The League of Extraordinary Developers

Telephone
0845 272 5205
Email
team@theled.co.uk

Portfolio

These are some of the projects we have been working on recently. As you can see we work on a wide variation of projects. (Please be aware that we do not get involved in the design side of web sites. The quality of design in these projects may vary).

Portfolio

PDF Creation plugin for CMS

Screen shot of PDF Creation plugin for CMS

Bluestorm New Media, asked us to help them create a PDF creation plugin for their in-house CMS that is being used by Humberside Police.

The tool needed to give editors the ability to create PDF newsletters with content from their site, including any appropriate imagery. Editors also needed to be able to reorder content, create any number of pages for their newsletters.

The tool was written as a plugin so it could be used for any of Bluestorm's clients using their CMS.

After our initial research and protoyping we went with using wkhtmltopdf to produce the PDF from the HTML views. This was done to allow easy previewing of content in HTML as the editors created the PDFs.

Work involved

  • Researched the best solution for creating the PDF document
  • Developed the plugin using Ruby on Rails
  • Created the necessary XHTML, CSS and JS
  • Setup the client's server to run the plugin

Services

  • Ruby on Rails
  • .Net
  • PHP
  • MySQL / MS SQL Server
  • NoSQL
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • Responsive Layout
  • Web Apps
  • Mobile Web Apps

Blog

  1. Blog title
    Keep your requests thin
    Post Date
    Friday, January 06 2012
  1. Blog title
    Storing a Product Catalog for eCommerce with a Document Database
    Post Date
    Monday, November 21 2011
  1. Blog title
    Success for Incentive Maker - Hull Digital Post
    Post Date
    Friday, July 08 2011
  1. Blog title
    SASS, Compass and some clarity
    Post Date
    Thursday, June 16 2011
  1. Blog title
    The League of Extraordinary Developers : Year One
    Post Date
    Friday, April 01 2011
  1. Blog title
    A Client, a Sales Team, Incentives and the development of a Commercial Application
    Post Date
    Tuesday, February 01 2011
  1. Blog title
    jQuery Mobile SASS Alpha 2 released
    Post Date
    Friday, November 12 2010
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Twitter

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    As part of the upgrade we also converted all the JS to CoffeeScript. #happygeeks
    Date
    10:46 AM Mar 01
  2. Tweet
    We finally got @IM_app upgraded to rails 3.2. Pretty smooth upgrade with lots of green from the tests.
    Date
    10:41 AM Mar 01
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