Archive for September, 2010
Creativity International Awards
Friday, September 17th, 2010
Creativity International introduces new categories for the 41st Media & Interactive Awards. Have the billboards you created converted to digital billboards or transit systems? Are your clients asking for e-pubs instead of magazines? We have a category for that!
Also new in 2011 is a category for the newest trends in marketing & advertising – “Augmented Reality.” We can’t wait to see what entries we get there!
See all the updated categories for Media & Interactive here.
WHY SHOULD YOU WANT A CREATIVITY AWARD?
- International panel of judges that is truly representative of Creativity’s entrants.
- Winning entries are published in the handsome 400-page Creativity Awards Annual. Thousands are distributed worldwide by HarperCollins. Your achievement is forever preserved in print. Platinum (Best in Category) winners receive a full page for their winning entry with creative brief.
- CIA website exposure of all media & interactive winners – over 3,500 unique visitors per month and winner’s tools (press release, banners, icons, one sheet) provided for your self-promotion uses.
- Our online system eliminates much of the hassle involved with entering competitions. With no mounting or essays required and the ease of uploading images and videos instantaneously, what could be holding you back?
- Our fees are among the lowest of the advertising and design competitions. In addition, all winners receive 2 complimentary certificates per winning entry and a complimentary copy of the Awards Annual. Gold, Silver or Platinum winners have the option to purchase a stunning Creativity International Awards trophy and/or personalized framed certificates.
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Serving static content from Cloud Files using Ruby
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010I recently moved my site skylinesaustralia.com from hosting in the states back to hosting in Australia and while it is reasonably affordable, one thing I can't afford is a burst in bandwidth. I average 600GB outbound per month and I only have 600GB allowance with my server, so I decided to serve my gallery and post attachment images from Rackspaces Cloud Files service. The Cloud Files service is much like Amazons S3 service, only faster and for a similar amount of money.
My issue with this was that my gallery on SAU is 100GB in size, so using something to mount the Cloud Files 'container' locally using fuse or something similar is far too slow and without mounting it, I cannot use rsync. Even if I did manage to mount it, I had no way of doing an 'immediate' sync when files were uploaded.
After some thinking and chatting with a very cluey sys admin at work, I looked at inotify. Basically, inotify (and inotify-tools) alerts you of changes to files and directories, thus making it possible to write scripts based on changes to the file system. Awesome!
Rackspace provides a bunch of very nice API interfaces for all sorts of languages. I used Ruby, but the PHP one is also great.
So, my approach was to monitor a directory for changes, capture the changes, use the file name and location captured and push the changes via the Cloud Files API. Then, we can view the files using the Cloud Files CDN URL. This is easily the trickiest to get right, but the easiest to set up and requires very little integration to work for any site.
The first thing I did was write a little Ruby script to upload files to a container on Cloud Files. I wanted this script to remain generic so that I could use it to push my database backups to Cloud Files also.
require 'rubygems'
require 'cloudfiles'
# Log into the Cloud Files system
cf = CloudFiles::Connection.new("username", "APIKey")
if ARGV.empty? then
print "Usage: \n"
print "pushToCloud.rb <container> <remotefile> <localfile> \n"
print "remote file MUST contain relative path under the container!\n"
else
container = cf.container(ARGV[0])
if container.object_exists?(ARGV[1]) then
# object (file) exists
else
# object does not exist...
newfile = container.create_object(ARGV[1], true)
newfile.load_from_filename(ARGV[2])
end
end
This is very simple. Connects to Cloud Files, checks if the object (file) exists, if not, it creates a new object and writes data to it. There are a few things to note here;
- An 'object' is the name of anything in Cloud Files; a file or a directory can be an 'object'
- Objects don't have a path, they are named with their path. ie /var/log/my.log gets sent as '/var/log/my.log' - the path is part of the name. (At least this is how I understand it)
- Objects can be created but not written to. This concept means that you need to create and object and then write data to it (you can see this in the code above.)
Now that I have my Ruby script, I will write a small bash script;
#!/bin/sh
function checkExists {
if [ ! -e "" ]
then
sleep 5
checkExists
fi
}
inotifywait -mr --timefmt '%d/%m/%y-%H:%M' --format '%T %w %f' -e modify,moved_to,create,delete /home/skylines/html/forums/uploads | while read date dir file; do
cloudpath=${dir:20}${file}
# I only want everything after /home/skylines/html/
localpath=${dir}${file}
checkExists $localpath
ruby /home/cbiggins/bin/pushToCloud.rb skylinesaustralia.com $cloudpath $localpath
echo "${date} ruby /home/cbiggins/bin/pushToCloud.rb skylinesaustralia.com $cloudpath $localpath" >> /var/log/pushToCloud.log
done
So, this very simple script uses inotifywait to monitor my uploads directory for changes (modify, moved_to, create and delete changes) and writes the path and file to stdout, then my while loop grabs that output and reads it into the date, directory and file. We create a few paths for Cloud Files and locally and we pass them to my Ruby script. I am also a big advocate of logging everything, so I write my changes to a log file also. Note the checkExists function - if this bash script gets called before the file has completed uploading, then its not available to be pushed to Cloud FIles and we end up with errors, so this function just sleeps for 5 seconds if its not there and trys again until the file exists.
As you can see, pushing files to the 'Cloud' is extremely easy and apps like inotify and inotify-tools make it super simple to monitor and perform actions based on file system changes.
If you have any suggestions or questions, please don't hesitate to leave a comment below.
Thanks!
Someone Is Trying To Sell $300 Million Of Facebook Stock
Monday, September 13th, 2010
Someone is trying to sell as much as 0 million worth of Facebook stock, a source tells the New York Post. The Post says it has to be one of the co-founders — Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz or Eduardo Saverin, but it’s not clear why…
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010Our last post in the Link Building series covered the technique of commenting on blogs in order to get relevant links back to your website. This post will cover more tips for commenting on blogs that…
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