When clicking on the link to the Kiplinger 2008 Best Cities list, I was thinking, “OK, where do I need to move?”
But it looks like I’m already there! 🙂
www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/2008/05/2008-best-city-houston.html
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Looking for a way to create PDFs programmatically that have Hindi
Trying to automate the creation of PDFs with the Hindi flashcards for www.ISpeakHindi.com. I am open to anything that can run on Windows or Linux.   I prefer something that would run on Linux so I can put it on the webserver. So I am focused on looking at solution in PHP or Ruby.
I found a wonderful PDF creation library for PHP, but it does not support unicode:
I found a “not quite ready for PRO” version that has been internationalized
I could not get it to work with the Hindi characters, i.e. à ¤• à ¤– à ¤— à ¤˜ etc.
I found PDF::Writer for Ruby, but still no luck..
In the process of looking for this, I found this Ruby on Rails screen cast in Hindi:
About ISpeakSindhi.com
Have you heard of Sindhi? Or about a place called Sindh? Well, that is actually where Meena and Nariandas are from. And Sindhi is their first language. Almost a year ago when I had registered ISpeakHindi.com and ISpeakSindhi.com, my plans were to develop ISpeakHindi.com, this site, as far as possible. It would have very sophisticated podcasts, with exercises and quizzes. There would be a very good Hindi/English dictionary. There would even be a “language course configurator” that would determine what your purpose for learning Hindi is, how you learn best, how much time you have to learn, etc. And it would recommend a course to learn Hindi and track your progress. After this, I would then take what we did for Hindi and apply it to Sindhi.
Well, almost a year has passed. ISpeakHindi.com is not near as far a long as I thought it would be. But we are still making progress. And it is serving its main purpose of making sure that I learn Hindi, and that I meet other Hindi speakers. But it is still far, far, far off from the dreams I have.. Don’t worry, we will get there!
But the domain for ISpeakSindhi.com is up for renewal. And I have a deal with my wife…use them or loose them. So, I must start making progress with ISpeakSindhi.com. If any of you are interested in learning some Sindhi, or know somebody that would, then please visit: www.ISpeakSindhi.com It will be much slower. We plan to only do one very short, basic podcast a week. Maybe just introduce a word or a phrase.