What turned out to become part of our site implementation of Spangles Speed Sprint started out as a little experiment of mine. Following suit of sites such as DailyBooth, how hard can it be to grab an image from your webcam using Flash and add a watermark to it? Turns out, not too difficult at all.

Making a Flash webcam photobooth

If you've played around with 1000words at all recently, you'll notice a neat little trick happens when you post a text message containing a YouTube URL:

Converting URLs into links and YouTube videos

So Christmas is over. Time to get back to the grind, I guess. There's been an update to Spaced before this one, admittedly, but I'll tell you more about that when there's more substantial an update.

A redesigned 1000words

So I, more recently than Spaced, had another crit session but this time about my PHP work. This time 1000words was under the microscope.

How to improve 1000words

So it was my friend Steve's birthday yesterday, so naturally I should have gotten him a present. Although, if you ever know me as a person, you'll rarely get an actual present and usually either a card, some stupid little thing you'll never use, or some one-off hand made thing of awesome. This present was the awesome variety. And a chance to practice some PHP. Awesome.

How 'Steve's So Badass…' works

The second chunk of project we have to complete this fortnight is PHP and MySQL based. The brief is pretty loose on this one. It's simply making a website that puts things and/or gets things from a database. Of course, in the lessons we've done a simple comments system and image uploader, but I'm aiming to go that little bit further and cramming it all into one and making it portable.

Designing a site with database interaction

Success! I passed my first year of Interactive Media Production at Bournemouth Uni. Go me! But that's not really what this post is about.

Tag: PHP