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Calling all architects and those with friends who are, a project I did development for is now live. Its an architectural design competition for proposals to rebuild a stretch of land near Levittown or an area near Huntington Stating off the LIRR. Some really nice prizes and a chance to get involved with shaping the future of suburban landscapes.

The site was developed from the design work and direction from the great 10x. The whole thing came together quite nicely.

I’m pretty stoked to finally roll out the soft-(re)launch of Tickets and Music. I wanted to create a way for people to get access to the best deals for a given show from any location. I don’t think searching the 3rd party brokers is always the best way to go, sometimes they have the only deal and sometimes they don’t.

I like to do the bulk of my site stuff in rails.  I’ve also always wanted to setup a wordpress blog.  Oh, and I’m a total convert to mod_rails.

So it only took a minimal amount of fretting on how to merge php and rails together in my apache server when I discovered that the mod_rails dev version has exactly what I needed…PassengerEnabled!

See this little config setting completely bypasses the serving of your site by mod_rails so your PHP code is free to get served by, um, mod_php5.  Its brilliant and all you have to do is this:

git://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger.git
./bin/passenger-install-apache2-module

then in your http.conf file add:

<Location /blog>
PassengerEnabled off
</Location>

and that’s it! it completely bypasses the wordpress folder (assuming you put it in public/blog) and leaves you free to figure out your next hurdle.

It was so brilliantly drop-in simple…the way I love things to be.