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Create PDF files from Markdown sources in OSX

When [Markdown][markdown] appeared more than 10 years ago, it aimed to make it easier to express ideas in an easy-to-write plain text format. It offers a simple syntax that takes the writer focus away from the formatting, thus giving her time to focus on the actual content.

The market abunds of editors to be used for help with markdown. After a few attempts, I settled to Sublime and its browser preview plugin, which work great for me and have a small memory footprint to accomplish that. To pass the results around to other people, less technical, a markdown file and a bunch of images is not the best approach, so converting it to a more robust format like PDF seems like a much better choice.

[Pandoc][pandoc] is the swiss-army knife of converting documents between various formats. While being able to deal with heavy-weight formats like docx and epub, we will need it for the more lightweight markdown. To be able to generate PDF files, we need LaTeX. On OSX, the s

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -o errexit
set -o nounset
set -o pipefail

function log {
    local now=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    echo "[$now] $1"
}

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am anthonysterling on github.
• I am anthonysterling (https://keybase.io/anthonysterling) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is A316 F82A 8C37 5842 161B 7605 D89F 878F B669 73BC

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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# Usage:    IE={box} vagrant up
#
# Eg.       IE=XPIE6 vagrant up

boxes = {
    "XPIE6"     => "http://aka.ms/vagrant-xp-ie6",
    "XPIE8"     => "http://aka.ms/vagrant-xp-ie8",
    "VistaIE7"  => "http://aka.ms/vagrant-vista-ie7",
    "Win7IE8"   => "http://aka.ms/vagrant-win7-ie8",
    "Win7IE9"   => "http://aka.ms/vagrant-win7-ie9",

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deleteForm = function (id) {
  var form = document.deleteDiscountForm;
  form.discount.value = id;
  console.log('Deleting ' + id + ' ...');
  jQuery.post(window.location.href, jQuery(form).serialize());
}

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
for config in `find . -type f -name .vagrant`
do
  uuid=`cat "$config" | php -r 'echo json_decode(fgets(STDIN))->active->default;'`
  if VBoxManage showvminfo $uuid > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    if VBoxManage showvminfo $uuid --machinereadable | egrep -q 'VMState="running|paused|stuck"'; then
      VBoxManage controlvm $uuid poweroff
    fi
    VBoxManage unregistervm $uuid --delete
    rm -f "$config"

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<table xmlns="http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/schema/table.xsd">
    <meta>
        <description>Retrieves the Top Tracks, by tag, from Last.fm</description>
        <author>Anthony Sterling</author>
    </meta>
    <bindings>
        <select produces="JSON">
        <inputs>
            <key id="tag" as="tag" type="xs:string" paramType="query" required="true"/> 

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<table xmlns="http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/schema/table.xsd">
    <meta>
        <description>Retrieves the IP adddresses for tunlr.net's DNS servers</description>
        <author>Anthony Sterling</author>
    </meta>
    <bindings>
        <select produces="JSON">
        <execute><![CDATA[
            var results = y.query("select content from html where url=\"http://tunlr.net/get-started/\" and xpath='//span[@style = \"font-size: xx-large;\"]'").results.*;

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<?php
class VirginMediaStatus
{
    const
        SERVICE_ALL = 1,
        SERVICE_BROADBAND = 2,
        SERVICE_TV = 4,
        SERVICE_PHONE = 8;

    protected

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<?php
/**
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
 * "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 * LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
 * A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
 * OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
 * SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 * LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
 * DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY