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ChrisRicca

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NYC or REMOTE http://TanookiLabs.com/iOS

iOS developers needed at our fast-growing Rails & iOS consultancy. We need full-time people, as well as part-time freelancers who want to build their own projects while working with us.

Why we're different:

- We focus on entrepreneurs and products, and are picky about our clients. Our goal is to learn from everyone we work with.

- We reject that idea that a shop needs to be a mill. We work 35hrs/week. A common refrain is "why are you still here? go home!"

- We're developers ourselves. We founded this thing because we love building.

- We believe that we win when our employees win, and codify that in great pay and serious profit sharing. When someone tries to steal you away to work on their new idea, I want you to smile and say "I can't, my gig's too sweet"

email us at contact AT tanookilabs.com if you'd like to chat!

PDFs in Pure Ruby 17 years ago

http://pdf-render.heroku.com/ - here's hello world in Sinatra with prawn, to give you a sense of how fun it is to use :)

require 'rubygems' require 'sinatra' require 'prawn'

get '/' do "<h1>This is a simple pdf rendering webservice. GET <a href='/hello%20world.pdf'>/hello%20world.pdf</a> to get a pdf back!</h1>" end

get '/*' do content_type('application/pdf') headers['Cache-Control'] = "public, max-age=6000000000000000000"

  pdf = Prawn::Document.new
  pdf.text(params[:splat][0].gsub(/.pdf\z/,''))
  pdf.render
end

If you want custom themes beyond what Google provides, I'm hawking a tool a hacked together a couple of weekends ago. It's a just-for-fun thing so the UI is pretty sparse, but it works! :)

http://sexychrome.com

I'm a big fan of Chrome. Favorite features include the speed, full-screen browsing, detachable tabs. Needs a robust extension for CSS inspection/manipulation, though. Built in one doesn't quite flow as well as Firebug. Decent JS console.