Yash Barot yashbarot

Real-time Grid Component with Laravel, Vue.js, Vuex & Socket.io (Google Docs-like Functionality)

Motivation

The exercise of writing this tutorial -- as well as recording it as a screencast -- has helped me better understand the concepts behind a couple of my favorite open source tools. Both the tutorial and screencast will be of personal use in the future as references. If they are of help to others, that will be great too.

I love Google Docs' real-time, multi-user interactive capability, and I've have always been a fan of spreadsheets. I wanted to see if I could replicate that type of functionality. What I've done is taken the basic Vue.js Grid Component example and altered it a bit so that when a user clicks on a cell, that cell becomes highlighted or "active", not just in the user's browser but in any browser instance cur

How to Install Wkhtmltopdf and Wkhtmltoimage in Ubuntu

wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.3/wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
tar -xvf wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
cd wkhtmltox/bin/
sudo mv wkhtmltopdf  /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
sudo mv wkhtmltoimage  /usr/bin/wkhtmltoimage

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Custom recipe to get OS X 10.10 Yosemite running from scratch, setup applications and developer environment. I use this gist to keep track of the important software and steps required to have a functioning system after a semi-annual fresh install. On average, I reinstall each computer from scratch every 6 months, and I do not perform upgrades between distros.

This keeps the system performing at top speeds, clean of trojans, spyware, and ensures that I maintain good organizational practices for my content and backups. I highly recommend this.

You are encouraged to fork this and modify it to your heart's content to match your own needs.

Install Software

Basics

Creating a new PHPExcel Object.

    $this->PHPExcel = new PHPExcel();

Working with sheets

Creating a new sheet:

	<?php
	/**
	* Map function
	*
	* @return array
	*/
	function map($items, $func)
	{
	$result = [];