We interrupt our series on installing Railo 3.0.2 on CentOS for an important announcement. Railo 3.1+JBoss is now available.
This is not the version we are using in our series, but once we complete this series of installation tutorials, we will revisit with the new Railo.
Where were we? Oh yes, we just got Apache running and had a beer. OK, those things out of the way let's get MySQL installed. This is not that tough at all, but there are a few gotcha's that I ran into when trying to get Railo and my Dev Tools on the laptop to connect to the server and we will address those as well.
There are several articles on how to install Railo on Centos scattered about the web and many of them do a good job catering to those of us with limited *nix experience. The problem I found is that none of them seemed to be complete and/or accurate as new versions of everything have been released recently. I spent this weekend working thorugh all of the kinks and frustrations of learning to use SSH to setup up my server and the different problems that arised follwing these articles. My goal is that by the end of this post you will be able to avoid some of the problems I enoucntered and have a better understanding of what is going on during the installation. So without further ado, let's begin shall we.
Apple did it with the iPod and now it appears Amazon is doing it with the Kindle. Much like MP3 players, Amazon is taking a technology that has been around for awhile and bringing it to the masses. As, an owner of the Sony Reader, I am happy to see this happening. While not in the format of my choice, and likely to cause another format war, this is a good thing. Most magazines are trying their hand at digital distribution, as are many book publishers. Some have gotten it right, many are getting it wrong.
Take, for example, Servo, Nuts N Volts and Make magazines. All offer digital subscriptions and all suffer from forcing you into their reader. This is a shame as the eReaders cannot load these and enable you to take them on the road. Then you have Fusion Authority, Flex Authority and GroovyMag. These publishers went with PDF format and while that is better it is not perfect. I have to commend GroovyMag for working towards the solution. They are currently working on Kindle and Sony Reader formats which is awesome news. This is what everyone should be doing.
There has been a lot of talk lately about the economy, the government\'s bailout plan, the effect of taxes on the entrepreneur and it has been mostly doom and gloom. Heck, just today the stock market hit 7200. While all of these things can be worrisome and cause for concern, let us not make this a self-fulling prophecy and lose sight of what makes us entrepreneurs in the first place. Innovation and the willingness to take the risk and bet on the come.
Most companies (including your competitors) are busy "Right Sizing" and protecting their existing capital and not planning for recovery, future growth and R&D on their products. I say seize this moment. Do what we do best, take a chance. Most of us are "small" and with that comes great agility
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