It has recently come to my attention that the use of “Inc” or “Incorporated” in your name while not actually having filed for an incorporation is illegal.

I wanted to make certain that I am in no way trying to mislead any visitors, clients, or others about the status of this website. My original intention was to create a place for my personal portfolio, and offer my services. I thought that Aken Inc was just a swell name (Aken is a nickname of mine, by the way).

With that said, I’m in the process of creating a new identity for my business, which will, of course, mean a change of domain. It’s unfortunate that the few links that are out there will end up being broken, but a few is better than a lot.

If you have any questions, please contact me Thank you

This is a fantastic article regarding some talented and acknowledged typographers, and what their actual handwriting looks like. I thought it was cool

I’ve mentioned the Newsletter services available in a prior blog post, but I haven’t had much response to it. So I’d like to offer a couple customers a free setup for the service – all you pay for is sending the campaign (only $0.02 per email). This includes access to Aken Inc’s newsletter software, one free custom HTML template, and basic consulting to help learn the basics.

If you’re interested, give me a shout!

At my full-time design and development job, I’ve recently been starting to learn the ropes of PHP. I’ve always had interest in PHP, as well as some basic knowledge of its structure and some functions.

Anyway, for a couple projects I’ve had to learn more about the image functions built into PHP. They’re pretty amazing – ability to create full-fledged images out of many variables, other images, text, dynamic content, etc.

One fantastic tool I found while researching how to create graphs is an Anti-Alias Arcs script by Ulrich Mierendorff. Here’s a blurb about it:

In many cases websites need dynamically created images: pie charts, rounded corners, menu buttons, etc. This list is endless. PHP, or more precisely the GD library, provides filled elliptical arcs, but they are not antialiased. Therefore I have written a function to render filled antialiased elliptical arcs or filled antialiased ellipses (as well as circles..) with PHP easily. Drawing these filled arcs is now a one-liner.

Here’s a neat graph I made using Ulrich’s script, with the help of some example code and the PHP Manual:

Hope this has helped you in your efforts to create visually-appealing arcs in your PHP-generated images And thanks Ulrich for the great script! You can learn more about him at http://mierendo.com/

You can now find a small form on the bottom left hand side of the AI home page that will allow you to register for the official AI newsletter.

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