Re: Happy Diamond Jubilee everyone!

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 06:44:17PM +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > This is a bit of a shameless plug, but it is a Friday and a pretty > special weekend over here. > > I recently got to work on something a bit fun at work in my spare time > and they liked it so much that it got used internally to celebrate the > jubilee weekend. > > This is the result http://jubilee.themlondon.com > > For those of you interested, the leg-work is done by a bunch of PHP > scripts run in the background via cron, split into 3 tasks: > > > 1. A script goes out and searches Twitter for tweets that mention > the jubilee, one instance per keyword and records those to a DB > to limit the draw on the Twitter API > 2. A second script goes over those tweets and pulls in all the > non-default profile images for each unique user > 3. Lastly, the image is built as 12 separate tiles every half hour, > using PHP and GD to match the average colour of each profile pic > to a spot on the image, and then these are stitched together for > the final image > > Anyway, hope you guys all have a great weekend, more so if you're > unlucky enough to be working over the whole 4 days :-/ *Very* nice work! Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com