Linux for Keysers | Adventures in Open Source

Just cracked open the old blog and noticed that I haven't posted since Sept (!) and I wanted to post something, so here it is. I bought a house last month so I've been a bit busy with all of that. In fact, my "me" time that I used to use to play around with all the new technology out there has been significantly reduced. I will say that I have spent a few days playing around with Tomcat6, Spring tc Server, and more than a handful of various .WAR files. I have to say I'm impressed. Incredibly powerful, simple, and useful technologies don't always find their way to the masses, but this is definitely a win. I'm still torn as to whether or not this makes more or less sense than a Python-based solution, but so far, I'm up for further investigation. What do you think? What's your favorite webapp platform and why? What languages do you tend to go to when it's "your program" and not someone else's? And for the million-dollar follow-u...

If you've added an additional virtual hard drive to an Ubuntu VM, you'll need to do the following to be able to use it effectively for a web server: Partition the drive (MBR) Create a sub-partition (EXT3 or EXT4, depending on need) Modify fstab to be able to mount the drive on boot On the other hand, if you're mounting a network storage location, it's better to use Autofs (or AutoMount, as it's called) because it'll be less drain on your network and improve access times when shared.

Here's instructions on adding LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) + Python + virtual web hosting to an Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop. Just thought I'd post this in case anyone is interested in doing this. Normally, I recommend just installing the Ubuntu Server distro which has the option of configuring most of this for you through the install process. But hey, what fun would that be? :)