The problem is due to my DNS, but is still funny as hell.
Released new Amazon S3 Plugin for wordpress
Couple of months before one of my friend was asking about Amazon S3 plugin for wordpress. For me most of them were either complicated or not working. So my main focus of the plugin was to be really simple and in the same time effective. I would say I have kind of achieved the goal to some extend in version 1.0 of this plugin release.
The toughest part in the plugin is to configure the Amazon S3 Setting, create a folder for caching and setup the wordpress cron file. Once these settings are done you don’t have to worry about anything else. The plugin will look for media files in your post and automatically schedule the files for amazon upload. Once the file is uploaded the media urls will be from the CDN. There are no changes done in your database and if you disable the plugin everything will go back to the old state.
Breaking the silence after a long time.
It has been a while since I wrote anything on the blog. I don’t want to give any excuse as it was mostly being lazy. After a while I started to get a feeling what to blog and I was really running out of topics. Yesterday I got an email from WordPress team that their new version 3.0 is out. This gave me a reason to goto my blog and start updating the software. As usual the upgrade was smooth as silk and everything worked spot on. I even upgraded my plugins and themes so everything works fine. All my plugins except organizer is working fine in the latest wordpress 3.0
Apart from that I was busy past month updating iPhone app Naviflix. The new version is already submitted to the app store. Once it is approved I will share some the hurdles I crossed while development.
Some of my friends requested me to write a plugin which helps to move the media files in their blog to Amazon S3. I have written a simple plugin and once I get the space in wordpress subversion I will be posting more details about the same. I have uploaded my niece Afifa picture below.
If my plugin is working fine it should be serving the image from the S3 cdn.
Naviflix – One stop solution for movie lovers
About three months back we had this conversation in our office lounge after we had released an app for mumbaikar.com. What next ?
After a series of discussions we understood that so many of us @flipmedia were hard core movie buffs. Watching movies in the cinema was on the top of our entertainment list. From the list of suggestions, movie app scored number one. We had brainstorming sessions on what next and how can we go about building this app?. We did some rough sketches and kind of finalized on the final working version and it’s features.
Our creative team began their magic on the wire-frames and gave application the best look and feel. Technical team got final designs in few days and started working on the app code. Before starting the actual work we had to make sure that we did not repeat the mistakes we encountered during the first app production. Thanks to our creative team as they made our life harder with a nice but difficult to implement design.
Our challenge was to give the same look and feel and at the same time make the application responsive. Our creative team started working on the application icon. You can see how the logo got evolved
After working on the app for 5 weeks we completed the first version of Naviflix 1.0 and submitted to app store. Thanks to Google, Apple SDK Documentation and some great forums, without those references we would have been lost. After submitting the app we could not just wait, and we started testing it with our friends. They reported few bugs. We worked on them as fast as we could submitted version 1.1 to app store.
Naviflix Demo
Would like to hear your comments and suggestions on how we can improve the app. You can purchase Naviflix on the app store for USD 1.99
Restore to iPhone OS 3.1.3 Firmware from iPhone OS 4.0 Beta1
I know so many people with lot of excitement upgraded their iPhone to OS 4.0 Beta1. After few minutes of discovering the new features you will realize most of your old application are crashing and not running as it is supposed to work. Many of my favorite applications did the same and I got really annoyed. I cannot really blame Apple for OS 4.0 as it is still in beta.
I decided to restore my iPhone to previous 3.1.3 firmware and I kept getting this annoying error 1015. After searching almost a day I found this method which helped me to get back to 3.1.3 firmware. I hope this will help you all
Pre-requisites
- iTunes 9.1
- Original firmware 3.1.3 [ iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS ]
- iRecovery v 1.3
- Libusb library
Step #1 Download and install the library “libusb”.
Step #2 Download and copy the application “iRecovery” to the desktop
Step #2 Open iTunes, click the ALT key + Restore and manually load the original 3.1.3 firmware.
Step #3 During the restore process, you’ll notice a pop up with error 1015, neglect it.
Step #4 Click Ok to close the pop-ups and close iTunes.
Step #5 Now open the terminal and type the following commands:
cd Desktop
. /iRecovery -s
setenv auto-boot true
saveenv
fsboot
exit
Step #6 Wait a few seconds and disconnect the iPhone from the cable, then reboot the phone by clicking Home + Power buttons simultaneously.
Step #7 Once you connect the phone via USB and proceed normally, the Apple logo appears on the display.
My sincere thanks to Chris Martin for translating this original article.
Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration
“If pop producer Timbaland had sought to build consensus around declaring independence, what might he have produced?” Concept video from Soomo Publishing
Timbaland – Apologize (feat. One Republic)
Hope you enjoyed watching both videos 