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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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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Late June this year I got myself a Nintendo Wii U. After all these years it’s still exciting to unpack a new console. I decided to get a Wii U because Microsoft and Sony disappointed me with their new consoles and games and because I was ready for something new and for Nintendo. Having skipped
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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.
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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
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