Blog Archive » January 2009

Simple git setup for new git users

Updated: January 17, 2009May 11, 2008

I recently set out to learn more about git, the new content manager for source code. "New", as in much younger than Subversion , and a hell of a lot younger than CVS ! No one I know personally uses git yet, but I see the Ruby on Rails community starting to use it a bit, so I decided I had better get up to speed. Being the sole developer on my own Ruby on Rail pr...

Book Review: Lighttpd by Andre Bogus

Updated: January 7, 2009January 2, 2009

More Books By Packt Publishing Book Review: Lighttpd by Andre Bogus Summary: This book makes an excellent guide to the inner workings and configuration options for the Lighttpd web server. I found the book very concise and practical. It's simply packed full of real-world examples any sysadmin will love. Chapter 1: This chapter helps you get Lighttpd up and runnin...

Migration to Lighttpd

Updated: January 2, 2009December 18, 2005

Today I migrated all of my personal websites to a new server. My hosting provider offered me access to a faster server running FreeBSD and LightTPD . I have been hearing for quite some time now about the great performance LightTPD has. They have it setup so Apache can proxy requests to my vhosts on to LightTPD. I now have full control to restart any of my Rails app...