Archive for September, 2007
Rails Page Caching with Subdomains and Advanced Cache Invalidation Cron
Continuing to fight the good fight against Rails’ slowness and processor intensive handicap, I have been working a lot with page caching over the last day. I think I finally have a decent setup now. This write up talks about the Rails side of caching. This assumes that apache is serving up cached pages just [...]
Mongrel Rails + mod_proxy + mod_rewrite configuration for caching
Now that the Adamantine Arts site is getting more traffic, I wanted to implement page caching to really speed things up and prevent excessive server load. I’ll discuss page caching in Rails in more detail at another time. The problem at hand however was to get apache, mongrel, mod_proxy, and mod_rewrite to all play [...]
Building “Tag Cloud” in Rails
I am working on the new search engine for Adamantine Arts and wanted to display the top 25 queries. I thought it would be nice to display the searches in the cool tag cloud form where the more popular the search the larger the text.
So quick tutorial on how to build a tag cloud in [...]
Blue Screen of Death Tattoo
Snap. I must be a dork because I think this is slick.
Check out this Blue Screen of Death tat done by Sam Rulz at Two Hands Tattoo in Auckland, New Zealand.
The buzz over this prompted one blogger to think that Microsoft May make more crappy stuff. Oh man, if they make more crap what will [...]
Hot Pants
Sarah came over while I worked on the AA site search (I’ll write about this later). We were both loopy and delierious and there was talk of pants, googling, and being a bunch of dorks.
For the next monthly online exhibition, I looked up on google to make sure I spelled menagerie correctly and the wikipedia [...]
Adamantine Arts Business Cards
Zach Taylor, Adamantine Arts‘ Lead Designer, whipped up some snazzy business cards. Pictures below. We processed the order via Vista Print this weekend. I’m pretty excited to replace our old “The Art Attack” business cards. We ordered some for Sarah, me, and then some general ones for everyone else. Woooord.
Premature P[umpkin carving]
Saturday night, we ended up having an impromptu mini-party involving Sarah, Jon, Adam, Dave, Chaymus, Nichole, Ben, and even my brother Darren and his wife Kristen made an appearance for a bit. At some point in the evening, we stumbled to the grocery store and bought pumpkins and carved them up. Below are the fruits [...]
Things Other People Accomplished At 23
I received a comment from Jay @ Dumb Little Man tonight on my ridiculous post earlier. Luckily, he thought it was funny. I stopped by DLM again to see what was new and saw the Article Things Other People Accomplished at Your Age (which assumes your age is 23). Among them include John Singleton directing [...]
Top 10 ways to save time that you shouldn’t do…
In reply to Little Dumb Man’s great 35+ Spectacular and Time Saving Tips article, I was thinking that, just in the same way making money shouldn’t be the bottom line for businesses, saving time shouldn’t be the bottom line for busy people. Here are some things that will defiantly save you time, but [...]
Adamantine Arts to Post Galleria Items to Froogle
Adamantine Arts announced today that items from its upcoming Galleria will be made available to Froogle (Google’s online product search). This is huge for artists who are looking to sell prints and originals. Adopting Google’s Froogle API would make it easy for artists to publish available artwork for sale on their homepage or [...]
