At long last, after sucking most of my previous site content and blog entries from TextPattern, I’ve manage to finally deploy the new site to TextDrive now powered by SimpleLog and RoR.

I’ve previously found the documentation at TextDrive severely lacking, especially in the area of Rails application deployments, however this time around, I was pleasantly surprised by a series of articles that were a great help (along with scripts and config files) for deploying your Rails apps on Lighttpd.

Several other Rails folk I’ve spoken to have expressed concern over Lighttpd’s stability, many of whom have switched to Mongrel. I’m hoping that I don’t run into any stability issues.

Previously, I also had a nice site up for JarIndexer and XafeNotes, but alas, that is no more. I can’t bother to manage a separate site, so they’ve been included in this site for now. JarIndexer is still available for download, as it seems to be somewhat widely used, but I’ve temporarily yanked XafeNotes, as I have some intention of making it free (as in beer), and need to pull out the licensing stuff from the code base. Who knows when that will happen.

About three weeks ago, I started doing some work for Orangepath, a Texas-based company, that I’m hoping will turn into a great long-term relationship. It’s a breath of fresh air to find a company built on morally upstanding principals. I’ve actually had a ton of stuff to blog and yammer about these past weeks, but my time has been spent trying to get this site up and running, instead of writing content to bore people to death. I’ll apologize in advance if there seem to be more entries than usual in the coming days.