Category: Life

• Changing the World S3 image generator

  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

  Brooke.

  July 3, 2013

  Life, php

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• Happy Fourth WordPress Birthday to Me

  Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.

  Today marks my fourth year anniversary having a WordPress.org account and when I remember first starting to use WordPress for my blog.  I thought it would be fun to recap what I’ve accomplished since September 27th 2007 and what some of my long term WordPress goals are.

  WordPress and Me Thus Far

  In 2007 I started using WordPress for just my blog didn’t know what I was doing download a theme hacked up some CSS/PHP finally got everything working after hours of trying. Since that time here’s what I’ve been able to do:

  • Became one of the Three most important people to WordPress
  • Contributed to/wrote 5 plugins with a total download count of 121,331
  • Updated 3 articles in the Codex
  • Attended WordCamp Seattle
  • Dipped my feet into WordPress Core Trac
  • Got involved in the WordPress.org Forums and at http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/
  • Updated my personal site to run completely on WordPress and Hybrid
    
    

  What’s next?

  Here are some of my longterm WordPress goals:

  • Become a core contributor (even if it’s just fixing a typo)
  • Meet Matt Mullenweg
  • Continue to be involved in the Forums, discussions and Codex of WordPress
  • Attend WordCamp SF
  • Continue to attend WordCamp Seattle

  Do you use WordPress? If so how? How long have you been using it? What are some of the things you like best?

  Brooke.

  September 27, 2011

  Geeky, Life, WordPress

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• Get Involved with WPBook!

  Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.

  As you may know I’ve been working with WPBook for the past 2 years. In that time I’ve watched the project grown dramatically the plugin now has over 73,000 downloads. However, the project has only had a handful of people who have gotten involved with the project.  Therefore, I wanted to write a quick blog post and give you a few ways to get involved.

  Are you a programmer?
  Great, we keep track of bugs and feature request over at our bug tracking system http://bugs.wpbook.net. If you get a moment fix a bug or add a feature. You may also just wish to use this system to report bugs.

  Are you a graphic designer?
  Cool, you may be able to help us cook up some neat graphics for WPBook, update our logo, or just give us feedback that could otherwise improve the project.

  Are you a writer?
  Neat-o, we can use your help to spruce up the docs making sure they are easy to understand, accurate, clever and free of typos .

  Want more ways to get involved?
  Okay there are plenty of  other ways to get involved. Head on over to the support forms and help a fellow user. I’ve also just set up a donate page where you can make a donation to help pay for website cost. We are also pledging to give 50% of any donations made to Charity Water. With a goal of $500.

  If  you have any questions or comments please let me know. Thanks!

  Brooke.

  February 18, 2011

  Life, wp-plugins, WPBook

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• Messy Business

  I’m currently rearranging and reorganizing this site to contain the most recent up to the data info. Sorry for the mess I don’t normally like to leave things unfinished.

  Brooke.

  January 1, 2011

  Life, Random

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