Site / Life Overhaul – Good Things Coming Soon
I’ve been stuck in somewhat of a rut blogging / personal development-wise for the past months for many reasons, none of which are all that negative. While I have enjoyed my time working on such sites as Cellware and some other projects for the last 10 months, I feel like I’ve lost sight of a lot of things that are important to me in my life. To that end, it’s time for some changes…
What’s New
I’ve accepted a position at Aptana, and will be working on some pretty cool stuff with some of the brightest people in the industry. Look for a lot of really interesting and exciting things to come as I spend more time with them. This position will require me to move across the country (Florida to California), and I’m looking forward to a change of scenery (and lifestyle).
What’s more relevant to most of my readers (thanks to everyone who visits), is what’s going to change with my content. I’ve decided to go over every article I’ve posted on here, and get rid of anything that I’m not happy with. This will take me some time, so please be patient as I work through everything. My goal is to have nothing but great content up, and none of the other half-assed or weak articles that are scattered throughout. I’ve also changed the look of the site and upgraded to the most recent version of Wordpress.
What’s Not New
The thumbnailer project is still up, and I hope to be able to update it soon. If you came here looking for it, just check out the projects page, and you’ll find your way to what you need. I’ve also decided to wipe out all the comments I’ve received. As much as I love everyone’s feedback, it’s entirely too difficult to port these over from the old blog, so I’ve decided to start over.
I’m very happy to be able to get back to doing what I love… learning new things, working with developers that are like-minded with me, and writing stuff that (hopefully) ends up helping people out. I’ve said it a million times, I’ve only made it to where I am in large part because of everything I’ve learned from the community on the web, and I feel it’s important that I give back and help everyone out in whatever ways I can. Stay tuned, as I’m going to be updating a lot more often, and working on some really cool things!
Dusty
Mar 6 '08 at 2:21 pm
Ian,
Congrats man! But, you spelled your new company’s name wrong! It’s not “ApAtana”…
Anyway, good luck with things.. Maybe stop by Omaha on your way across the country?
Dusty
Ian
Mar 6 '08 at 2:40 pm
Good catch man, fixed that.
I’m gonna see what I can do about stopping over there
Adam
Mar 18 '08 at 9:43 am
Good post. Perhaps it is time for me to clean a bit also. It has been a very hectic past year, and I have a bunch of junk posts on my blog also.
Good luck with your new venture. I am watching.
Ric Kolseth
Apr 10 '08 at 9:16 am
About your thumbnailer class… I love it!: use it a lot on various sites.
I need help getting my mind wrapped around how I would use the script as part of a photo upload form: any pointers?
Thanks in advance.
Also, I’ve noticed that the class seems to trow a lot of errors is there is non-standard exif data…
stuf like:
[error] PHP Warning: exif_read_data(0325.JPG) [exif_read_data]: Illegal IFD offset
I use a modified version of the thumbnail.inc that has the exif section commented out, since I don’t use this function. It happens when I use one of those quickie drop-a-folder-to-batch-resize utilities.
I’m no php guru by any means, just poking around, but would love to discuss this…
Again, thanks for a great tool.
Kamera
Apr 14 '08 at 11:29 am
your thumbnailer class is amazing! It does exactly what I was looking for and easy to implement due to your very clear instructions and examples
Just wondering if there was a way to tweak it to call a file through http:// at the front of the “filename=” as I need to be able to resize files from other sites dynamically. Every time I try i get the error – file not found.
Thank you for your time