Archive for January, 2008

Deploying Rails with Mongrels on a Shared Web Server
Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Rails probably won’t be the next big thing. With behemoths like ASP.NET offering tight integration with existing desktop apps and household names like PHP now bundled with every Linux distribution, Rails doesn’t have enough to offer the run-of-the-mill web developer to win them over.
But some know.
Once you’ve learned Rails (and thus Ruby), you think of [...]

Serious Neckpain: Virtual Mail Hosting with Postfix and DBMail
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

It’s supposed to be easier this way, right? Doing virtual mail hosting with mbox files is just asking for it. My manager recommended dbmail over dovecot, and he’s a smart guy, so I’ll go with it. It can’t be that hard. Much to my chagrin, there isn’t a single recent howto [...]