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I just discovered the joy of marinating meat. This first attempt is inspired by the motherland, although the real Chinese would never cook chicken this way. Same goes for the Thai-style stir-fry, which is Thai only in style.
Be assured, though, that both came out tasty. (more…)
Another of my mom’s recipes. The noodles are quick to make, but the broth takes a while to simmer. (more…)
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Opticrop is a PHP script I wrote to crop a thumbnail of a specific width and height from a full-sized image.
Unlike most cropping routines out there, Opticrop uses edge-detection to find the most “interesting” part of the image to crop, so you won’t get a useless thumbnail just because the top-left corner of your image happened to be a big patch of featureless sky. This post is a big-picture discussion of my method. If you just want the script, see the post on Opticrop’s usage and implementation. (more…)
Opticrop is a PHP script I wrote to crop a thumbnail of a specific width and height from a full-sized image.
Unlike most cropping routines out there, Opticrop uses edge-detection to find the most “interesting” part of the image to crop, so you won’t get a useless thumbnail just because the top-left corner of your image happened to be a big patch of featureless sky. This post is an overview of usage and implementation. For a more general discussion, see my post on the methods behind the script. Also check out the live demo of Opticrop, with a slick jQuery interface. You can also get the Opticrop code on Github. (more…)