ImageMagick seems to handle transparencies better.

GD seems to handle animated gif thumbnails better — sure, it’s static, but it’s relatively clean.  Imagemagick looks like it just barfs everything up when you try to use it with GIFs.  Maybe I need to apply some hacks to Gallery2?

I Draw Too Much hasn’t had anything new in a while.  I was futzing around with the watermarking feature (when it’s applied to transparent PNGs/GIFs, it screws up when you use GD).  I’m not all that paranoid about it and I doubt that many people are going to try and steal my drawings, but whatever.  I have the turtle copywritten, although to be honest, I’d really prefer if somebody stole it and made money off it so I could just sue them and not have to do much work.  I draw too much.

Stuff I plan on doing:

• Aforementioned Gallery2 tweaks to allow different image processors on different albums.
• Better Wordpress/Gallery2 interaction; WPG2 or whatever it’s called is decent, but rather buggy and picky about certain things.  I couldn’t get it to function properly/the way I wanted it to, so I’m going to write my own damn version.  All I want is new images to appear in a widget!
• Clean up, genericize, and post the source code to my image hosting thing.  Should I leave in the image display randomizer thing?  It’s mainly geared towards forum signatures I guess, but you could use it in any instance that you wanted to have an image displayed randomly.  Maybe I’ll just release both.

Download Wordpress Post Twitter Updater w/ tinyURL and Zi.ma URL Shortening

I modified the code from The original twitter updater and the twitter update with tinyURL API integration.

Unfortunately there seems to be a duplicate posting issue – The issue comes from wordpress’s automatic revision saving feature. If you’re affected, put define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false); in wp-config. I don’t see any other way to fix it, but when I do, I’ll post it.

1. Download the plugin (see above link.)
2. Unzip the compressed file to your hard drive.
3. Upload the “twitter_updater” folder to your wp-content/plugins folder.
4. Browse to the Plugins page under wp-admin and activate the plugin.
5. Setting the options: Browse to Manage->Twitter Updater.
6. On this page, you can set any options you would like to.