Adamantine Arts
Adamantine Arts VidCast #1: PPL Mentoring Visit with Stephen Capiz
Tonight was the start of three new things.
2008 AA Calendar - Almost Done…
I spent most of the day yesterday prepping the images for the 2008 Adamantine Arts fund raiser calendar. I ended up staying up until 4am or so getting the actual calendar ready. Meanwhile, Jon and I worked feverishly on the website side to get all the store bits working for the site. I’m pretty damn [...]
Transforming Adamantine Arts’ New Space Video
We signed a lease with Stevens Square Center for the Arts on Oct 1. Our space there will be used for our Stevens Creative Youth mentoring program. I’m pretty excited for this program. Sarah and I spoke to the Loring/Nicollette Alternative School last Wednesday and already received 4 apps with more expected. This program should [...]
Shout Out to Joe Tower
A new addition to the Adamantine Arts team is Twin Cities Designer, Joe Tower. Joe was introduced to me through our Assistant Director Sarah Jordet. Joe will be doing various design duties for AA to offload some of the design work from our lead designer Zach Taylor.
Tonight Joe and I got together to mull over [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
