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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</Daniel P. Brown>
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