Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary

  • 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:)

  • Saturday Morning Chores

    This Saturday I finally tackled a chore that had been waiting for a week: cleaning some guns:

  • Pumpkins!

    Photos of our pumpkins from Halloween of this year: [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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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