Mountain Dew JibStars 2010
Or, what’s been keeping Ioana busy these days:
I think it turned out quite good for her first video editing effort.
Postmark library for CodeIgniter
Friday afternoon I received an invite to try out the beta version of Postmark, a transactional e-mail delivery service from Wildbit, the guys and gals who made Beanstalk and Newsberry. What are transactional e-mails, you might ask? The answer is: e-mails generated by a web application after an user action such as registration, requesting a password reminder, receiving a reply to a comment, etc. The problem me and many developers faced is that sometimes the client’s servers are blacklisted and these e-mails land in the users’ spam folder. This is where Postmark comes to the rescue, hopefully – instead of using the built in mail function of your web development language of choice you issue a call to Postmark which sends out the e-mail from their “well regarded” servers so that hopefully they land in the user’s inbox.
To give something back, I’ve put together a CodeIgniter library for this service. This grants easy integration of Postmark with your CodeIgniter web app: you upload two files, fill in your API key then include the library where needed and send mails away.
Download & credits
The best fork of this library is this one: zackkitzmiller/postmark-codeigniter. You can download the library and contribute as needed on GitHub.
Based on Markus Hedlund’s Postmark class for PHP.
Installation
Obsolete: see GitHub.
Usage guide
Obsolete: see GitHub.
If something goes wrong the library and the Postmark service outputs quite user friendly error messages.
Hopefully this will come in handy for some of you.
Cavnic by night
Alrighty, after that post added before we left the house, here are not one but two fresh videos from Cavnic. Made tonight:
Best enjoyed in HD (720p). I’m off to sleep.
Suior by night
For the few of you that haven’t been spammed with this the last two days via Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and my Messenger status, here’s Ioana and me riding the nearby slope of Suior by night.
This was the first real test of the gadget I got for Ioana’s birthday (but for myself too, to be honest), a GoPro HD helmet cam.
The end of another era
I just uninstalled Winamp.
I’ve been a Winamp user since the autumn of 1998 when I got my first computer but I used it even before that on various friends’ computers. Look how enthusiast I was when Winamp 5 came out back in 2003 after the mess that Winamp 3 turned out to be. However, I had enough. Now when I uninstalled it with Revo Uninstaller I noticed that it left behind not less than 1500 registry entries – which were subsequently deleted – I haven’t even checked the directory size but I guess that I can safely say that 1500 leftover registry entries is bloat. Plus it always insisted on updating and installing stuff I never needed – toolbars, bundled software, you name it. Yep, pure bloatware.
I’ve been having an affair with foobar2000 at my last job, mostly because I had a less powerful computer over there and Winamp was eating up too much of its resources. And now that affair turns into a full blown relationship because as of today foobar2000 becomes my main media player.
2009 – My year in pictures
On one of the evenings at the start of December I got nostalgic looking at my Flickr photos taken this year and this idea popped in my mind: how about a blog post like this? Since then this post has been brewing as a draft and it turned out huge. So grab a pack of popcorn and here we go!
