Archive for August 2010
Using TimThumb Part 4: Moving the Crop Location
Moving the crop position around is by far the most popular feature that has been requested for TimThumb. And today it has been officially released!
To be honest the cropping code was something I had put off as I wanted to keep things nice and easy to use; but then a month ago I found a comment on the TimThumb Google Code page that gave me a nice simple method for adding the alignment code.
Using TimThumb Part 3: Image Filters
So far I have documented the basic TimThumb functionality, and how to resize images that are on external domains and now things can get interesting. In this part I will talk about some of the features that have been available for a while, but never officially documented - Image Filters.
Image FiltersWhen I talk about image filters I mean the types of effects you can get in Photoshop or most other image ...
Using TimThumb Part 2: External Websites
Of all the TimThumb feature requests the most popular are being able to crop an image from a specified location, and being able to load images from external websites. Resizing images from external images was added at the start of 2010 and seems to be working really well.
Like all things TimThumb I tried to make it as easy as possible to use the external images feature, however I had to keep security ...
Using TimThumb part 1: Getting Started
TimThumb has always been built with simplicity in mind. However there are a few things it can do that have not been exposed before.
Inspired by a comment from RBhavesh I have decided to write a series of posts in which I will show you how TimThumb should be used - and introduce some new functionality.
In this post I will discuss the basic usage of the script - the minimum parameters to ...
The Green Zone
Let's get this out of the way quickly. Yes this is Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass, but it's not the Bourne Identity. Not close.
One similarity the two films share is the shaky cam stylings. It's everywhere, even more so than the Bourne films. Thankfully this doesn't bother me at all but I know a couple of people who have issues with motion sickness and I'm pretty sure this would have triggered it rather quickly.
From a factual point of view the ...
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Rocket Boards is a super fast 3D rocket boarding action. My first "commercial" (shareware) product. Didn't do amazingly well but was a good learning experience
Bubble Bomb is a polished update of a game originally built by Warren Marshal (who works at Epic games - developers of Unreal and Gears of War)
My own update of Bubble Bomb, Bubble Blitz was almost a total rewrite adding loads of new features and a shiny new look.
Seths Puzzle Boxes is a puzzle game with a surprisingly enjoyable story line, unfortunately it's quite short so won't take long to complete, but while it lasts is great fun.