I recently decided to make the move back to Wordpress from a smaller Rails application called Simplelog. I’ll save my reasons for another post, but needless to say, I had to decide what type of application stack I would use to host Wordpress. After a bit of research, I decided to go with NginX in the front end to serve static files, and put Apache behind it to serve the dynamic PHP content through the use of mod_php. I had originally thought I might use NginX only, but Wordpress is fairly dependent on mod_rewrite for a lot of things, and NginX doesn’t really have an equivalent yet, so I wanted to have Wordpress itself running on Apache. Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter: Installed Vista in boot camp. It's actually kinda cool. Although not nearly as cool as OSX, and it makes my laptop run hot.
I’ll admit it, that title is wayyy too sensationalistic. But I think it fits right in with all the back and forth blog posts that have revolved around a recent post at the Dreamhost blog talking about the problems with running Rails apps on shared hosts. Seeing as how I’ve tried, with mixed results, to run Rails apps on a couple different shared hosts, as well as on a VPS with root access, I thought I would throw out a few of my own opinions on the article. Read the rest of this entry »
I was reading Wired.com this morning and came across a rather scary article on Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner. Apparently, no one at Boeing realized that it wouldn’t be a good idea to put the flight control and communication system on the same network as the passengers internet access. So basically, it wouldn’t be impossible that a passenger could hack into the control systems from the passenger cabin. From Wired: Read the rest of this entry »
For Christmas this year, I got a black 3rd generation iPod Nano, so I thought I’d write up a quick review after playing with it for a couple weeks. Coming from a 2nd generation iPod Mini, this is quite a big step up for me. I’m only going to concentrate on the features I consider to be major improvements, because I don’t think anyone wants to read about all the little things. So let’s get started! Read the rest of this entry »
