Monthly Archives: May 2008

Mongrel + Nginx: Deploying to a subdirectory

By John | Published: May 27, 2008
Though using subdomains is all the rage right now, there are certianly instances where you may want to deploy your rails application to a subdirectory such as: http://www.johnyerhot.com/myrailsapp Of course Nginx makes it super easy to do so. If you need to get your webserver ready with Nginx, PHP running as a FCGI instance, and Rails [...]
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I’m on Alexa.. no. 1,257,367 world wide..

By John | Published: May 26, 2008
Holy crap, apparently I’m the 1,257,367th most visited site in the world… or  the  the 740,255th most popular in the US.. apparently. I have  a hard time believing either of these  figures.  I know that the PHP/Nginx/Rails Post is very popular, as well as  the Google Maps and the one about how to use Rails [...]
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Usually Frown Upon this Stuff but…

By John | Published: May 23, 2008
Quite Possibly the most awesome music video ever. Thank you Weezer for restoring my faith in the world…
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Trip to Seattle & Washington State

By John | Published: May 22, 2008
Just booked a little week long excursion to Washington State for next month.  We’re flying in to Seattle on June 14th and will be returning on 21st.  Should be super sweet, the Pacific Northwest is my favorite region of The States and its been about 6-7 years since I’ve been out there. Jen’s never been there [...]
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Super Simple Ruby Web Scraper

By John | Published: May 19, 2008
Alrighty folks. Quick walk though for scraping remote web data with Ruby. This is how I did it for my little web scraper I wrote on Saturday.. DISCLAIMER: Web Scraping is kind of a gray area.. don’t steal things that are copywritten and don’t be a jerk. Give credit where credit is due.. First [...]
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Afternoon at Lake Superior

By John | Published: May 18, 2008
Spent the afternoon down at the Lake today with Leeroy and the Mrs.  I have to admit, Duluth in the summer time is not that bad.  If the tourists were not around it would better, but today was pretty beautiful.   More pictures here.
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yerhot.org and Jen’s business

By John | Published: May 12, 2008
Over the weekend my sister graduated from St. Mary’s. For some reason it gave me the idea of buying yerhot.org and then setting up a family portal complete with yerhot.org email for everyone. Prolly just through Gmail, but still john@yerhot.org or rebecca@yerhot.org would be pretty neat. Especially if we all end up [...]
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