I suddenly experienced connectivity with HTTPS when using IE8. IE8 suggested that my firewall was blocking the outbound 443 port, which was not. I tried FireFox and Chrome, and they worked fine.

Finally, I went to IE8 Tools/Internet Options/Advanced and click on Reset, which fixed the problem.

To leverage the small memory footprint of Ruby Enterprise Edition (REE), we’ll be moving to Nginx + Passenger + REE. Our current typical configuration is Nginx + Thin.

When designing CSS stylesheet, sorting order plays a big role to get things done nicely. Check the CSS specificity rules.

Simple rule: more specific selectors override general ones; latter ones override earlier ones if everything else is the same.