When opening a PDF file in your browser you most probably are using mozilla's PDF.js component. Recently it started to fail reading large PDF files that are stored on Foswiki and require authentication: files seemed to be corrupt missing the bulk of their data.

FORMATLIST is Foswiki's Swiss army knife for manipulating text. It has many parameters and using it can be sometimes perplexing. I hope you find my notes useful.

Simplifying a Foswiki installation is a large ask. Multiple operating systems, extensions, Perl dependancies, libraries, web servers etc. How can we make it repeatable and easy to do. First step find a Linux distribution that provides ALL the required perl modules.

To make the Bridge plugin and associated application available to others, the files need to be packaged and submitted to the repository. The process is well supported by the BuildContrib build script. I struggled whether to package the plugin and the app separate or together. For the time being I will package them together, since the app completely depends on the plugin. If it turns out to be the wrong choice, it is easy enough to split them.

This post completes the application. It presents the development of the page that displays the hands, ready to practice and establishes a front page that supports the selection of hands with particular characteristics.