August 2013

Hook up your guitar to GarageBand on iPad with your Rocksmith Real Tone Cable

Do you own an iPad? Have you got GarageBand installed on it? And do you per change own the game Rocksmith (for PC, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3) with the included Real Tone Cable? Yes? Good! Now go get yourself a (cheap) USB adapter for your iPad so you can hook up your Real Tone …

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How to catch and test sent e-mails in your app

A nice gem (literally, it’s a Ruby program) I stumbled upon yesterday is called MailCatcher. Using MailCatcher you can catch all the mail that’s being sent by the app you’re developing and (re)view their contents. MailCatcher makes this possible by running (or rather being) a simple SMTP server. All you’ve got to do is direct your …

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Create a PDF document out of an HTML page

Perl has several modules on CPAN for creating and manipulating PDF files. Just a single search on PDF results in over 500 modules that have something to do with PDF files. The most useful (or rather essential for PDF processing) are PDF::API2 and CAM::PDF. The former lends itself best for creating PDF’s and the latter …

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