Possibly my favorite Death Cab for Cutie song ever. (‘Death of an Interior Decorator’ from ‘Transatlanticism’)
Common sense would tell me it would be easier to grind up rocks into sand with my bare hands in order to make kitty litter than it would be for me to brave the slew Christmas shoppers at Walmart.— Violent Acres
I’m going to start a mini-series on this blog of the things that I think I, as a programmer/system administrator need. I have not been able to find anything similar in a quick google search, so I’m crowdsourcing. Who knows, I may even add it to my list of projects.
Anyway, the thing I really need is a http server that is fast enough/secure enough/robust enough to compete with apache, but with a configuration file syntax that is a) simple enough for a novice server admin to create virtual hosts and rewrite rules, and b) translatable into an equivalent apache configuration. In other words, the webserver shouldn’t depend on a deep understanding on my part of how virtual hosts work — it should just handle the common cases, and shouldn’t worry about supporting wierd edge cases. In particular, it probably shouldn’t worry about IP-based virtual hosts as much — those can be handled by having multiple instances of the server running, bound to different addresses.
Just installed Rails, using the always excellent resource at Hivelogic. One thing I noticed right off the bat — gems take forever to install, especially at the point where it’s installing the documentation. Such a change from the days of easy_install in the python world :(
I need to move from Facebook Events to something custom, for several reasons: I turn out to have friends that won’t use facebook, I have repeating events, I want to be able to integrate my data more easily than writing a facebook app, and I want to learn something new.
Towards that vein, I’m going to try coding this site in Rails, to see what happens. I already know that I’ll definitely be using Haml/Sassy for the templating language unless something better comes up, and I’ll probably deploy using Phusion’s Passenger (though feel free to chime in below).
I’m sure that Britt would say this was a very ‘reformed’ song. (‘Hear Our Prayer (The Litany Song)” — Wake Thy Slumbering Children, Indelible Grace V)
Just took a look at my Google Analytics dashboard for the first time in a long time, and when I look at the data from the traffic generated by my recent flurry of posts, the most interesting thing to me is that my top referrer by far is facebook. At first I thought this was probably due to the Networked Blogs app I use inserting my posts into my facebook news feed, but then I realized that, no, I have tumblr tweet my blogs for me, which end up as facebook status changes.
So basically, my friends still pay a lot more attention to logging into and checking facebook compulsively than they do to checking twitter.
Huh.
