December 2011
3 posts
Linode rocks →
I’ve been using Linode to host my websites for the past 2+ years and I’m thoroughly impressed by the service. I can’t recommend them enough — it is easily the best web hosting service I’ve used to date.
Couldn’t agree more.
PDFKit Usage →
Wkhtmltopdf is an open source project that uses the WebKit rendering engine to convert HTML to native PDF code. This is the muscle behind the PDFKit gem and other projects like WickedPdf. In this article I am only going to focus on PDFKit with Rails. But many topics will apply to both PDFKit and WickedPdf since they use wkhtmltopdf on the backside.
Great guide for starting with PDFKit.
VirtualBox Linux local networking
From time to time, I run an Ubuntu virtual host on my Mac OSX machine (in VirtualBox) for testing and trying. It took me a while to figure out, how to setup this virtual machine so it has access to the Internet as well as local access to my host.
For referencial purposes, here goes:
In your VirtualBox preferences, add a ‘host-only network’ (vboxnet0).
Adapter Settings:
DHCP...