Christiaan Kras

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 […]

Create a PDF document out of an HTML page Read More »

Twitter Bootstrap 3

It looks like Twitter Bootstrap 3 is just around the corner! I’ve been using Twitter Bootstrap 2 for an internal project and have used it for other quick prototypes as well (including the first Twitter Bootstrap). It’s an awesome framework for quickly putting a nice looking user interface together. Version 3 promotes itself as mobile-first.

Twitter Bootstrap 3 Read More »

Server provisioning: my experience with Puppet and Chef

Server provisioning tools such as Chef and Puppet make it easy to automate installation and configuration of your servers. I’ve used both now in two projects where they provisioned my virtual servers built with Vagrant. I’ve first heard of Chef and Puppet when I started using Vagrant. With Vagrant you can quickly get a virtual

Server provisioning: my experience with Puppet and Chef Read More »

Pulling the plug on Maximus, the BlitzMax Module Manager

A couple of weeks ago I talked about the future of Maximus and said that I would inform you about my decision once it was made. I’ve come to a decision about Maximus and have decided that I will pull the plug on it. I just don’t know when yet. For the time being the website

Pulling the plug on Maximus, the BlitzMax Module Manager Read More »

Scroll to Top