Re: Happy Diamond Jubilee everyone!

Bastien Koert On 2012-06-02, at 4:51 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > > > 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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > I'm sure lots of us are interested. It's very cool. Nice job! Bastien