Thursday, September 16, 2010
Made some minor commits today to my ASPImage component replacement--ASPNetImage.
Fixed a bug in the component's handling of resizing to different aspect
ratios with image size constraint turned on. Also added some basic unit
tests for the implemented methods and tweaked the documentation a bit.
Binaries are now included and I put up the latest revision as a download
(complete with source and supporting files) for those who don't feel
like checking it out with a SVN client.
There's still a lot of work to do, but the basic scaling, cropping,
rotating, flipping and brightness adjusting methods are all in place and
match the original framework. Feel free to help blow out the rest.
Categories: Development
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I've used ServerObjects' ASPImage component for years on a number of
dynamic sites that I've built in classic ASP that needed image
manipulation abilities. Though it has a few issues, it has worked fairly
well.
Recently I migrated a classic ASP web site originally hosted on Windows
Server 2003 to a Windows Server 2008 machine and discovered (as others
have) that ASPImage isn't compatible with 2008, exiting with a memory
failure whenever you attempt to instantiate it.
Not wanting to have to find a replacement, purchase it, and rework a
bunch of old code to work with a new component I decided to try my hand
at simply writing a drop-in replacement interop component in .NET. The
idea being to essentially wrap the System.Drawing namespace into a
component that mirrors ASPImage's interface.
It's far from complete, but I've been running a partial implementation
(with basic scaling, cropping, rotation, flipping, and brightness
adjustment) of the component for about a month now with the site and it
performs well—Better in fact than the original component even.
I've released the object and its source under the GPL v3 and you're more
than welcome to give it a try and/or help me build it out completely.
Get more information and download the source and binaries from Google
Code at: http://code.google.com/p/aspnetimage/
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The sudden lack of posts is due to the fact that Google
stopped supporting FTP publishing from Blogger and I haven't had
time to find a solution for managing the blog that I like. Hopefully
I'll be back to updating regularly soon. In the meantime, I'm modifying
the HTML manually and discovering what a mess Blogger makes.
Categories: Miscellaneous
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I've been working here and there on this cool theme for phpMyAdmin since
the beginning of the year and have finally submitted it to the
development team for approval:
Modan is a phpMyAdmin theme created in an attempt to provide a modern,
simple and clean UI that doesn't overshadow the database and its
contents. In addition to the theme itself, I've also given the
phpMyAdmin logo an dramatic overhaul to fit with the theme's style as
well as a custom favicon that compliments the theme and logo.
Categories: Design, Development
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
I've been collecting user-created maps/levels for games like Unreal
Tournament for a long, long time. Long enough to know that mapping sites
seem to come and go, leaving a lot of dead links on the internet and
making it a struggle finding working download links for some great
stuff. Thankfully, Mapraider.com provides an awesome place to share my
huge collection with others without worrying about links going dead (the
site's been around for 5 years or so already). You'll find maps for
Doom2, Doom3, Far Cry 2, Medal of Honor:Allied Assault, Quake 3 Arena,
Quake 4, TrackMania, Tribes:Vengeance, Unreal, Unreal 2, Unreal
Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Unreal
Tournament 3 at the moment, but there is always new stuff being added.
Here's a list of direct links to every map on the site so far:
Categories: Gaming
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