Journal

You may have noted from the links in the leftside column that the journal is divided into three sections.

Diary - anything interesting that is going on in my life and is not computer related.
General Spiel - journal entries that are vaguely to do with computers, the internet or aspects of this site.
Technical - entries that have a proper grounding in technical aspects of computers and the internet. Ideas on new scripting techniques will appear here first.

Most items will have a little icon by the title which gives some idea of the current status of the entry.

Those with a tick by them are completed tasks.

Those with a clockface by them are works in progress.

2 Random Journal Entries

statusreplicated error ( technical ) 23rd Jul 2003

Pestered a few people to run some GD image creation coding on servers running GD2.0.9 and 2.0.12 to see whether the render error was replicated. It rendered badly on all the 2.0.12 builds and worked fine on the 2.0.9 build, thus confirming my suspicions.
Tried a bit more simple coding here and determined that within the ImageCopyMerge function the colour of the destination image pixel is totally ignored (or recognized as 0,0,0 [black]) and the opacity value is only affecting the source image colour (the overlay as such).

The host said they wouldn't backgrade the GD build, so I guess I'll have to put up with it for a while (not enough time at the moment to write an adequate workaround function). Re-attributed the transitions for the nasa and usra thumbnail grabs to show a simple frame effect - so they at least look ok for the moment.

Wrote a note to Thomas Boutell and friends letting them know the problems I am having since the upgrade, along with my theorized cause. Just have to wait and see now.

statusback to work again ( diary ) 15th Jul 2003

Have been slacking a bit recently, what with the nice weather and a preference for sitting in the garden rather than inside.
Anyway, even though it is still beautifully sunny outside, I have decided to try to get a few things done around here today. Am finishing off my CV and a portfolio page before commencing with the long list of to-do items.

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