ASP, PYTHON? Hope nobody is afraid of snakes

[peewee_RotA]

We needed to resize a picture inside of the 2d engine we're using. So myself and another programmer were discussing it:

me: "I don't want to invest the time looking into resizing a picture in C"
Other Programmer: "Yeah it will probably take a week just to add that functionality"
me: "So can we just have the webpage that displays this picture resize it?"
Other Programmer: "No, it won't filter or resample it and it will look like crap"
me: "yeah and it'd be such a wast in processing power and dev time to have the server resize it when it gets sent to the server"
Other Programmer: "yep"

...1 minute passes...
 
me: "Wait what if I just resize it in python"
Other Programmer: "Yeah, that'll probably take 15 minutes to figure out"
 
This conversation happened 15 minutes ago
 
 

[quadz]

We needed to resize a picture inside of the 2d engine we're using.

If this is a server-side app, another simple solution could be to install the imagemagick library.

(Simple as apt-get install imagemagick on debian or ubuntu.)

Then just shell out to its convert program, like:

  `convert rose.jpg -resize 50% rose.png`

It supports somewhere around 9 billion options if you want to get fancy:
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php

But you don't need to learn the fancier options to script simple conversions as in the example above.

[peewee_RotA]

2 issues

Doing the resizing on the client is an option and therefore better left off of the server.


The server is unfortunately windows server 2003


But yeah, we solved what we thought was going to be a 3 day headache in 15 minutes with python. Python = awesome.

[[BTF]Sigma]

Python has allowed my cell phone to be used as a level and a 6-axis controller for my PC.

I have no idea how it does it but it's awesome.