Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Dub
Last night we went to the Nectar Lounge in Seattle, to see our friends perform. The band they are in is the Heavyweight Dub Champion. The samples I had heard on iTunes were a little too far into the Reggae realm for my preference, but I thought it would be cool to see my friends…
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Apache Proxy & Making Things Look Nice
I recently setup a dev/build server with Jira, Confluence, Hudson, ATG (with two web apps and the atg admin), Oracle (with web admin), and Postgres (with web admin). I’m running everything independantly, and everything is listening on it’s own high number port. This makes the URLs ugly, and finding what you want tricky. I used…
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Warm and Cosy
There’s a fire in the wood stove, home-made banana bread in the oven, hot chocolate in my mug, music on the stereo, and a cold wet world outside. So I’m a happy camper. It’s amazing how much lower my stress levels are with my new job and working from home. I got a ton done…
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The Picnic Point Facility
This weekend we investigated the Picnic Point Facility, a secret government research compound. Checkout the full story with pictures here: The Picnic Point Facility Just keep clicking “next” until you get to the end.
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Grownups
First of all, thanks to Christian for showing me this really amazing web comic: http://xkcd.com There are some real gems in there (and some swearing). Anyhow, I often feel like we sort of trap ourselves based on our own ideas of conforming to normal. A common one I see all the time, and I fight…
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Coffee Houses
Today I worked in a local coffee house, Richmond Beach Coffee Company, with Russell, a good friend and fellow ATG architect. Since I work from home it’s good to get out of the house once a week, and great to be able to talk shop in person every once in a while. The coffee house…
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