Yes, it’s that time again!
Time to find out who is Toronto’s Mario Kart King or Queen and to see if The Creeper can keep his title. This February 25th, we’ll crown the next Mario Kart King or Queen of Toronto (or The World, if that’s what you’re into). Races start at 7:30pm sharp!!!
If you’re interested in attending or entering as a contestant then RSVP here: http://www.relivethewizard.com
See everyone this Thursday.
I cannot stop listening to Ian Brown’s “My Way.” It’s genius.
I recently needed to write a PHP client to integrate with the SOAP side of the Campaign Monitor API. The code was pretty simple and straight-forward, but I was getting a weird error: 101 Invalid ListID. I checked and re-checked my ListID in our Campaign Monitor account and verified that I was using the correct ListID. Why then was I getting this Invalid ListID error?
After reading the Campaign Monitor API documentation a couple times, I realized that there was a specific header that I wasn’t using:
SOAPAction: "http://api.createsend.com/api/Subscriber.AddWithCustomFields"
Due to the Invalid ListID error, I wasn’t even thinking about headers! To fix the problem, all I needed to add was one line of code:
$client->addSoapInputHeader( new SoapHeader($soapUri, 'SOAPAction', $soapUri . $action) );
Then everything worked! Awesome.
Here’s a full code snippet:
$wsdl = 'http://api.createsend.com/api/api.asmx?wsdl'; $soapUri = 'http://api.createsend.com/api/'; $apiUri = 'http://api.createsend.com/api/api.asmx'; $apiKey = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; // replace with your API key! $listId = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; // replace with a valid ListID! ;) $action = 'Subscriber.Add'; $method = 'AddSubscriber'; $client = new Zend_Soap_Client($wsdl); $client->addSoapInputHeader( new SoapHeader($soapUri, 'SOAPAction', $soapUri . $action) ); $params = array ('ApiKey' => $apiKey, 'ListID' => $listId, 'Email' => 'test@offshootinc.com', 'Name' => 'Test Testford'); $response = $client->$method($params); $resultName = $action . 'Result'; print_r($response->$resultName);
Today we are proud to announce the launch of the re-branded and fully operational Western Union Canada website. Check out the snaps below for a peak of the website. Better yet….click here to see the full website in action. Let us know what you think!
A big thanks to Paul Hunter for his amazing review of the Mario Kart Tournament (aka Relive The Wizard) we held a few weeks back.
Thanks for coming out Paul and thanks again for the review.
Amazing!
Lindsey Bakes! comes through again.
Zoe, great job on the packaging!
Offshoot clients, hope you enjoy your cookies.
Happy Holidays to everyone else!
We’ve all heard how people’s lives can change in a second because of instant fame due to You Tube or Facebook. Here’s a story about a director from Uruguay who’s landed a major deal with Hollywood because of You Tube.
A five minute short film that was done for under $1000 and uploaded to You Tube, has now landed one Uruguayan film maker a $30 million Hollywood deal.
The documentary styled short entitled Ataque de Panico! (Panic Attack!) is about gigantic robots destroying and attacking the capital of Uruguay.
Speaking with BBC Mundo the director of the short, Fede Alvarez said “I uploaded it on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of emails from Hollywood studios…it was amazing, we were all shockedâ€
The $30 million dollar deal from Ghost House Pictures will team Alvarez up with a writer to create a feature film. Ghost House Pictures is the same company that hosts the Spider Man films director Sam Raimi.
It’s pretty amazing how hard work and putting yourself out there for millions to see can get you the deal of a lifetime.
Check out the full movie below.
Last Thursday we hosted our first ever Relive the Wizard – A Mario Kart Tournament.
Taking home the coveted trophy, some serious prizing from PKG/Skull Candy and the title of Mario Kart Champion was Offshoot’s own Chris (we-swear-we-didn’t-rig-it) Woodford.
Held at The Baitshop, Offshoot proudly hosted and watched some local businesses, gaming connoisseurs and of course our friends battle it out for the first place.
Players were put into a group of 4 and battled through 3 random races. The top 2 winners proceeded to the next round and the bottom 2 were sadly elminated. After the first round of competition, gamers went in to sudden death rounds in a one race winner-advances and loser- eliminated, until the final two drivers were left.
It was a crazy night, full of upset, defeat, surprises and cheers!!
We can’t take all the credit for producing such a stellar tournament. We had some help from some amazing companies.
A HUGE thank you goes out to Andy Priestman from PKG and Skull Candy. They hooked us up large by providing some amazing prizing for our first, second and third place gamers.
Props to the guys at The Baitshop for letting us use their perfect venue!
Kudos to Michelle Gatien for being our eyes of the event and caputring the moments for us.
Thanks to Vitamin Water for donating some delicious beverages.
Many, many, many thanks to our wonderful MC/Referee of the night Modi Taylor Cline, who encouraged the gaming trash talk and kept our players in line and on the ball.
Finally, a MASSIVE thank you to our Food & Beverage sponsor, the Video Game Developing Program at TriOS College. These guys set up our spectators and our gamers with some delicious and game fuelling treats and drinks.
Here’s a sampling of some photos from the tournament.
Check back soon as we will be posting some more photos and of course stay tuned for your opportunity to sign up for the next Relive A Wizard – A Mario Kart Tournament.
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