Wordpress is pretty much the blogging engine of choice. It's used by so many people, and has so many plugins and an amazing following, you'd wonder why anybody would use anything else (well there are a number of reasons, but we can talk about that later). Some problems that come with Wordpress, with all that power, is sometimes it's slow. Combine php, lots of plugins, and everything else, and your blog can come to a crawl, especially if you writ…

I don't really care, I just want a certificate. Gimme! For my stuff, I just want the SSL for my own personal use. It's not for a variety of random people I don't know, just me, so I don't care. How? openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out out.pem -keyout out.pem

The ruby-openid gem was giving me problems with Passenger, causing IOError problems. I found the fix here The gist of it? Add OpenID::Util.logger = RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER to environment.rb, and you're good!