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Generator code released as open source
Posted on December 4, 2008 by Ryland
I made a big decision. For a long time, I didn't want to release the source code for my generators, but I changed my mind. I've put together a package of source code and images for two example generators, one church sign and one badge. The package is released as open source software under the GNU GPL v2 license. You can read more and download the package here. Church sign generators work again
Posted on December 2, 2008 by Ryland
The church signs and a few other generators were offline for the past day or so. The breakage was the result of a minor cascade of problems. First off, the web server that hosts the site developed a hardware fault. The folks at Verve Hosting moved the site over to a new server, so there was no downtime. (By the way, I've been using Verve Hosting for a few years now and they've been consistently awesome and have put up with plenty of my shenanigans. If you need a web host, I highly recommend them.) When they moved the server, they updated the software, including the ImageMagick library, which I use for most of the image manipulation duties on this site. The problem was that ImageMagick changed the syntax of a certain API method between version 6.4.1 and 6.4.6, and consequently all the scripts that use that method crashed. I've updated all the scripts that use the new method syntax, so everything is working as before. Please let me know if you run into any problems. Sarah Says
Posted on November 17, 2008 by Ryland
It's a little late, but someone requested it... Sarah Says.
I think I won the internet
Posted on October 8, 2008 by Ryland
Well, me and whoever is responsible for the "all dogs go to heaven" church sign battle picture that's been making the rounds lately.
I didn't generate that image, but it was obviously done by someone using the Church Sign Generator. Evidently enough people believed it was real that Snopes now has an entry debunking it.
So that's pretty fun. Internet high-fives to whoever put that image together, that's funny stuff. I owe you a beer.
I think my favorite part of this is the backstory that gets attributed to it: somehow, someone decided that it was two churches in a Southern town, situated across the street from each other. How did that come about? Even if you assume the signs are real and not faked, how do you infer that it's a town in the South, and not in, say, New Jersey or Minnesota? And how do you know they're in the same town, much less across the street from each other? I love that, that people need to fill in those details to make it more real. |
