Monthly Archives: April 2010

professional software… really?

Lately I’ve been seeing horrible code. Sometimes it’s horribly written. Sometimes you know that it will be ridiculously hard to maintain. Sometimes it is just plain wrong. Way too many times it is over-designed, which also makes it hard to maintain. A few examples from various projects: Code written to process credit cards that displayed [...]

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Apache configuration best practice

You should follow this pattern:

1. Place all the VirtualHosts configurations in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ as .conf files (eg. www.example.com.conf)
2. Place general Apache configuration in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

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rails over java frameworks

This is a recurring conversation I’ve been having lately.

Why Rails over Java frameworks, like Struts 2?

Here are my top 4 reasons.

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