My struggles with a Mac

For the first time in my life I am away from a PC. I recently got a Mac and I have my struggles going on now... To begin with there were a few usability issues like the trackpad tap not working as a click which were simple preferences tweak. Then came the big one 
1) The Eclipse installation on Mac was not picking the proxy from the Safari settings so I had to set them myself. That can be done by downloading the Pac file from the automatic configuration script URL and then setting the right proxy in the Eclipse Network Connection Preferences section.
2) My Lync for Mac is not working for some reason. This still needs to be figured out. I will update this section once I am able to sort that out. 
3) There is no Propose New Time functionality in the Outlook Calendar. (Sad :()
4) The Outlook Calendar in Mac shows 1 hour slot as big as 2 hours in my Outlook Calendar in Windows which I am used to. This can be changed by going to Organize Menu and playing with the Scale. 

There will be more and I will keep updating this blog post for the small tweaks :). 

nJoi!!!
Abhishek

Server Side Image Generation from SVG

With SVG gaining so much traction lately many people are using that as a de-facto rendering technology in HTML world. This allows you to create awesome graphs and charts to visualize data using libraries like d3. 

There's one little problem which keeps you awake though and that is the fact that sometimes there are requirements to send the same graphics in and email as a image or a pdf and that becomes impossible because of the fact that there are no headless webkits available on the server side to do the rendering and convert them to image. Faced with this problem I explored a few options. The path I chose is 

1) Use EnvJS as a server side DOM.
2) Using EnvJS create a Batik SVGDOM everytime you encounter a SVG Element. 
3) Use Rhino to host EnvJS (the server is a java server)
4) Use Batik to convert the Batik SVGDOM into an image.


And it works just fine.. 

Happy Coding!!

Abhishek