Re: Happy Diamond Jubilee everyone!

Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote: >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 > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Thanks, it did take a little while to get right. I might be able to post some bits of code if anyone is interested? Thanks, Ash http://ashleysheridan.co.uk