links for 2009-10-22
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As of TODAY DJ Rockid, MC Dan Stezo and I (Jaimie Fanatic) started a new project by the name “Creme Fresh”. What we’re doing is disco-tech-house. We’ll be doing tag team dj shows and producing singles. “Do It Right” is our first single and featured in our first Mix Tape that you can download right here!
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Het online cultuurmagazine Cutting Edge heeft alle Youtube-filmpjes die het de voorbije maanden heeft gepubliceerd offline gehaald. De vzw achter de website kreeg enkele weken terug een forse factuur van Sabam in de bus.
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Wouldnt it be nice to generate your PDF reports the same way, by outputting HTML?
If youre running JRuby on Rails, this is a piece of cake! Using the great Flying Saucer Project (AKA xhtmlrenderer), you can convert your HTML + CSS to PDF documents. The great thing about Flying Saucer is that it will mostly render your HTML to PDF the same way standard compliant browsers will render it to screen. You have most of CSS 2.1 at your disposal, plus some custom CSS properties to handle print-specific matters such as paginated tables, and complex headers and footers. It has suprisingly few bugs, which really is an achievement when youre talking about a HTML renderer. Did I mention its pretty fast, even for very large documents?
Of course, this is a Java library, so you need to be running JRuby to use it from your Rails application (or you need to resort to interfacing with it through the command line).
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This article is a major update (a rewrite, actually) of my original Podcasting equipment guide. Ive tried a lot of gear and learned a lot since I wrote that article Ive been recording something almost daily for the last 4 years. While most of my recommendations in that article are still valid, I wanted to publish this update to share what Ive learned.
