Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
I applied for long term disability insurance. Not because I anticipate problems, but because I don’t want Vicki and I to end up broke and homeless if I can’t work.
After review of your application, we regret to inform you that we are unable to issue a policy to you because of your longstanding history of multiple joint problems.
Because if there is one thing that would prevent me from typing all day, it’s chronic knee pain.
I’ve just discovered lighttpd, a small memory footprint web server that supports all the stuff I currently use on my Linode – it’s got server side includes, fast cgi, simple virtual hosting, and mod_rewrite type redirection. And Ruby on Rails supports it. Ruby on Rails also supports SQLite, a small memory footprint SQL RDBMS.
Considering the small memory on my linode, I’m thinking that a transition from Apache and MySQL to lighttpd and SQLite might be just the ticket to improve the performance. Which will be important if I start playing around with Ruby on Rails, because these “do everything including the kitchen sink” things tend to be memory and CPU hogs.
Now I’m trying to figure out how to test a transition. I could install both of them on my home server and run it on another port. I could install both of them on my linode and run it on another port. Both of those options have the problem that it’s not a 100% accurate test, because I’d have to change the code to support a different port, and then change it back if/when I make it the true thing. Another possibility is to buy another Linode for a few months and try it out there.