This morning I was tasked, at short notice, by the UN Refugee Agency to create a small graphic to accompany a press release about Camp Ashraf, (now being called “Camp New Iraq“). With little information to go on, I decided on a simplified map of Iraq, depicting the location of Camp Ashraf, and it’s proximity [...]

We’ve all seen them, the Tweet this, Like this, Share this social media buttons. They give end users an easy way to share content, whilst providing webmasters with an important promotional service for their sites. But adding them to your sites can be a bit of a pain. You have to visit a seperate generator [...]

This is something I have had to do on numerous occasions, and each time I have to look up GD library functions and mess around with several attempts before I get it right, so I figured it was time I wrote a couple of simple PHP functions to handle this. Hopefully you can use them [...]

New and unsettling facial animation technology that creates a variety of expressions from a single image… developed by those clever Japanese guys at MotionPortrait. Move your mouse around her head… direct link

As a web developer, I’m often trying to squeeze text into small spaces, and sometimes the only way is to create a summary, or abstract of the text. A lot of abstract functions will truncate after n words: <?php preg_match(‘/^([^.!?\s]*[\.!?\s]+){0,n}/’, strip_tags($text), $abstract); echo $abstract[0]; ?> … or truncate after n sentences: <?php preg_match(‘/^([^.!?]*[\.!?]+){0,n}/’, strip_tags($text), $abstract); [...]