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 nice together. My initial stabs at the problem gave me all sorts of grief....

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 Rails. Hurray for logarithms lately. They are all over the search code. Criteria : - Use percent based fonts to...

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....

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 a cult classic and Truman Capote publishing his first novel. Legally, I started Adamantine...

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 myspace, etc. They could even setup their own 3rd party...