Every so often I’d like to save something as a PDF for future reference. Most often it’s webpages (for my own use), but also other things like documents, spreadsheets and other stuff for distribution in a format which – most likely – is readable by anyone.
It turned out, that using Ubuntu, creating a PDF [...]
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Ubuntu: Printing to PDF
Oct 17
Sure it doesn’t happen that often, but sometimes you might need to change the IP number of your machine running Ubuntu. Either to configure it with a static IP number on your LAN or temporarily to configure a Wifi router – the latter being my case.
The first shot at changing the ip number, was going [...]
Mac: Navigation i Finder
Jul 30
(This post is in Danish) Indrømmet. Der er en ting ved Mac’en, der altid har irriteret mig grænseløst, og som faktisk har gjort, at jeg sikkert noget oftere end gennemsnittet, bruger et terminal vindue under OSX til at lave mange af de ting, som man normalt bruger Finder til (Finder er det, der svarer til [...]
Mac: Autostart programmer
Nov 29
Når man starter sin computer, er der ofte en del programmer, der startes automatisk. Kommer man fra windows, ligger en del af disse i start-mappen under programmer, men en sådan findes ikke lige i OSX, så hvordan finder man så ud af hvilke programmer, der startes automatisk (og hvordan fjerner man dem igen).
For at styre [...]
Your mileage may vary
Nov 9
It’s always fun to read articles with tips and tricks by other developers and see how they figure “best practices” are handled. Most developers do seem to thing they observations and practices are easily adopted by anyone, and should be accepted without any argumentation or reasoning behind the advice.
One of the nice examples of this, [...]
If you’re working on heavy duty websites, knowing your database and how to use it best can make a world of difference in terms of performance, and thus you should always optimize the database. That’s pretty much obvious.
The tricky part is how you do the optimization? Often it requires a lot of reading up on [...]