Unleashed Technologies wants to take a moment to wish everyone a happy new year. 2009 brings us another year closer to the end of a decade and new beginnings for start-ups, non-profits, and companies. While people faced the most serious business challenges they've ever had over the course of 2009, 2010 offers the opportunity for companies to reinvent themselves and start-ups to seize the moment.

Method chaining is a fluent interface design pattern used to simplyify your code. If you've used frameworks like Zend or jQuery, you probably have some experience with chaining. Essentially your objects return themselves, allowing you to "chain" multiple actions together.

This past Thursday hosted the end of year GBTC Wine Tasting event. As far as council/community events go this is one of my favorites right up there with TechNite and ACG's Deal of the Year. Unleashed Technologies decided to be one of the pourers for the event. We did this for two reasons. First, to thank the local technology community that's been so good to us over the entire year of 2009.

This tutorial will explain how to take any image and proportionally shrink it to any size you define.

The three main goals of this function are:

1. Shrink an image to a defined size
2. Keep the new image proportional to the old image
3. Create the new image in the same directory as the old image with a defined prefix (i.e. 'tn_')

And here we go!