All Posts — Digital Sanctuary

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First retirement account opened as a contractor - building future security finally becomes unavoidable reality.

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June 19, 2007 3 min read

Fix your life in only 30 days! Or 90. Or the rest of it.

New job arrival triggers a life-improvement plan targeting health, wealth, productivity, and organization - 30 days to reset habits.

Productivity Fitness

Devon

June 19, 2007 1 min read

Endings and Beginnings

Leaving Cingular after four and a half years to contract remotely for Resource Interactive - freedom and focus replace juggling.

Career & Business Remote Work

Devon

June 12, 2007 1 min read

Don't forget to tighten your lugs

A simple reminder about motorcycle maintenance with consequences.

Motorcycles & Cars DIY

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Devon

June 10, 2007 1 min read

Iguana Dreams and Shiny Things

Dreams of iguana swimming matches real-world obsession with Bejewled 2 - win or lose, the gaming passion runs deep.

Life & Personal

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Devon

June 10, 2007 2 min read

Firefox, xhtml, JBoss 4.2.0, JSF, and Google Ads

Firefox rendering failures for Google ads explain a revenue drop after JBoss upgrade - sometimes the culprit is unexpected.

DevOps & Infrastructure JBoss Seam

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Devon

June 9, 2007 1 min read

Spinning Class

8:30 AM Saturday spinning class tortures the body, but caramel soy chai makes redemption almost possible.

Fitness

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Devon

May 29, 2007 2 min read

How to cleanout your postfix queues by sender

A massive postfix queue backup teaches lessons in email management - qshape uncovers hidden bottlenecks before they cripple the server.

DevOps & Infrastructure Linux Email

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Devon

May 21, 2007 2 min read

Java One '07

Java One 2007 delivered overwhelming scale with thousands attending - but surprisingly, Apple laptops ruled sessions and hallways alike.

Software Development Java

Devon

May 21, 2007 1 min read

Welcome

Fresh start for Digital Sanctuary with a redesigned site and commitment to regular posting.

Life & Personal

Devon

April 21, 2007 1 min read

Server Move

A server migration brings growing pains but opens the door to future expansion after years of constraints.

DevOps & Infrastructure

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Devon

April 10, 2007 2 min read

Web Services and Seam

Expose Seam components through web services using the JBoss component model - no magic, just clean architecture and lifecycle management.

Software Development Java JBoss Seam

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Devon

December 27, 2006 5 min read

Lions and Tigers and Third-Party Javascript

Third-party JavaScript on your site hands browser control to strangers - the security risks range from theft to phishing attacks.

Software Development JavaScript Security

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Devon

December 24, 2006 2 min read

Spam

10MinuteMail launched despite admin fears and proved their worst nightmare - 30,000 spam emails daily flood servers when people lose trust.

10MinuteMail Email

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Devon

November 26, 2006 1 min read

10MinuteMail.com hit digg.com's front page last night

10MinuteMail hits Digg's front page organically and handles 100k hits in 18 hours with barely a CPU hiccup - SEAM powers the success.

10MinuteMail Seam Email

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Devon

November 14, 2006 3 min read

What's up with SMTPS?

SMTP remains unchanged since 1982, but modern email demands more - SMTPS finally brings security to this ancient protocol.

Software Development Security Email

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Devon

November 9, 2006 2 min read

Index page issues when putting JBoss behind Apache

Switching from .seam to .html files in Apache-proxied JBoss breaks index pages - a gotcha that directory listings can't solve.

DevOps & Infrastructure JBoss Linux

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Devon

November 6, 2006 4 min read

PGP E-mail Encryption conceptual issue

Email encryption needs mainstream adoption - major mail programs should ship PGP support by default.

Software Development Security Email

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Devon

November 6, 2006 1 min read

My first Seam Application - 10MinuteMail

10MinuteMail delivers disposable email addresses that expire in 10 minutes - built with Seam to defeat spam.

10MinuteMail Java Seam

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Devon

November 6, 2006 1 min read

Seam example project structure

Getting Seam projects running required custom setup; here's a reusable base project structure.

Software Development Java Seam

When I'm 59 (and a half)

Fix your life in only 30 days! Or 90. Or the rest of it.

Endings and Beginnings

Don't forget to tighten your lugs

Iguana Dreams and Shiny Things

Firefox, xhtml, JBoss 4.2.0, JSF, and Google Ads

Spinning Class

How to cleanout your postfix queues by sender

Java One '07

Welcome

Server Move

Web Services and Seam

Lions and Tigers and Third-Party Javascript

Spam

10MinuteMail.com hit digg.com's front page last night

What's up with SMTPS?

Index page issues when putting JBoss behind Apache

PGP E-mail Encryption conceptual issue

My first Seam Application - 10MinuteMail

Seam example project structure