Steve Perkins "Just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him"

27Jun/110

Searching for a shared web host that doesn’t suck (3 of 3)

Shared web hosting vs. VPS or cloud providers After migrating in a hurry from a terrible shared hosting provider (part 1) to a slightly-less-terrible host (part 2)… I wanted to take my time in finding a more long-term home, where I would have the option of doing some light development. The most obvious idea these [...]

26Jun/110

Searching for a shared web host that doesn’t suck (2 of 3)

Using Google to take mail out of the shared web host picture When I decided to migrate from a previous shared host (previous post), I was most upset about the hassle of moving my mail.  That is always the least fun part of the process, involving: downloading all my remote IMAP mail to local folders [...]

24Jun/110

Using Web Deployment Assembly options to make Eclipse play nice with Maven

The Eclipse + Maven problem In contemporary Java development, there is a trilogy of unfortunate truths: Eclipse is the most predominant IDE Maven is the most predominant build system Eclipse and Maven don’t work very well together The main problem is that both of these tools are very opinionated about how projects should be built.  [...]