All Posts — Digital Sanctuary

Weathered sideline bench with a worn football, scuffed sneaker, and folded jersey on an overgrown field at golden hour.

HowGoodIWas beta lets ex-athletes reconnect, share memories, and relive competitive glory through social media.

Software Development

Devon

May 12, 2008 1 min read

HowGoodIWas.com

HowGoodIWas.com launches its friends and family beta in four days - Google indexing post for search.

Tech & Gear SEO

Wooden sluice with mesh baffles diverting murky water to a side trench while clean water flows forward.

Devon

May 11, 2008 4 min read

SPAM Filtering

SpamAssassin plus Mail.app filters manage spam burden effectively - IMAP junk folder safeguards false positives.

Productivity Email Tools

Charcoal hard-shell suitcase, slate blue messenger bag, and silver compact camera on a sunlit stone train platform.

Devon

May 10, 2008 4 min read

Travel Gear

The Tom Bihn laptop bag became my travel essential - light, roomy, and built for both adventures and coffee runs.

Tech & Gear Travel

Two croissants on a marble café table, one deeply golden and flaky, the other pale and soft, in warm morning light.

Devon

May 10, 2008 1 min read

French Croissants

French croissants are light, flaky, buttery. Ours are dense, greasy lead weights - there's no comparison.

Life & Personal Food

White yacht masts reflected in turquoise harbor water with terraced vineyards on a hillside behind.

Devon

May 10, 2008 1 min read

France

A week in South France: Monaco supercars, Bandol wine region, Juan-les-Pins yachts, and jet-lag adventures.

Life & Personal Travel

Vintage film projector reel with a kinked celluloid strip caught mid-spin under amber spotlight.

Devon

May 9, 2008 1 min read

YouTube Gets Stuck After 2 Seconds

YouTube stopped playing after two seconds until downgrading Flash from 9.0.124.0 to 9.0.47.0 fixed it.

Tech & Gear

Copper pipe junction with mismatched threaded fittings branching from a central valve in a dim industrial basement.

Devon

May 4, 2008 1 min read

Updates to the ATG RSS Feed Module

ATG RSS Feed Droplet now supports configurable character encodings - reformatting breaks feeds, so beware.

Software Development ATG

Small green saplings with visible shallow roots growing from cracked dry clay earth under pale overcast sky.

Devon

April 24, 2008 1 min read

Will Tech Startups Be The Hero This Recession?

Tech startups carry no debt and don't depend on luxury spending, so they'll weather this recession far better than last time.

Career & Business

Devon

April 23, 2008 1 min read

Vanity Plates

Andrea saw a Boston Marathon license plate in Boston - the ultimate vanity plate flex.

Motorcycles & Cars Opinion

Devon

April 22, 2008 1 min read

Trip to San Francisco

Attended Startup School in San Francisco - full coverage across two blog posts on Friday and the weekend.

Career & Business Travel

A mountain trail forking at dusk, one path rising toward an illuminated peak, the other descending toward a lit valley below.

Devon

April 22, 2008 4 min read

Startup School 2008 - Saturday & Sunday

Y Combinator's Startup School 2008 packed the auditorium early with eager founders - here's what it felt like to be there.

Career & Business Opinion

Airplane wing at sunset above a glowing city grid transitioning from violet sky to golden horizon.

Devon

April 22, 2008 4 min read

Startup School 2008 - Friday

First flight on Virgin America First Class: luxury that rivals Qantas with two-person legroom in a narrow cabin.

Travel

Devon

April 21, 2008 1 min read

10MinuteMail Video on Revver

Someone made a how-to video for 10MinuteMail - user-created content is the best kind of product validation.

10MinuteMail

Devon

April 18, 2008 1 min read

Heading to StartupSchool

Heading to Startup School this weekend - if you're there, email me.

Life & Personal Travel

A lone leather suitcase on a dark tarmac at night, lit by cold runway lights with fog drifting across.

Devon

April 18, 2008 2 min read

To Columbus and Back

Columbus trip: 4:30 AM flight, jet lag at midnight, interviews on zero sleep - the startup grind is real.

Career & Business Remote Work Travel

Devon

April 14, 2008 1 min read

Adding the "Upload Image" Button in the ACC

Russell Moore figured out how to add upload image functionality to the ATG Commerce Center for custom binary properties.

Software Development ATG

Flat tulip field in scarlet and yellow rows with a wooden trebuchet silhouette and oyster shells in the foreground.

Devon

April 14, 2008 2 min read

Tulip Country

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival with overheating brakes, sparse color, daffodils, and a 15-foot trebuchet.

Life & Personal Travel Photography

Frosted glass panel with a dark void center beside a pressurized copper pipe in a dim warehouse.

Devon

April 14, 2008 2 min read

RichFaces Modal Panels, s:graphicImage, and IE6

RichFaces modal panels break in IE6 when using s:graphicImage - use a Servlet workaround instead.

Software Development Seam

Vintage red motorcycle on a dewy country road beneath oak branches with early spring buds.

Devon

April 12, 2008 1 min read

Spring is Upon Us

First motorcycle ride of spring: a short trip to the library that reminds you how rusty you've gotten.

Motorcycles & Cars

HowGoodIWas.com Beta Launch

HowGoodIWas.com

SPAM Filtering

Travel Gear

French Croissants

France

YouTube Gets Stuck After 2 Seconds

Updates to the ATG RSS Feed Module

Will Tech Startups Be The Hero This Recession?

Vanity Plates

Trip to San Francisco

Startup School 2008 - Saturday & Sunday

Startup School 2008 - Friday

10MinuteMail Video on Revver

Heading to StartupSchool

To Columbus and Back

Adding the "Upload Image" Button in the ACC

Tulip Country

RichFaces Modal Panels, s:graphicImage, and IE6

Spring is Upon Us