Christmas cards: DONE!

Wow, what a relief! I finished writing my Christmas cards at 18:30 this evening. I am so glad of the idea to print labels. Thanks to Rails, CouchDB and my pdf_label_maker library, it was much easier than usual. I just sat down and forced myself to get through them all, pausing only once to take a photo:

Half way through

Note the chocolate, ruler and calculator, heheh! I actually bought some cheapo labels from the £1 shop … they weren't even on an A4 sheet, which meant i had to do quite a lot of measuring and trial and error. But i'm so pleased with the result – they look so neat, as opposed to my handwriting which gets terrible whenever i have to write a lot in one go.

Christmas cards: DONE!

Yes, i actually did write a Christmas card to topfunky! ;)

The best thing is … if i keep the database updated during the year, i can print them all out again next year! I'm definitely going to keep developing it, and learning more about CouchDB on Rails in the process.

Posted: December 14th, 2008
Categories: couchdb, geeky, photos, ruby on rails
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  • edna
    I love this time of year and sending out christmans cards
  • I can feel again the spirit of Christmas.. it's almost here
  • I can feel again the spirit of Christmas..
  • how nice ideas is so cool
  • Well xmas is over now, but easter is right around the corner. My favorite part of this pic is the calculator - you really mean business! I wish i was this enthusiastic with my cards, they probably wouldnt take weeks to complete!!!!
  • well, i think i have missed these now. But will remember this for this year X'mas
  • Yes these Christmas Cards are something which you cannot do without and takes something to maintain the process year to year, the database of recipients etc..
  • Yup, and it was a perfect reason to do something useful with CouchDB! :) I'm still using it in fact as my main address book now.
  • Well you're in luck because i posted it today! I had to spend about half an hour in a queue at the post office just to get my 81p stamp! ;)
  • Awww, thanks! I'm looking forward to receiving it.
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