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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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 …
Monkey by Blitz Research Ltd has been re-branded to Monkey X. Monkey X focuses on multi-platform and multi-device game development. Monkey code translates to the language used by the platform. Javascript for HTML5 games for example and C#/XNA when targeting Xbox 360. Supported platforms are Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android, WP7/8, Xbox …
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My new laptop has a 17″ full HD screen and I noticed that in Firefox websites would appear larger than they’re actually are. At first I thought I had accidentally zoomed in a bit but Firefox reported it was at 100%. The cause of this behavior is because Firefox looks at the pixel density of …
As of today Maximus, the BlitzMax Module Manager, has been taken down. I’ve blogged about this some time ago and today I’ve decided it was finally time to go through with it. The website now redirects to the GitHub organization that hosts the code for the client and the website. These will still be available …