Archive for the ‘IT-Related’ Category

OS Installs Under VMware Server 2.0

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

My Linux server is running Fedora Core 8 – pretty old by Internet standards (the bleeding edge is FC 11). But now that the kernel patches have died off, my VMware Server 2.0 installation is… Continue reading

Configuring Passenger sub-URIs

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Passenger sub-URIs allow you to run multiple Rails aplications under one Apache virtual host, which is great for development. Although Phusion has documented how to do this, I was having trouble. Eventually I got… Continue reading

Goodbye Mongrel, Hello Passenger

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Mongrel has been a great web server for Ruby and Rails, but with the significant changes in Ruby 1.9.1 (native threads for instance), I decided to switch to Phusion Passenger and Apache. If nothing else… Continue reading

The Costs of Blogging

Friday, March 27th, 2009

My wife got a glimpse of the blog yesterday. “So, how much to set up a blog for me?”, she asks.

Good question.

There a zillion ISPs out there, but I’ll go with… Continue reading