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Gnucash with MySQL: Creating custom invoices with PDF output and template based email to the customer
12 Jul
Posted in Database No comments

Gnucash with MySQL: Creating custom invoices with PDF output and template based email to the customer

I’ve been using GnuCash for some time and have found it to be a great product. Where GnuCash falls short, in my opinion, is it doesn’t provide for scheduled automatic invoice generation. Additionally creating custom invoices involves learning Scheme which personally I don’t have time to get my head around. So I set out to fix these 2 issues using the tools I know well, namely MySQL, perl, and good old HTML. This post will cover custom invoice generation to html and pdf, and emailing the results to the customer using a template. GnuCash scheduled automatic invoice creation will be covered in another post in the near future. Read more about Gnucash with MySQL: Creating custom invoices with PDF output and template based email to the customer …

How to set what the volume control actually controls in your Android app
09 Dec
Posted in Android 2 comments

How to set what the volume control actually controls in your Android app

I was recently working on an Android application  and found that when debugging the volume was to low. Using the volume control on the phone would only increase the ringer volume. By accident I found that if a media sound was playing then the volume controls would control the media volume,which indicated that the default action for theRead more about How to set what the volume control actually controls in your Android app[…]