How to Generate PDFs in Python for Google App Engine
One of my last projects based on google app engine and python involved storing form data in GAE datastore and generating PDF documents that the user can download. Whilst data storing was the easier part as google’s big data API it is pretty well documented, the trickier aspect was to convert...
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3 Steps to integrate barcode scanning in your Android app
Whilst barcode scanning is a pretty complex and non-trivial task in itself, it could be overwhelming sometimes with android programming. Lucky for us, there exists an opensource project called ZXing (pronounced Zebra-crossing) that solves this problem for us. The ZXing project has already done the heavy lifting by programming the...
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Some Wordpress tips and tricks
Wordpress is a universally recognized and robust blogging platform written in the PHP language. Below are a bunch of Wordpress tricks that I’ve learned during my deployments, and I’d like to share with you. 1. Change breadcrumbs to start from “Home” instead of Site-Title: When I set up this site,...
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Wordpress installation quick-start guide
Wordpress is a blogging platform that is very easy to use, but involves many configuration trivia which may become overwhelming, unless organized and documented somewhere. Based on my experience of setting up this website, here are the things that I had to keep in mind to get it up and...
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