Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Cambridge, MA – Winter 2009
I walked around the Harvard Square area a bit with Christian and shot some photos. I haven’t been shooting much since I moved back East from Seattle, so it was good to get out and take some pictures, although the pictures don’t really capture how COLD it was:)
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Saturday Morning Chores
This Saturday I finally tackled a chore that had been waiting for a week: cleaning some guns:
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Pumpkins!
Photos of our pumpkins from Halloween of this year: [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
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Terrible Code
[java] request.setParameter("qualifySkus", getSkusRepository(d, cItem)); [/java] “qualifySkus” is confusing. Is it an array/list/collection of “qualifiedSKUs” or a flag that’s a result of “qualifyingSkus” or…. “qualifySKus” should be a constant with a nice comment, not an in-line String. The method getSkusRespository seems like it would return a catalog repository, doesn’t it? Instead it takes in a List…
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Plumbing
A chronically annoying hot water tap in the downstairs bathroom finally gave up any pretense of actually shutting off the water. Unfortunately the under-sink shut off valve was also corroded to the point where it wouldn’t shut off the water either. So we had a steady stream of hot water coming out of the sink.…
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Flush the Cache Droplet Upon CA Deployments
Hopefully you’re already using the ATG Cache Droplet extensively in your ATG eCommerce application, as I recommended in my ATG Performance Tuning post on Improving JSP Serving Time for an ATG Application. If you are, you’re probably using a smaller value for the cacheCheckSeconds parameter than you’d like, in order to prevent stale data after…
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