Clogging up the Web

I got fastCGI working. I didn’t do anything differently than before, but I did notice that there were some ruby processes hanging around even after killing them with ‘kill -9′. They kept re-spawning. The dispatch.fcgi and my test.fcgi scripts were out of control. When I stopped and started Apache, it cured the problem and fastCGI […]

I decided that while using mod_proxy with WEBrick is fine for development, it would not realistically do for a production environment. With that in mind, I decided to setup fastcgi. Despite my best efforts, I could not get it to work. I could get FastCGI working with Apache, just not with Rails. I could get […]

I have been meaning to get Rails setup on my home “server” for a while now. I finally got it running yesterday and I have to say that my initial impressions are very positive. Talk about hitting the ground running.
I got things going very quickly with a Ruby / Rails frontend and MySQL 5 backend. […]

A couple of days ago I put my new “server” live. It hosts this blog and a few other things.
I put server in quotes because it really is only an old IBM Thinkpad T20 notebook that is over 5 years old. It has a 700MHz PIII, 256MB RAM and a 40GB 5400 RPM hard drive. […]

A number of new features have been added to MySQL 5.0 and I have been trying them out. Among the new features are Stored Procedures, Triggers and Views. These are features that have been around in so-called corporate databases like Oracle and DB2 (and PostgreSQL also) for years. Yesterday I added a trigger to a […]

It’s been a while since I last posted and plenty has changed. Not least the domain name. I used to use larkincunningham.com, but now I use the abbreviated version larcun.com. Larcun kinda sounds like my first name Larkin, so I think it works well.
My focus has changed somewhat from ColdFusion and PHP to Java and […]