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Posts Categorized: Techie
Compiling wkhtmltopdf on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Wkhtmltopdf is extremely cool. I’ve used qtwebkit for generating server-side page images before using python-webkit2png, and that’s fine (unlike using Firefox running in xvfb!), but I need to produce PDFs. So, I looked around and found several neat, simple PHP wrappers for calling wkhtmltopdf, and even a PHP extension. “Great”, I thought, “I’ll just install… Read more »
Domain name validation
I was revisiting the validation of domain names and realised that most of the regexes posted around the web have faults. Many refer to Sean Inman’s 2006 post, which does a fair job but is prone to break as new TLDs are introduced. This answer on StackOverflow is about the best I’ve found so far:… Read more »
Blog resurrection
After many years of procrastination, I’ve finally migrated my blog from Serendipity to WordPress, including importing all my old posts, and translating a bunch of metadata so that old URLs still work. I’ve been meaning to do this for ages, but what set me off today was spotting the lovely Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 Theme by… Read more »