Generating PDFs with Java, Flying Saucer and Thymeleaf (Part 2)

Last year, I wrote an article about generating PDFs with Java and Flying Saucer using Thymeleaf HTML templates. The article covered all basic steps to generate a simple (text only) PDF file. However, I got some comments on how to include images or how to style the PDF. So let’s have a look at part […]

Generating PDFs with Java, Flying Saucer and Thymeleaf (Part 1)

Generating PDFs can by a tough job. If you ever worked with templating engines like Jasper you probably know what I mean. On the other side, HTML makes it extremely simple to describe documents. So why not use HTML to generate PDFs? The following post shows a simple approach to generate PDFs with Thymeleaf templates […]

Booting an AngularJS application

Every back-end application has a boot process. Services must be instantiated, connections must be established and configurations must be loaded before the application is ready. How can we do something similar for an AngularJS application? ng-app The typical way to start an AngularJS application is to use the ng-app directive on an HTML element (mostly […]

Two-way binding for URL parameters in AngularJS

Single page applications (maybe with AngularJS?) are the new cool kid in town. So are URL parameters which are an essential part of how single page applications work. URL parameters hold the current state of an application and enable to open the application in this state (e.g. with a so called deep link). That’s how […]

Basic Auth log-out with JavaScript

Whenever you have a log-in on your site, the chance is high that you also want to have a log-out. The easiest way to do a log-in is to use HTTP’s Basic Auth. But how to do a log-out with Basic Auth? Basic Auth credentials are cached until the browser is closed The problem with […]

Show next image by clicking images in NextGEN Gallery V2.0.40

Last year I posted two modifications for the WordPress plugin NextGen Gallery and its Thickbox and Shutter effect (here is the old one for Thickbox and the old one for Shutter). The modification makes it possible to click on the current image to go forward to the next image. To close the slideshow you can […]

Media Night Winter Semester 2013/2014

During the last summer semester, two friends of mine and I made a student project called TechTrends. TechTrends was a web application that let you search for articles and trends in the field of computer science. Based on posts from Reddit and Hackernews, it provided an intelligent search on a growing number of articles and […]

Show next image by clicking images in NextGEN Gallery with shutter effect

Here‘s the same for NextGEN + Thickbox! Last year I posted an article about modifying NextGEN Gallery (with Thickbox) to show the next image when you click on the current one. This behaviour is well known from Facebook an co. To go to the next picture, just click on the current one. To close the […]

First steps with Ractive.js

During the summer I had a little bit of free time. I had no university courses, almost no on-going projects and was only working for two days a week. So I decided to build a small web app. Since I was couriosly waiting for some grades to arrive in the online portal of my university, […]

Bildoptimierung für Webseiten

Am vergangenen Montag (05. August 2013) haben ich die letzte Projektarbeit für dieses Semester abgeschlossen: ein Paper über Bildoptimierung für Webseiten. Zusammen mit Annette Landmesser habe ich das Paper für die Veranstaltung Entwicklung von Rich Media Systemen von Jakob Schröter an der HdM Stuttgart geschrieben. Ihr findet das Paper direkt von Google Drive hier. Unsere […]