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New builds for PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.3 30 Nov 2012 | 02:08 am
It’s been a while since I last updated this blog (September 2009 to be exact). Time flies! Anyway, here comes the actual content: updated imagick binaries for PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4. The download package...
Imagick and Gmagick builds available for Windows 19 Sep 2009 | 03:23 pm
The new Windows build page http://valokuva.org/magick/ contains builds for both Imagick and Gmagick. All builds are done using VC9 and PHP 5.3. ImageMagick builds are QuantumDepth 16 (default). Grap...
New and old extensions 12 Sep 2009 | 01:58 pm
I’ve been fairly busy lately writing a few new PHP extensions. Here is a short introduction of each one of them and what they can do: 1. tokyo_tyrant This is an extension to connect to the Tokyo Tyr...
Hardware failure 12 Sep 2009 | 01:52 pm
Hi, my blog has been down for about the last week now because of problems with the server hardware. I am trying to provision new hardware and restore the service back to normal as soon as possible. C...
Fake uploading files 6 Mar 2009 | 04:18 am
Fake uploading files A few days ago I encountered a problem where I needed to test a controller that handles file uploads. I couldn't find an easy way to unit test the code which used built-in upload...
Perspective transformations 5 Feb 2009 | 09:48 am
Finally (after a long break) I managed to force myself to update the PHP documentation and this time it was distortImage code example. Things have been hectic lately but that does not quite explain th...
Fill patterns 26 Apr 2008 | 09:15 pm
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 trainin...
phplondon conference 2008 3 Mar 2008 | 08:35 am
To summarize it: I had fun My conference preparations started about two weeks before the conference. The PHPLondon fellows (Paul, Matt and Richard) asked me to do a small presentation about Imagick at...
Seam carving 14 Feb 2008 | 07:38 am
Today I was reading trough the ImageMagick ChangeLog and noticed an interesting entry. "Add support for liquid rescaling". I rushed to check the MagickWand API docs and there it was: MagickLiquidResca...
Typesetting 17 Jan 2008 | 11:07 am
Ever had the situation where you have a piece of string which you need to overlay on an image? Maybe a situation where the area reserved for the string is known in pixels but you need to know the font...
