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GPX library for PHP

January 4, 2023

OpenSource GPX library for PHP, code available on GitHub: https://github.com/loskoderos/gpx-php What is this? GPX (GPS Exchange Format) is a de facto standard file format for sharing GPS tracks in the travel/adventure/overland circles. The library contains a GPX reader and writer allowing you to easily work with GPX files in PHP applications. What is GPX used […]

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Rabarbar - Yet another website screenshot tool

August 24, 2019

Rabarbar is a simple utility to render a website screenshot. It is the engine behind Miniature.io project.The application is based on QWebEngine library from Qt toolkit, which is based on Chromium. Rabarbar can be used as a standalone tool to generate screenshots in your projects. Rabarbar sources on GitHub: https://github.com/loskoderos/rabarbar Sample websites captured with Rabarbar […]

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Faktura PHP - Generate PDF invoices in PHP

October 5, 2018

Faktura in polish means invoice and this library is created to render pretty invoices in PHP. Project source code on GitHub: https://github.com/loskoderos/faktura-php Faktura is a simple standalone PHP library for rendering PDF invoices in PHP. You can easily integrate it into your own project using standard tools like composer. Currently, Faktura depends on xvfb and wkhtmltopdf to create PDF […]

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Building an ultimate remote Linux workstation

August 5, 2018

Laptop vs Desktop If you use computers to make living, chances are, you’ve at least once had to make a decision whether to get a laptop or a desktop as your primary working machine. Some get both. Frankly, I hate working on multiple computers. Why? Because you need to maintain multiple environments, sync lots of […]

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Linuxizing your Windows PC #2

February 20, 2018

Last week I presented how to setup basic Linux features on Windows through the Bash On Windows aka Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). You should be now able to run variety of Linux apps both command line and with GUI. Also, presented how to install Docker and Vagrant which are popular tools to isolate your host environment from development playground. Let’s install essential […]

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Linuxizing your Windows PC #1

February 10, 2018

On 30th of March 2016 hell officially froze. Microsoft, the eternal rival of the open source movement, has officially announced that form now on you can run Linux apps on Windows! Just like that. Those of you who are in IT for years may recall a famous sentence Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft, said in 2001. He called […]

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Hello world!

January 1, 2016

World, this is Los Koderos. Los Koderos, this is World.