Installing Windows Server 2003 on Xen on Red Hat Linux 5

After being challenged several times during the process of installing Windows Server 2003 into a fully virtualized Xen environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5 or CentOS 5) I decided that a quick tutorial for those of you who wish to install in exactly the same way would be helpful.  There are several …

Scope Creep in Software Development

Few words strike fear into the hearts of software development managers and developers than scope creep. Long the bane of the development industry, scope creep has affected almost everyone who works on software – even those who work for themselves but especially those who report to a client providing software specifications.  The perennial question in …

Installing ruby-sqlite3 on Red Hat or CentOS Linux

For my development environment, I like to SQLite3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS.)  When working with the gem installer for the sqlite-ruby package I kept getting an error on my newest machine.  I searched online and found no answers anywhere while finding many people having this save problem.  I have found a …

Resizing VMWare Server Virtual Disk

Today I needed to resize a VMWare Virtual Disk (vmdk) for a Windows Server 2003 image running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 host using LVM to manage the physical, local disk space.  In my case, my logical volume was too small to accommodate the vmdk expansion and so I had to grow my …

Subversion Permission Issues

In my installation of Subversion (SVN) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (a.k.a. RHEL 5 or CentOS 5), I was attempting to access my working Subversion repository through the web interface using Apache.  I came across a permissions issue giving the following errors: This one is from the Apache error log (/var/log/httpd/error_log) and is generated …