Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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JBoss JMS Doesn’t Create Tables with XA Datasource
The JBoss Messaging service (at least on JBoss 4.3 EAP) defaults to using a local Hypersonic database. For production use you’ll want to switch away from Hypersonic to a real database, such as Oracle (in this example). If you’re using XA datasources in general, it’s tempting to go ahead and create the new DefaultDS datasource…
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Improving my Library’s Website
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Initially I was thrilled that my local library has a website where I can request books from anywhere in the library network, and when they’re ready for pickup at my local…
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Guide for Large Scale ATG Applications
Kelly Goetsch has written a very impressive 64 page guide on the development and deployment of very large scalable ATG e-Commerce applications. There’s a ton of great information (a little bit came from me!) and it’s a worth-while read, even if your application isn’t running on 200 production servers. Unfortunately you have to have an…
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Nice Review of 10MinuteMail
Based on these three factors “a) Ease of use b) Intuitive c) Clean Web Interface” 10MinuteMail was selected as the recommended Temporary E-mail Service by Inficone. You can read about it here: 10 Minute Mail – Recommended Temporary Email Service
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ATG Newsletter Went Out
Our first Spark::red ATG Newsletter was sent on Tuesday morning! We’re pleased and proud to have delivered the first of many monthly ATG Newsletters. In this newsletter we talk about the importance of improving your site performance, especially now that Google is using site performance as a search result ranking factor. We talk about Why,…
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