August 2007 Archives

Finding reliable hosting for Catalyst applications can sometimes be tricky, and choosing bad providers can create several problems to you and/or your company. I therefore started to maintain a page on the Catalyst community wiki devoted to web hosting of Cat applications:

http://dev.catalystframework.org/wiki/annotated_list_of_catalyst-friendly_web_hosting_providers

It's still in the works, but features a commented and rated list of providers for shared, VPS and dedicated hosting. Contribution if open to everybody, so if you have write access to the Catalyst wiki you can just add you providers and comments (if you add comments, put yours as the first and update the rating on the main page). If you don't have write access you can contact a Catalyst dev to get it, or send me the data and I'll update the page.

I hope it'll become a useful resource!

Information age society tends to grab most of, if not all, the time you have at your disposal, and often still asks for more. Since time is your most important resource, you need to manage it aptly, and - surprise - if you are an independent (that is, you work on your own) coder, you can do that.

If the past 12 years of coding on my own, I enjoyed good and suffered bad times. I hereby summarize some practices which work well for me, and which should help you increasing the good moments and decreasing the bad ones.