Yay! I got apache upgraded to 2.2 from 2.0. It was a lot easier after I was told by Aaron that Feisty has 2.2 in their apt-get repositories. I just had to update from Dapper to Feisty. Prior to updating I did have to comment out all of the repositories I had [...]

Well, I got to like the second step before I hit another roadblock. Looks like kodefoo’s repository only supports binary-i386 releases. Too bad my slice is on an AMD64 machine which means I need the amd64 release. I guess if I want to cluster mongrel with apache, I’ll have to compile from [...]

Paul Graham just wrote a very insightful piece that I hope companies take note of. The start of the essay speaks to how important it is for programmers to have the ability to store the entire context of a problem in their head so they can navigate to all the pieces they need to [...]

So I’ve still been trying to get mod_proxy_balancer installed. I tried just getting a compiled mod_proxy_balancer.so and drop it into my existing apache2 install but upon start up I get:
Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so into server: /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so: undefined symbol: proxy_hook_post_request
Looks like I have to do a clean uninstall and reinstall of apache2 from source. [...]

Here’s an interesting talk at Google by Josh Bloch, author of Java Puzzlers and special guest Bill Pugh.

I definitely learned a few things about Java from it.

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Because we have a slow network, big files to deploy, and a ping pong table, work has started to look like this:

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After hacking away at work for 15+ hours, I am looking at eclipse and I have no idea what I just wrote. But hey, it seems to work…sorta. So yay for that!

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Since I graduated college and got a real job, I’ve started to expand my knowledge around the world of investing. I opened up an account at Vanguard and started off with some mutual funds. The problem is I haven’t really put any more money in after that one-time lump sum for opening the [...]

After I installed WordPress, the first thing I did was go in search for a WordPress theme. I started off at LifeHacker. After a search for all things wordpressy, I came across a post for 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen. After scrolling down a bit, I found Peaceful Rush [...]

I have been trying to get a rails app served up by a mongrel cluster through apache. All the documentation I’ve looked at says this can be done with an Apache module mod_proxy_balancer. Looks like my apache install using apt-get does not come with that module. Blah! Guess I have to [...]