Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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And The Wheels Keep Turning
My tires had gotten bald, and in fact the metal radial belts were showing through on both front tires, so in the interests of safety I finally bought new tires. And in the interest of performance I wanted new lighter stronger rims. And in the interest of making my car look cool (grin) I wanted…
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Comcast Cable Modem
I’ve been having issues with my cable modem rebooting itself multiple times a day for the past month or so. The Comcast techs can’t figure out why. I’ve tried a new modem, router attached, router off, different wall outlets, different cables, etc… My setup has been the same for about two years, and then all…
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Happy New Year!!
I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. 2007 has been a very good year for me, and I hope that 2008 continues the trend. I hope that 2008 is a great year for everyone! We had a pretty quiet New Year’s Eve compared to last year. Two good friends came over. We cooked…
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A New Year is upon us
What are you looking forward to for 2008? Any new or upcoming technologies? Anything you’ve resolved to learning or exploring this year? I’d love to hear what you are looking forward to this year. For myself, I am looking forward to doing more Seam development. My ATG day-job has been eating a lot of my…
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Spark::red Expands ATG Hosting Offering
Today I’m shilling for an amazing company, Spark::red. They provide unparalleled managed ATG application hosting. I know and trust the folks running it, and have been working with them for a while now. They have really been stellar to deal with and have turned things around in hours and days, whereas I’d gotten used to…
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13 Steps to peace of mind
If you’re uptight about uptime, if you’re anxious about availability, if you nervously watching Nagios, have I got the program for you. Forget 12 step programs, mine has 13! First let’s talk load balancing. Load balancing is basically distributing some type of load across multiple servers or resources. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll assume…
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