TechStart, a non-profit organization founded by the Software Association of Oregon, launched their new website recently. TechStart’s mission is:
To promote technology education to strengthen the teamwork, critical thinking, creativity, and problem solving skills of K-12 students and, in so doing, awaken a passion for technology among all Oregon students.
I had the pleasure of working with President Chris Brooks and his team to develop TechStart’s new website. Working with non-profit organizations is personally gratifying; my frequent non-profit projects are one of many reasons why I love working at Concentric Sky. I’m particularly happy to work with TechStart, and hope that the next generation of students will benefit from an early introduction to math and science as much as I have.
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Nginx is an incredibly fast and efficient web server and reverse proxy system. It’s a step away from traditional web servers that attempt to directly incorporate support for many types of scripting languages. In fact, Nginx only serves up only static data - but it does it in a hurry. I know, I know - who only has static content? You might be surprised how much of it you do have.
Nginx has a concise and powerful syntax for determining how to handle a request. It first checks to see if a static file exists, and if one does not exist, it then acts as a reverse proxy and sends your request to another service. For instance, for a php script, nginx will determine that it is a dynamic request, and it will then kick the request off to a fastcgi server. For a ruby on rails application, it will send the request to a mongrel cluster.
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