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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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Help beta test an HTML2PDF Web Service

In an earlier post I asked if anyone would be interested to help me out test a web service for converting HTML to PDF. Today I’m opening up the beta to anyone that’s interested. Please visit https://html2pdfwebservice.com/ and sign-up for a 7-day trial account. No credit card required! Trial length can be extended upon request. Converting HTML …

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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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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 …

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