Programmatically generating PDF documents is a common requirement in many of our client projects at bitcrowd. While in Ruby there is a multitude of battle-proven libraries to choose from, the PDF library landscape in the Elixir/Erlang ecosystem is just beginning to evolve. Today, we introduce ChromicPDF, a fast and convenient Chrome-based HTML-to-PDF converter, written in Elixir.
Code reviews are essential for software development in teams. They’re useful to share domain knowledge and best practices within the team, ensure consistent code quality, and lower the number of defects in the software. Reviewing code is hard though.
How to get URLs valid inside and outside of a docker-compose network
When debugging (or during security audits) it may be handy to know which data exactly is encoded in a session cookie. This is especially important because authentication frameworks like guardian store authentication secrets in sessions and we need to know they are stored securely. For the Phoenix web framework session cookies are encoded in a special format. In this post we follow Phoenix’ cookie storage implementation to find out how sessions are encoded.