Joanna Walker

How to use special characters in FPDF

FPDF is a nice little library for php that allows you to create PDFs on the fly. It’s great for all sorts of document, among them invoices. Until you try to use say a pound (£) or euro (€) sign. Basically the library itself does not support utf-8, so the moment

openSUSE 11 on Lenovo Thinkpad X61 (tablet pc)

I have this weird ability to fall in love with gadgets that are not yet on the market… Twice in a row when choosing my laptop tablet pcs I went for something that will be available soon. This has the unfortunate disadvantage of being firstly very pricey, and secondly not

Server Error 500 - htaccess require valid-user

I just spent a good couple of minutes hitting my head against the wall, trying to figure out why a perfectly good .htaccess file suddenly stopped working. AuthName "Restricted Area" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /YOUR_PATH/www/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null require valid-user After commenting things out it seemed

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