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Monster.com Security Breach

Monster.com breach: user IDs, passwords, emails compromised. Change yours now.

DevOps & Infrastructure Security
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Additional CDN Information

CDNs boost end-user performance 20-25% while slashing server load - geographic distribution wins.

DevOps & Infrastructure Performance
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Improving ATG Performance With a CDN

Content delivery networks serve static assets faster from servers near users, doubling perceived performance.

Software Development ATG Performance
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Improving Secondary Asset Loading Time for an ATG Application

Images and scripts kill load time - reduce file count, leverage caching, and watch metrics plummet.

Software Development ATG Performance
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Setting Cache Headers from JBoss

Cache HTTP headers from JBoss using servlet filters - control what browsers keep and for how long.

Software Development JBoss Performance
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Improving JSP Serving Time for an ATG Application

JSPs are bottlenecks; cache content sections to cut generation time, free up threads faster.

Software Development ATG Performance
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Why Is User Experience Performance So Important?

100ms slower = 1% sales drop (Amazon). Half-second delays tank Google traffic 20% - speed is revenue.

Software Development Performance
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ATG User Experience Performance Tuning

Page load speed directly impacts user behavior - ATG apps need tuning across HTML, DOM, and assets.

Software Development ATG Performance
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ATG Performance Tuning

ATG performance isn't magic. Proven strategies cut costs and lift conversions on complex e-commerce apps.

Software Development ATG Performance
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iPhoto '09 Has Face Recognition

iPhoto '09 brings face recognition - automatically organize thousands of photos by who's in them.

Tech & Gear
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Valentine's Day at the Liberty Hotel and dinner at Clink

Historic jail turned luxury hotel - the Liberty in Boston delivered Valentine's romance with quirky charm.

Life & Personal Travel Food
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Turning 29

Turning 29 stings harder than expected. Twenties slip away; thirties loom with regrets lingering.

Life & Personal
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Happiness

Fireside with your iguana while dinner simmers - add rowing machine gains and clean eating. This is happiness.

Life & Personal Fitness Food
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Home Gym

Heavy bag + rowing machine + bodyweight circuits = basement transformation into serious workout shrine.

Life & Personal Fitness
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A Brand New Year

January reflection beats resolutions - annual markers focus effort where daily grind often fails.

Life & Personal
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Note to retailers

Stop spoiling gifts. Big labels screaming contents on Christmas boxes ruin the surprise.

Life & Personal
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Snow

Seattle's freak snow and 90-mph winds. Massachusetts buried in two feet. Winter goes wild.

Life & Personal
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Comcast 50/10 Service

Comcast 50/10 launches in my area - blazing speeds after the kinks get ironed out.

DevOps & Infrastructure
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Please Stop Using Yahoo Mail

Yahoo Mail silently kills your emails despite clean records. Switch to Gmail and actually receive messages.

Software Development Email
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Free Seam Cheat Sheet

Free Seam cheat sheet from DZone - lookup annotations, schemas, and patterns in seconds.

Software Development Seam
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