Posted by admin on May 29, 2008 in
Uncategorized
When clicking on the link to the Kiplinger 2008 Best Cities list, I was thinking, “OK, where do I need to move?”
But it looks like I’m already there!
http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/2008/05/2008-best-city-houston.html
Posted by admin on May 15, 2008 in
Hindi,
Linux,
programming
Trying to automate the creation of PDFs with the Hindi flashcards for http://www.ISpeakHindi.com. I am open to anything that can run on Windows or Linux. I prefer something that would run on Linux so I can put it on the webserver. So I am focused on looking at solution in PHP or Ruby.
I found a wonderful PDF creation library for PHP, but it does not support unicode:
http://www.fpdf.org/
I found a “not quite ready for PRO” version that has been internationalized
http://acko.net/blog/ufpdf
I could not get it to work with the Hindi characters, i.e. क ख ग घ etc.
I found PDF::Writer for Ruby, but still no luck..
In the process of looking for this, I found this Ruby on Rails screen cast in Hindi:
http://www.fromjaipur.com/?p=4