web development war stories from the frontlines to the backend

First of all, big shout out to antialize for creating wkhtmltopdf (github repo). Also, this project is being hosted on GitHub @ http://github.com/mreiferson/py-wkhtmltox. wkhtmltox What is wkhtmltox you ask? It’s a utility built on Nokia’s Qt framework for converting HTML (including images, CSS, and Javascript) to a PDF or image. When Qt introduced it’s webkit [...]

In Part I, I detailed the formative phases of our web development careers.  A providential encounter with a magazine article, tons of free time, inherent curiosity, youthful ambition were the perfect storm that threw us into the world of programming. At this time, Matt was admittedly more of a programmer than I was.  While our [...]

Get It Done

tags: , , , ,

Today’s comic at xkcd was entitled “Real Programmers”, which was hysterical. It got me thinking about a lot of blogs where flame wars erupt because fanboys think their current way of doing things is best, and yours is crap. Everyone has an opinion about which language/framework/web server/OS is The Best. It’s fine to have such [...]

  

Recent Posts

Categories

Archives

 

Recent Comments