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• Fill patterns

  9 June 2010, by Mikko Koppanen — Imagick, PHP stuff

  My work life has been quite busy lately and I haven’t had a chance to sit down and blog. I have been touring around London and some parts of the northern England consulting and organizing some training here and there. Luckily I have had the chance to do some work on Imagick and the 2.2.0 beta release is getting closer. The internal structure was completely restructured and broken down into several smaller files. During this time Imagick was adapted to follow the PHP Coding Standards more closely. Still a work in progress

  I committed slightly modified version of this example to PHP Manual http://uk.php.net/manual/en/imagick.examples.php page a few days ago. The example illustrates using an image as a part of a named fill pattern. The fill pattern is used to annotate text but the named pattern could also be used to fill any shapes that allow fill to be specified (include circles, ellipses, rectangles, polygons etc etc). The code itself is pretty straight forward: Read the image, create the pattern and use the pattern as a fill.

  The ice formations image is from http://www.photoeverywhere.co.uk/west/winterholiday/slides/iceformations5679.htm.

  php

  < view plain text >

  1. <?php
  2.  
  3. /* Create a new imagick object */
  4. $im = new Imagick( ’iceformations5679.JPG’ );
  5.  
  6. /* Create imagickdraw object */
  7. $draw = new ImagickDraw();
  8.  
  9. /* Start a new pattern called "ice" */
  10. $draw->pushPattern( ’ice’ , 0 , 0 , 50 , 50 );
  11.  
  12. /* Composite the image on the pattern */
  13. $draw->composite( Imagick::COMPOSITE_OVER, 0, 0, 50, 50, $im );
  14.  
  15. /* Close the pattern */
  16. $draw->popPattern();
  17.  
  18. /* Use the pattern called "ice" as the fill */
  19. $draw->setFillPatternURL( ’#ice’ );
  20.  
  21. /* Set font size to 52 */
  22. $draw->setFontSize( 52 );
  23.  
  24. /* Annotate some text */
  25. $draw->annotation( 5, 50, "Hello World!" );
  26.  
  27. /* Create a new canvas and white image */
  28. $canvas = new Imagick();
  29. $canvas->newImage( 310, 70, "white" );
  30.  
  31. /* Add black border around the resulting image */
  32. $canvas->borderImage( ’black’, 1, 1 );
  33.  
  34. /* Draw the ImagickDraw on to the canvas */
  35. $canvas->drawImage( $draw );
  36.  
  37. /* Set the format to PNG */
  38. $canvas->setImageFormat( ’png’ );
  39.  
  40. /* Output the image */
  41. header( "Content-Type: image/png" );
  42. echo $canvas;
  43. ?>

  And the result is here:

  

• Bye Bye FATE Machine

  4 September 2010, by Multimedia Mike — FATE Server

  This is the computer that performed the lion’s share of FATE cycles for the past 1.5 years before Mans put a new continuous integration system into service. I’ve now decided to let the machine go. I can’t get over how odd this feels since this thing is technically the best machine I own.

  
  
  

  It’s a small form factor Shuttle PC (SD37P2 v2); Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz; 2 GB RAM; 400 GB SATA HD; equipped with the only consistently functional optical drive in my house (uh oh). I used it as my primary desktop from March 2007 – November 2008, at which point I repurposed it for FATE cycles.

  As mentioned, the craziest part is that this is technically the best computer in my house. My new EeePC 1201PN isn’t at quite the same level; my old EeePC can’t touch it, of course; the Mac Mini has a little more RAM but doesn’t stack up in nearly all other areas. But the Shuttle just isn’t seeing that much use since the usurpation. I had it running automated backup duty for multimedia.cx but that’s easy enough to move to another, lower-powered system.

  Maybe the prognosticators are correct and the PC industry has matured to the point where raw computing power simply doesn’t matter anymore. I fancy myself as someone who knows how to put CPU power to work but even I don’t know what to do with the computing capacity I purchased over 3 years ago.

  Where will the Shuttle go? A good home, I trust– I know a family that just arrived in the country and could use a computer.

• La barre des 100 000 téléchargements !

  21 July 2010, by Piwik team — Communauté

  C’est un jour formidable pour la communauté de Piwik : Piwik vient juste de dépasser la barre importante des 100 000 téléchargements !!

  

  Cliquez sur l’image pour voir le compteur de téléchargements de Piwik en temps réel

  Ceci montre à quel point une alternative open source à Google, à Yahoo et à d’autres est bien reçue par la communauté. Merci à tous pour votre aide, vos messages, vos corrections, vos rapports de bugs, vos réactions, vos articles sur les blogs, c’était un parcours très excitant !

  L’évolution des téléchargements

  Regardez le graphique çi-dessous qui montre les évolutions des téléchargements de Piwik par mois depuis la première version publique en Mars 2008 :

  

  Voulez vous voir ce graphe grimpé pendant les prochains mois ? Vous pouvez le faire ! Nous sommes en train de travailler dur pour finir la version 1.0 de Piwik (allez voir la « roadmap » de Piwik 1.0) et VOUS pouvez aider. Nous avons fait une liste de choses que vous pouvez faire pour aider, quelque soit vos capacités techniques ou votre créativité. Allez voir la liste des 18 voies dans lesquelles vous pouvez vous engager pour contribuer à Piwik.

  Restez attentif aux futures annonces. Merci beaucoup !