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It’s easy to get stuck in a filter bubble of technologies that we use to solve our problems. Good conference will challenge your view on how you solve problems and present novel concepts. Mloc.js (million lines of JavaScript) was such a conference. Main idea behind the talks was how to manage projects with such a […]
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Organising a conference is an activity that should count as an extreme working environment. It’s stressful and it requires good organizing skills of a wide range of people. If you don’t have a professional manager running it, you end up micromanaging your team. You’re also the only one that has all the information, that is […]
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It’s popular today to work in Open Data, Big Data or similar space. It feels just like the times of Web 2.0 mashups, but instead of simple Google Maps based tools we’re now creating powerful visualisations that often feel like an end by itself. In a way, I expected OKCon, OpenKnowledge Foundation’s conference, to be […]
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This year Kiberpipa will be 10+ years old and its’ event lineup is incredible. Over 350 events a year involving various talks, meetups, screening and everything. During this time a bunch of new technologies showed and demand for jobs as well as our interest shifted and I/we stared creating bigger and more exclusive events (as […]
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Reading Pratchett’s latest novel – I Shall Wear Midnight (a Tiffany Aching story), I was reminded that witching is mostly a matter of stopping to think and look around and observe what people are actually doing. Witches in his stories call this headology – headology, a sort of folk-psychology which can be summed up as […]
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While submitting our carpooling app into Nokia OVI store, they asked something interesting: what is the mood of your app? The question seems promising, but they make it hard to respond with so many choices. Take a look at the list and consider the mood of the page you’re building:
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How far are you willing to go to spread your knowledge and make world easier for people to use? Seen on a wall in Berlin. Posted URL – http://addresstrick.tk/ is actually a really useful one if you’re a Windows user.
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I’m at Campus Party EU in Madrid this week and while it was a decent event, the part that it’s interesting is to see how community of over 200 international participants organize themselves as most of the flights back are canceled. As almost here is versed in IT technologies it is safe to say that […]
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Usability of 3rd party modules is often interesting and you can see evolution of the product through the interface. Breezing Forms is not exception to this, as it uses interesting formation of radio buttons to indicate validation options. Trick question: what is current setting? Yep, it’s None. Not Library that it seems from the first […]
Slovenian budget is a 12 billion euro monster that most citizens don’t understand or even have remote idea how it’s structured and where does their money go. As it turns out, people are just not good at taking abstract numbers to go into billions and understanding proportions and what it means to spend 50 million […]