I decided to make a website (markthedark.com) to be a light graffiti community. If you don’t know what light graffiti is, it’s a fun technique where you take LED (and other) lights and “draw” while the camera is taking the picture (you have to adjust your camera settings to do this). Light graffiti is pretty [...]
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Configuring a catch-all email address with Postfix on Slicehost
This post walks you through how to create a catch-all email for any emails sent to your domain that don’t resolve to an actual email account. This is handy when people type your name wrong or think that there’s a webmaster@domain.com when that account really doesn’t exist. Most of the tutorials I found have you [...]
Fixing Error 550 when sending to/from Google Apps email
My problem was that whenever I sent an email from my boogly.net email (hosted by hostgator) to my email at celiacclub.com (email managed with Google Apps for domains), the message bounced, replying with this error:
550-Verification failed for <email>
550-No Such User Here
550 Sender verify failed (state 14).
It only happened for the boogly.net-to/from-celiacclub.com connection–emails from hotmail got [...]
My experience moving to slicehost from HostGator
It’s been 11 days since I’ve had a slicehost account, so I figured I would write about my experience with it. Slicehost is a Virtual Private Server (VPS) host that pretty much gives you webspace, an internet connection, and lets you do whatever you want with it. It’s nice to have the control…but that also [...]
Changing “wishlist” on Magento
I didn’t think it was fitting to call it a “wishlist” on CeliacClub.com. Frankly, if I went to any website with a wishlist, I’m not really sure what it does. I think calling it a “watchlist” is much more applicable. This article shows how to change it on your Magento site. This process could probably [...]
Nutrition label creator
While working on the design for celiacclub.com, I found that I needed to create several nutrition labels, but couldn’t implement it dynamically. With the help of Jonathon Eric Cihlá?’s CSS, I wrote a PHP script to generate the code for the labels dynamically. You’ll need to unzip the files into a php-enabled directory. [...]
new blog
I’m starting this blog to put some of the things that I’ve been discovering. Hopefully they’ll be useful to somebody. I just slapped in a theme I got off of wordpress.org and a few plugins.