While we work on our upcoming features we have been making a couple of other small (but important) changes on Adegga. You might have noted some of them but here’s a list of some new things we’ve added.

Active Members
We’ve added a “Active Members” box to the homepage. It’s basically a list of pictures of people who have logged in recently. Here’s a screenshot:

Easy inviting
You can now invite anyone directly from your personalized homepage. We added a simple text box so you just need to add the email of the person you want to invite and submit.

Top 10 Members
We’ve added a Top 10 Members to make it easier for you to find people who you might find interesting to add your watchlist.

Add new vintage or type
Adding a different year or wine type (red, white, etc) of a wine that is already in Adegga is now much easier. You just need to look for the link “Add new vintage or type” in a wine page and you’ll be able to add a new wine based on the previous one in no time.

Do you like these features? We’re always open to suggestions! Comment below or send us an email to adegga@adegga.com.

We wanted to create a set of invite cards to use as invitations for the social wine discovery project that we have been developing - adegga.

This a description of how we thought and created these cards using imagination, wine and the services of a great company called Moo.

Step one: Opened a good bottle of red wine.

Step two: We thought about making 200 invite cards with a unique invitation code on each one.

We already knew and loved these little cards by Moo. They are eye-catching and small enough to be on a pocket or wallet. A Moo card can have pictures on the front and up to six lines of text on the back.

We thought we could use them with each invite code on the back, but we didn’t want to put each code manually on the back of each card. There was certainly a way of doing it without having to much work.

Step three: First bottle is over. On to the Porto! : )

Step four: Choosing 10 images was next. Why 10?

• With 10 images you can do 10 sets of cards
• You can only make a maximum of 100 moo cards at a time
• 20 sets gives us the 200 cards we want

It is advisable to resize photos to a smaller size cropping a little bit bigger than what you want so that moo can cut exactly where you want. You should also get them all on landscape format so that you don’t have to rotate them on moo.

Step five: Generate 100 invite codes (we used MySQL and PHP) and save them to a file.

Step six: Half of Port bottle was reached and it is time to tell how we got the code on the moo card without having to write the text manually on each one.There are six lines of text on the back of each card. Some can be filled with image properties. We decided that the picture name was the property we wanted to use (it’s the easiest).Now we need to copy and rename 100 pictures to put unique codes as the image’s name. There’s a non-geek way and a geek way (scripting) to do this. We did it the non-geek way and used google spreadsheet (example file here):

• Column A - original filename (10 for each image)
• Column B – each invite code
• Column C - use Concatenate Function and do something like this:
  =CONCATENATE(”cp “, A2, ” /tmp/adegga_mic/”, B2, “.jpg”)

Remember to create the /tmp/adegga_mic/ folder first.

Step seven: Now you need to upload all your new photos.

We used our Flickr account. We tried using the Mac tool but only the Windows Uploadr did actually remove the file extension (.jpg) from the name of the file.

Step eight: Further personalize your card. We choosed to add our site address (adegga.com) and add the cute little invite icon that moo provides.

Step nine: No more Port, the bottle is empty. Order the cards and wait (they say 10 days but it actually took less - 6 days).

Step ten: Start giving the away your new unique moo invite cards! We did it at Reboot 9 and people love them.