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. [...]