Getting back in the Saddle

I have recently got back in to Cycling and have been replacing sitting in traffic for 45mins with sitting on a saddle for 60mins.  The way I look at it I should save some cash, loose some weight and it certainly puts me in a better mood for the day.

Some great resources for planning routes are at : http://www.betterbybike.info/cycle-maps.  Firstly, order or print the maps as they are fantastic and free! secondly, the cycle trip planner is a great way to get bike friendly routes planned quickly!

Have fun and ride safe!!

PL/SQL generate PDFs

Something I have been meaning to play about for quite a while is the use of a number of free PL/SQL libaries for creating PDF documents on the fly in PL/SQL code.  Some the libraries out there are :

http://reseau.erasme.org/PL-FPDF,1337
http://technology.amis.nl/blog/8650/as_pdf-generating-a-pdf-document-with-some-plsql

For completeness, there is a paid libary http://plpdf.com/ but as it costs I'm not going to play with it for the moment.

I'm going to have a bit of a play with the end result of storing the resulting PDF as a BLOB in a table for use in a document library.

Update to follow!