Re: Happy Diamond Jubilee everyone!

[Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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