Christian Heilmann

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Generating thumbnails with PHP and GD

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

This rather old article is now moved to icant.co.uk where it belongs and I ditched the gd1 information. It describes how you can generate thumbnails from images on the fly using PHP and the gd library.

You can check it at: http://www.icant.co.uk/articles/phpthumbnails/

Busy sunny day, happy easter to all!

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

I spent the day on my new bicycle riding into London to go to the computerfair for some cheap hardware (USB 2 enclosure + 160GB Maxtor for 60 Pound!) and found the coolest DVD carrier case ever:
DVD carrier bag shaped like a big hamburger

I also realised that it might be handy to use the bus lane as a cyclist but rather bad for your lungs…

Click for water

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

It’s just a simple click for you, but it means that the european plastics industry donates 10 cents to ensure that people in Ethiopia get clean water. Having spent 3 months in India brushing my teeth with bottled water I gladly give that one click.

If you are also baffled about company internal memos

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

Try Bullfighter, a Word Plugin that eliminates jargon and useless corporate mumbo-jumbo.

icant.co.uk redesign done

Monday, March 21st, 2005

It’s done! icant.co.uk is up and live with the new design and layout. While I will write some words why and how the redesign was done, I’d be grateful for any feedback.