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Use older version of Node.js on MacOS with homebrew

Homebrew (or brew) for MacOS is great, but one thing I dislike is how it can upgrade to a major release of say Node.js or Perl. This usually comes with a lot of incompatibility issues because not all modules you’ve got installed work yet or require reinstalling. To switch to an older version you can …

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Cyberduck

Not too long ago I talked about an alternative for my Rackspace Cloud Files Sync application. Recently I moved my pictures and videos over to Microsoft OneDrive. I also use Dropbox but for my disk usage I found it to be a bit too expensive. With OneDrive I get 100GB for € 1.99 a month …

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Keeping VirtualBox Guest Additions in sync with Vagrant

Whenever you’re upgrading the software packages on your VirtualBox machine, managed by Vagrant, you risk VirtualBox Guest Additions render unusable and thus your shared folders don’t work anymore. This usually happens whenever a kernel upgrade is being done which requires the VirtualBox drivers to be recompiled. Thanks to a Vagrant plugin called vbguest you can …

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Convert HTML to PDF with HTML2PDF Web Service

Recently I launched my new product HTML2PDF Web Service — a web service for converting HTML to PDF. In this post I’d like to talk about HTML2PDF Web Service. Why to choose it, how to use it and what technologies were used to create it. Why Choose HTML2PDF Web Service? Programmatically generating PDF documents is …

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