So I’m doing some interesting stuff at the moment which among other things has me reading up on Open Social which meant installing Shindig which before that (as the implementation I’ll be needing is Java based meant installing Tomcat.
And at this point I realised that nothing had really moved on in terms of servers / technology and setup, I know there is the argument that if you make it simple to do anyone can do it, but it should be a bit easier by now to have Apache / Tomcat running on OSX in harmony without resorting to Google and config file hacking, as it is I’ve just gone for a basic config with Tomcat running on a separate port (as per standard install) and after some memory leak issues (seemingly) have reverted back to running Tomcat as and when needed (to be fair this is more likely to have been as a result of a dodgy build of the site I was testing.
