My main Internet provider is quite good at certain services,
and they provide with that awfully nice IMAP server;
they even allow me to run procmail with my own rules to sort my e-mail into IMAP folders.
I made terrible experiences with them,
when I made some Rails experiments.
Essentially with ruby and its GEMs as well as with perl and its CPAN
you need to be able to run a C compiler yourself in order to get those nice modules built.
They don’t allow me to run a C compiler there,
so I was searching for a different solution.
Sooner or later I came across this book,
and with its help (and also with openSUSE 11.1’s new features)
I want to set up my openSUSE EC2 image.
My ideas go towards Catalyst (the perl MVC framework),
a web presence for my girl friend, who is a fine arts professional,
and of course a few web sites for my own purposes …