Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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It’s been a long time
I haven’t posted here in close to a year. No excuses. I’m going to try to post more often going forward in order to practice writing, document what I’m doing and what I’m thinking, and share some of my life with everyone who cares to read it. I can’t hope to cover everything that’s happened…
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Stealing my Resume? Try Learning ATG First.
Apparently someone decided to copy big chunks of my resume and put her name at the top and then go apply for at least one (maybe more) ATG positions. The resume got her a phone screen, but things quickly came to a halt when it became apparent that she didn’t know ATG at all. It…
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ATG User Group in Boston!
Spark::red ATG Hosting is pleased to sponsor an ATG User Group in Boston! We invite everyone who works with ATG software and technologies to join us on January 12th (Wednesday) from 6 PM to 9 PM for an evening of great food, free drinks, networking, and a few enlightening presentations. Boston is a hub of…
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JBoss Performance Tuning and MasterTheBoss
I review technical book manuscripts for a few different publishers, and recently had the pleasure of working on an upcoming book called JBoss Performance Tuning by Francesco Marchioni. It’s coming out in December 2010 and will be a must have addition to your bookshelf if you deploy applications on JBoss. The book contains extensive performance/load…
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Why you should be using a VPN
What is a VPN? A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is basically a secure encrypted link from your computer to a computer or network somewhere else. Your computer then routes some or all of it’s network traffic over that encrypted link. Typically they are used to get access from secure private or corporate networks from…
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The True Cost of ATG’s Core Based Licensing
This is a follow up from a post I made 8 months ago: Why ATG’s Core Based Licensing is Stupid With the new Westmere hex-core CPU’s out now, the problem has gotten worse. A mid-high or high end Westmere CPU presents as 12 cores. So what does this really mean? I just ran the numbers,…
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