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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 caching needs. Finally, it assumes you know what caching is and how to make rails cache and serve cached pages in the first place. Check out this article for some basics (and some advanced things too). A lot of what I have done is based on things there.
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.
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.
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.
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]](/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2009/10/136_pupkin1.jpg)
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 of our labors. Special thanks to Sarah for taking the photos showing off her skills with low light photography!
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 Arts just before I was 23. Maybe one day, I will be on this list.
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 you shouldn’t probably do…
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 shops using Adamantine Arts as the database. Does anyone else think “Affiliate Program” when they hear this? All this comes on the announcement of the Adamantine Arts API.
