Today on my personal blog I wrote a blog post about how I’m going to change the world. At the bottom of the post it contains this image:
Which when clicked links to http://changetheworld.broo.ke (offline).
Today I wanted to talk a bit about how that sub-domain image generator works, because frankly I think it’s pretty cool.
All the images are being stored on Amazon S3 storage meaning that image display should be faster and better than my local host. I’m also using a resize script to generate image sizes based on the users need.
So basically it works like this:
- The user types in the image size they would like and hits submit
- We check to see if the size is within a given range (between 100 and 1000 and divisible by 10) and if so we proceed
- Next, we check if the image is already on the server, If so we grab it, if not we create it.
- If the image is created it is done using an image resize script then uploaded to amazon S3
- We display a link to the new image and a link to it in the read-only text box.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
If anyone has any comments or would like the code please contact me or leave a comment below