Entries from May 2008

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Deploying Rails on Dreamhost with Phusion Passenger

Deploying Ruby on Rails has always been a pain, even with tools like Mongrel and Capistrano. On shared hosting, it’s nearly impossible. A little while ago, I noticed a project called Phusion Passenger (aka mod_rails), which sought to make deploying as easy as uploading your application to your webhost. A few [...]

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Releasing Java Vector Class

This semester, I took a class called “Computational Physics,” where we simulated various physical properties. For my final project, I wrote a simulation of the Solar System, and in the process, I wrote a “Vector” class for Java. It allows you to do 3 dimensional vector math operations pretty easily, like in the [...]

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Tacos in Vegas

An ad for What Happens In Vegas came on TV this evening, and I noticed something bizarre. Take a look at the font they’re using:

Now, take a look at the font Taco Bell’s been using for years:

Someone in advertising definitely dropped the ball on this one.