2008 2 min read

JForum SSO (single sign-on) and Atlassian Crowd

SSO bridge between JForum and Atlassian Crowd syncs user groups automatically - no separate forum login needed.

Software Development Java

Devon

June 6, 2008 1 min read

Launch of the ATG Developer Community!!!

Free ATG Developer Community launches with wiki, forums, code hosting, and issue tracking for open-source projects.

10MinuteMail Open Source

10 Skills You Need That You Won't Learn In School

Doing The Best Job You Can

Pixily - Go Paperless!

Push Ups

Some pictures from Vancouver (not the latest trip)

Anticipation for Sequels

OMG Push Ups

Protocol Buffers

Week 3, Day 1 - Still More Push Ups

Vancouver and Push Ups

Even More Push Ups

Wanted: Broken Noses

More Push Ups

Push Ups

Publish!

Interesting article about 10MinuteMail in the Taipei Times

Why I love Debian (and PostgreSQL)

Design Comparison

JForum SSO (single sign-on) and Atlassian Crowd

Launch of the ATG Developer Community!!!