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Running WordPress on Docker: The Definitive Guide

December 22, 2025April 3, 2021 by Steve Perkins
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A comprehensive guide to containerizing your WordPress website.

Categories Infrastructure Tags Docker, MySQL, NGINX, WordPress

Hosted Continuous Integration Options for Java Projects

December 22, 2025October 9, 2014 by Steve Perkins

Trying out Travis CI, Codeship, Drone.io, and Shippable… to see if any of them can stack up to Jenkins for continuous integration with Java projects.

Categories Infrastructure Tags Continuous Integration, Java, Testing

WAR files vs. Java apps with embedded servers

December 22, 2025March 11, 2013 by Steve Perkins
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When should you deploy a Java app to the server as a traditional WAR file, and when should you use an embedded server in the application itself? […]

Categories Infrastructure, Programming Tags Ant, App Servers, AppFog, Groovy, Heroku, hybris, Java, Maven, Python, Ruby, Scala

How to install Oracle’s Java on Ubuntu the easy way

December 22, 2025March 5, 2013 by Steve Perkins
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Installing the Oracle JDK on Ubuntu is painful since it was removed it from the apt repositories. Restore the easy install method with this simple script. […]

Categories Infrastructure, Programming Tags Java, linux

Hosting a WordPress site on AppFog, without persistent file storage

December 22, 2025February 18, 2013 by Steve Perkins
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How to host (and upgrade) a WordPress application on AppFog, despite the cloud platform’s lack of a persistent filesystem. […]

Categories Infrastructure Tags App Servers, AppFog, Ruby, web hosting, WordPress
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