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 excited! Artists include Scott Stulen, Matt Wells, Joe Tower, Charles Denton, Anya Dikareva,...

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 rock! To make the space more friendly, we did some...

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 some pending design tasks and ended up having a great conversation about the design/web...

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 fine. This also assumes you are using sub domains and have somewhat advanced...