Extracting text from PDFs without pdftotext
How to extract text from PDFs in Java with Apache PDFBox when pdftotext and its X Windows dependencies are unavailable.
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Loading Different Javascript/CSS Files in Different Environments
How to configure Symfony to load separate unminified JavaScript and CSS files in development and minified assets in production through environment-specific settings.
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How Symfony’s internationalization and localization features use translation dictionaries to support multiple languages and regional formats without maintaining separate app copies
Read the postMonkeys and shakespeare: genetic algorithms with Jenes
This morning, I decided to see what Wikipedia had to say about monkeys and typewriters and eventually stumbled across an article about the “Weasel program” which Richard Dawkins wrote to demonstrate “random variation and non-random cumulative selection in natural and artificial evolutionary systems.” Basically, it simulates the monkeys on a typewriter to produce a line from Hamlet. At this point, I was hooked – I wanted to make one.
Read the postMS SQL starts on wrong port
Debugging MS SQL Server 2008 Express accepting JDBC and Solr connections on port 1170 despite configuration and errors indicating port 1433.
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