Simple automatic PDF generation
It seems like an impossible task, generating a simple PDF on the fly. Well, maybe not that simple, I need quite a complex table in it, as I told you in a previous post. Bit it doesn’t seem to be that difficult, really. I’ve dropped TeX as a possible way to do it, since tabulary just doesn’t seem to work right. Bart suggested Report Lab, who have developed a PDF library for Python. A good one, as far as I can see at the moment. But still not easy enough to really create the PDF I want. I still need a bit of practise with it, though.
I’m thinking about notifying the customer that I may not be ready with the pdf-part by next week. I’ll have to discuss this with Bart and Peter first, though. Maybe they don’t see things as glum as I do. Delaying the PDF-part may be not really a problem, since people still get a HTML-version of the same info. Perhaps a possible solution for it, one that they can use in the meantime, is just printing the HTML. I’ll figure something out. Maybe tomorrow things will go faster, though. I’ll be working all day in Eindhoven with Peter. I’ll be more focussed that way, I think. We’ll see.
Dancetest, the result
For those of you who were expecting a post yesterday evening, sorry, I didn’t come around to it. Of course we’ve made it, although I’m not really happy with the scores we got. They probably reflect reality, but I still think they should be better for us. We got 7.5′s for all ballroom dances, 7.5 for Rhumba and Samba and 8 for Chachacha and Jive. Not bad scores at all, but I really feel the Rhumba and Samba should’ve been better. On the other hand, the ballroom-scores were much higher than I expected. Ah well, c’est la vie.
Next Sunday we’ll start with Silver Star, the next level in dancing. It’s going to be a fun group, I’ve noticed. Some people who we talked to quite often and who already did Silver Star wanted to do it again before doing the dance test and everyone from Silver we like go to Silver Star too. So I’m looking forward to that. I’ve already heard that the first lesson will be the complete new programme for Chachacha… We’ll see. It’s going to be fun, though. :)
