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 account. I need to start making some regular investments through direct deposit or something. Get that dollar-cost averaging to work for me.
Day: August 19, 2007
Pretty WordPress themes
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 which is a great match with the title of this blog. So far, I think it’s looking good 🙂
I need mod_proxy_balancer?
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 pull down the source and build from source. Hopefully, I don’t break anything!
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Hello, World – Java
Trying out the WP-Syntax WordPress plugin:
public class Hello { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } }
Check it out at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/
Google Sitemap Generator
Here’s a pretty cool WordPress plugin that lets Google know about your blog:
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final
Apache, Tomcat, Rails
It was easier than I thought it would be to install Java and Tomcat. With a few apt-get commands, I had both Java and Tomcat up and running. The next step was to serve Tomcat through Apache. This was done by using the AJP Connector. Tomcat is running with AJP connector port 8009 and I can serve up JSPs and servlet content through Apache who is listening on port 80. Pretty slick 🙂
It was even easier to get a Rails app up and running on WEBrick on default port 3000.
Next steps will be to serve Rails content through Apache.