I've found the cleanest way to upgrade Ubuntu is to do a fresh install.  Here is a list of steps that I take to upgrade.

I have a friend who recently informed me of their venture into the world of Linux.  I started to build up a good set of links and thought I would share.  Here you go.
 
The Ubuntu Guide - A Wiki for common setup and configuration tasks in Ubuntu.
 
Ubuntu Tweak - Simplifies some Ubuntu configuration tasks as well as application and driver installation.
 

1. Install tomcat6 via synaptic.

sudo apt-get tomcat6 tomcat6-admin

There may be some tweaks that you need to do after install.  I didn't need to change anything, but you can find help from the ubuntu help page for tomcat.

My development environment varies based on the project that I'm working with.  For my latest project I'm creating a Flex media player and though I started using Gedit, I've moved to Eclipse + Flex Builder so as to take advantage of Flex's Builders code completion feature.  Other features that I needed for this project were support for FTP, Bazaar, PHP, and JQuery.  Here are the steps I took to build the IDE for this project. 

Whenever I start to get overwhelmed with development tasks it is best for me to make a list so that I can see what needs done.  From there I can prioritize and execute.  On my current project I've been using Tasque for simple development task management.  I've found it helpful to prefix my tasks with the language it pertains to.  Tasque sorts tasks alphabetically so it naturally groups tasks of the same sort.  Happy developing!

Balanced Scale Media is proud to announce the the integration of Piwik Web Analytic software as a free feature to existing and future clients.  Existing clients will recieve login information as soon as there is a sufficient amount of data to work with.  Enjoy! 

The newly redesigned Loftus Heating and AC website is now up and running.  This site was redone from the ground up from their initial static html site.  They now have a database driven website complete with the integration of the Lennox Product API!  It is my hope that they and their customers find it to be an improvement.

Using SSH is quick to manage your webspace.  It is much faster that FTP depending on the task.  I learned today that in Linux you can store your SSH connection in a the file "~/.ssh/config" using the following format.

Host myhost1
User username1
Port 8322
HostName machine.example1.com 

Once you've edited and saved this file with your SSH configuration settings you can start ssh sessions from the command like so.

I'm happy to announce that BalancedScale.com and all client sites will now be running on a dedicated server!  That means more performance for you and a more flexible development platform for us.  We will able to offer more features and will have the resources to take on bigger clients.  Yeah, for progress!

I've been keeping documentation on my development life cycle processes.  Just recently, I realized that I could do away with a lot of these little tasks with shell scripts.  Here's a look at one of my "to-do lists" for setting up a Drupal site on my local Apache server.