[PHP] Happy Diamond Jubilee everyone!

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 :-/

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On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Ashley Sheridan
<[email protected]> 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 :-/

Congrats, Ash, and nice work. Looks great!

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And this is when I realize that I still have so much to learn!!!! Looks amazing ash!


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On Jun 1, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Ashley Sheridan <[email protected]> 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 :-/
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>

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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

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Paul M Foster <[email protected]> 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
>
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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

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Bastien Koert

On 2012-06-02, at 4:51 AM, Ashley Sheridan <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Paul M Foster <[email protected]> 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
>>
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>> http://noferblatz.com
>> http://quillandmouse.com
>>
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>
> 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
>
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I'm sure lots of us are interested. It's very cool. Nice job!

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On Jun 1, 2012, at 1:44 PM, 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 :-/
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>

Just saw it -- far out!


Cheers,

tedd

PS: You Brits have too much free time on your hands. :-)


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