July 2013

When you’re working with Vagrant and your production servers are running FreeBSD, chances are that you also want to use FreeBSD as the Vagrant guest OS so the behaviour is consistent. The combination will not work out-of-the-box because FreeBSD doesn’t support the standard synced folder method Vagrant uses. So you need to switch to NFS sharing which needs a host-only (:private_network) network. Once you enable that, Vagrant cannot connect anymore to the virtual machine over SSH and it will look as if the machine halted.

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April 2012

Last week I was searching for a CMS to implement a relatively simple project. There are plenty of these written in PHP in all flavors one can imagine. From the only-some-pages-Joomla to the enterprise-size TYPO3 and Drupal. Especially the latter are pretty mature. However, they all have a common disadvantage for me: PHP. I don’t want to get worked up over PHP, but compared to Ruby it’s just less fun and fun is an important part of programming to me. Maybe I’ll write a post about that someday but I honestly think it’s pretty obvious.

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