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Dozens of rolled paper cylinders arranged by height in a shallow wooden tray under warm raking morning light.

Safari's RSS "View All" feature is a game-changer for reading multiple feeds at once.

A single wooden crate lit by a narrow amber beam in a shadowy warehouse, surrounding crates lost in darkness.

September 9, 2009 3 min read

Focused and Unfocused Shopping

Online shopping splits into focused buying (you know what you want) and unfocused discovery - each offers unique advantages.

Life & Personal

An ornate frosted layer cake with gold leaf and chocolate drips glowing under a spotlight against a dark background.

Devon

September 8, 2009 2 min read

Cake Bastards

"Cake Bastards" - a pitch-perfect TV show concept: bake an amazing cake for someone, eat it in front of them, and laugh.

Life & Personal

Rubber stamps with geometric faces in a wooden tray, one mid-press over cream paper, with ink pads in charcoal, rust, and slate blue.

Devon

September 2, 2009 3 min read

Eclipse Auto Complete Templates for ATG

Eclipse templates save time and improve code quality by automating commonly repeated code blocks.

Software Development ATG Tools

Devon

August 31, 2009 1 min read

Back from vacation

Back from Puerto Rico with amazing memories - sun, beaches, rain forests, and iguanas. 2,000 emails waiting though.

Life & Personal Travel

Nested metal shipping containers in slate grey and brick red stacked on a concrete dock at dusk.

Devon

August 24, 2009 1 min read

ATG Commerce MC Edition Hosting Bundle

Spark::red's ATG MC Edition hosting bundle makes launching Commerce applications faster and cheaper for mid-market customers.

10MinuteMail Spark::red

Devon

August 14, 2009 1 min read

P-Town

Quick thought on Portland.

Life & Personal Travel

Devon

August 4, 2009 1 min read

In Chelmsford even the squirrels are tough!

A surprisingly tough squirrel found its way to my doorstep - straight out of The Godfather.

Life & Personal

A sealed glass jar of compressed layered sand with a hairline crack, on weathered wood in warm light.

Devon

August 2, 2009 3 min read

Google Speed!

Google's speed optimization guidelines emphasize smaller code size, but avoid over-optimizing CSS at the cost of maintainability.

Software Development Performance

Fresh-cut maple plywood sheet with exposed grain layers leaning against a sunlit concrete workshop wall.

Devon

July 13, 2009 2 min read

New Office

Custom desk build for my home office - designed for corner placement, knee-free rolling, and cable management.

Life & Personal DIY

Aerial view of a tide pool with hermit crabs clustered unevenly across wet rocky basin in amber light.

Devon

July 13, 2009 1 min read

Looking for abusive clients in your web server logs

Find IPs hammering your web server with a single command: `cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nk 1`

DevOps & Infrastructure Security Linux

Two small wooden boats docked at a harbor at dusk with a cargo ship anchored in the distance.

Devon

July 11, 2009 8 min read

Server Backups to S3

After a hard drive failure, I moved backups to Amazon S3 - cheap, remote, and fast enough for cost-effective disaster recovery.

DevOps & Infrastructure AWS

Devon

July 7, 2009 1 min read

Featured Member at HowGoodIWas.com!

Featured member at HowGoodIWas.com - a sports bragging and social networking site worth checking out.

Career & Business

Row of mismatched antique clocks on a stone shelf, ranging from a slow brass carriage clock to a swift silvered mantel clock.

Devon

July 1, 2009 2 min read

JavaScript Speeds

IE 7's JavaScript engine runs 10x slower than Safari 4, making it painful for AJAX-heavy interfaces.

Software Development JavaScript Performance

Cracked ceramic mosaic floor with slate and blue tiles breaking apart to reveal bare concrete beneath.

Devon

June 16, 2009 1 min read

Hard Drive Fail

Server hard drive failed - don't forget to back up /etc and apt package lists along with your data.

DevOps & Infrastructure Linux

Devon

June 10, 2009 1 min read

3G Card Speeds

3G card speeds at Logan airport are surprisingly solid.

Tech & Gear

Devon

June 10, 2009 1 min read

At Logan

Delayed at Logan with power and internet - heading to Seattle for projects and friends despite Emma being sick.

Life & Personal Travel

Two bonsai trees side by side, one minimal and spare, the other dense and complex, in soft morning light.

Devon

June 8, 2009 3 min read

Why I like jQuery (over Dojo)

Switching from Dojo to jQuery reveals how much simpler AJAX-driven interfaces become with a better framework.

Software Development JavaScript Tools

Wrought-iron balcony with Mardi Gras beads overlooking a narrow New Orleans street with pastel facades and Spanish moss.

Devon

June 7, 2009 2 min read

New Orleans 2009

Emma and I explored the French Quarter, attended a wedding, and soaked in New Orleans' unique atmosphere despite lingering hurricane damage.

Life & Personal Travel

Close-up of a green circuit board with copper coils, capacitors, and silver heat spreaders under raking side-light.

Devon

June 5, 2009 1 min read

MacBookPro Guts

17-inch unibody MacBook Pro teardown shows the internal engineering behind Apple's premium laptop design.

Tech & Gear macOS

Safari RSS Feed Goodness

Focused and Unfocused Shopping

Cake Bastards

Eclipse Auto Complete Templates for ATG

Back from vacation

ATG Commerce MC Edition Hosting Bundle

P-Town

In Chelmsford even the squirrels are tough!

Google Speed!

New Office

Looking for abusive clients in your web server logs

Server Backups to S3

Featured Member at HowGoodIWas.com!

JavaScript Speeds

Hard Drive Fail

3G Card Speeds

At Logan

Why I like jQuery (over Dojo)

New Orleans 2009

MacBookPro Guts