Field Notes

After nearly a year of silence, reflections on Montreal, festivals, and returning to regular writing.

Stolen resume lands interview but fails immediately when ATG knowledge is required. Technical expertise can't be faked.

Boston ATG User Group launches with food, networking, and presentations for diverse technical audiences.

JBoss Performance Tuning book offers data-driven insights for optimizing application deployments.

Wireless networks expose personal data constantly. A VPN encrypts traffic and protects privacy everywhere.

Modern CPU cores tripled licensing costs while performance gains lag. ATG's core-based model is economically broken.

Vermont Route 100 on a Ducati Multistrada is the East Coast's perfect motorcycle road - stunning curves, no cops.

ATG's new CSC UI looks modern but loads slower and confuses users more than the bare-bones interface it replaced.

Customizing ATG CSC UI is a nightmare compared to the straightforward JSP editing that Commerce Assist allowed.

ATG CSC Search engine brings configuration complexity and Mac incompatibility to profile and order lookups.

ATG 9.1's CSC is bloated, complex, and dependent on too many moving parts compared to the simpler Commerce Assist.

10MinuteMail earned praise from a security reviewer for its clean interface and ease of use.

JBoss JMS with XA datasources silently fails to create tables - here's the fix and what we learned.

Video encoding and streaming trends show how bandwidth growth, mobile, and social are reshaping online media.

Library websites promise convenience but their poor UX defeats the purpose - a local branch's site shows the problem.

64-page guide to scaling ATG applications across hundreds of nodes with insights from AT&T's massive cluster.

10MinuteMail was selected as the best temporary email service for ease, design, and intuitive functionality.

Site speed impacts Google rankings now - here's why it matters and how Spark::red's hosting expertise tuned every layer.

Two weeks of bachelor freedom: pizza boxes, motorcycles, and surprisingly civilized philosophical debates.

Slick phishing attempt promised revenue share while dodging basic credibility questions - how they hooked readers.