I've been somewhat busy over the past few months, which has led to a definite dearth of updates, but I'm now at the point where I'm starting to work on a number of technical projects.
- As you can see, I've moved over the blog from using Wagn to using XWiki. A good piece of this has to do with the annoyance of trying to using Ruby Gems from a system administrator's perspective (running gem as root, which you normally want to do since it's installing files in /usr, then creates files that have bad permissions) and with dealing with Ruby app servers (for some reason, Passenger was magically working, and then equally magically broke). I don't love Ruby enough to fight with it, especially given how Gems are administratively unfriendly in how they're too much like the Wild West to be packaged in a native manner.
- I'm working on migrating from two physical servers to a single physical server running VMware ESXi with multiple virtualized hosts. This should allow me to better isolate systems from each other.
- Along with the above, I'm working on moving the physical server to be colocated, which should help buffer users from anything I may be doing with my connection.