benford | 
05 30th, 2009| 
On a particularly messy day of web development, you might be faced with trying to find deprecated web pages among a pool of thousands upon thousands of pages within your website. This effect, magnified by a succession of webmasters past (complete with wildly divergent design philosophies) lead to a post pre-cambrian era of technological diversity. Unfortunately, this scenario was most notably non-hypothetical for me.
Apr
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So one day I had the need to programatically resize images using a php webserver. Subsequent research leads me to imageMagick, a port of the java library of the same name. The best part is that the library is Open Source, and therefore freely available to the public at large. A more difficult part was configuring it to play nicely with my local development server, XAMPP running on my MacOS 10.5 box.
With occasional fumbling and chasing after red herrings I eventually succeded in installing the imageMagick library, enabling all kinds of OO image resizing goodness.