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WordPress Themes are like good computer games – easy to learn, but difficult to master (Bushnell’s Law). Unless you start writing them from scratch, you don’t appreciate good structure. WordPress Template Hierarchy diagram displays all the possibilities we have: While it explains, how things are working, it also shows how many different templates we need to […]
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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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Sometimes people look back at certain points in time and say – we were too early. When we started doing work on OpenData in Slovenia in 2010, there was interest but no critical mess yet (just a handful of people showed up for meetup). But this time, it went much better. ~25 people showed up, despite […]
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If you are Web site owner and would like to fix this for your site, repackage the Ubuntu font under a different name and serve it from your site. You’ll lose Google’s CDN, but your OS X users will be happier. For about a year, a few sites would always display broken Š character on […]
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A few years after starting to work with Open Data, I’m still amazed by Python Pandas. I’m still very much a novice, I’ve got enough experience that I’m dangerous. I also don’t get enough opportunities to work it. So when Nino invited me to do a workshop about Pandas at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Ljubljana, […]
We did it – 350+ happy web people enjoying a day together, talking about the things they are passionate about. I’m sure it was mostly not about “web”, but it was as good excuse as any to get together. It took about 25 people in the end to make it happen and I’m thankful to […]
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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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About a decade ago, I’ve discovered that I have to reinvent myself every 2 – 3 years to keep up with the speed of technology. During that time I’ve managed to learn a lot of new languages and frameworks. But I also failed at a lot of them. Talking to newcomers to the field and […]
MozFest was huge (1500+ attendees), spanned 9 floors and had at least 16 concurrent tracks running at any given time. That’s without all the additional community areas showing their projects and the future of open society. Based on a number of other similar events I attended and helped organised in the past (BarCamps, CCC) here […]
Learning Analytics are targeted at administrations that is trying to understand how teachers and students are interacting with the tools and processes inside the educational system. (This blog post is just a collection of my personal notes and extra thoughts and is not something that a specific person said inside a discussion and that I probably […]