I wrote another simple extension for the Chrome browser. Sometimes I have to deal with two browser windows placed side by side — with the standard MediaWiki-Laoyut this looks very messed up and is a pain to read.
The extension overwrites parts of the stylesheet and displays the content in a clean and easy readable way.
Standard MediaWiki-Layout
With extension
The extension is available in the Google Gallery.
Btw: I use Cinch (Mac) to easily place floating windows. Great program. Really useful!
Several banking houses use LaTeX to generate their bank statements (in german: Kontoauszüge) into pdfs. There are many pros to such a system: speed, small pdf size and a large number of packages, for example. In my case I had to adjust the invoices of a Magento Online-Shop instance.
I didn’t want to get into the Zend PDF printer and since I am quite familiar with LaTeX I took the opportunity to develop an extension. Of course no web server runs TeX out of the box. But since it is really easy to install a TeX distribution like TexLive, this shouldn’t be a problem if you own a root server and have some disk space.
Basically I wrote an extension for Magento which serves pdf invoices generated from a LaTeX template.
This means that it is very easy to modify your invoice template, so that it uses your corporate design etc.. This also means that your invoices will stop looking poor and start looking tight 🙂 .
The code is available for free, licensed under the LGPL.
Check out my github account for more informations.
Update: Seeing that there were some visitors looking for LaTeX invoice templates: You find them here.
Update: If you are interested in what other industry applications LaTeX is used for check out this post.
Important: Wolfgang Mederle has created an updated version of the module. I wrote my code a couple of years ago and Magento has undergone some changes in the meantime. If you want to use the module today you will be better off using Wolfang’s module. You can find his code here. Thanks Wolfgang!
I wrote a small and simple extension for the Google Browser Chrome.
Basically the extension overwrites the “New Tab”-Page and displays a slight homescreen with your lately closed tabs and some favorite pages.
Of course I know that there are similar extensions, that do exactly the same thing. I used to use those, but I didn’t come across a single one that had a great design.
So after stumbling about a design idea of chancellorr from deviantart I decided to write a simple extension. I redid many of his graphics (because of support for higher screen resolutions) and tweaked some things around.
The extension is licensed under MIT and the code is freely available at my github account.
You can install the extension from the Google Gallery.
