Jure Cuhalev

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Micropresentations - [#reboot10 notes]

20 slides/20 second each slide. Organized by Guy Dickinson
 
Jan Krutisch - Hacking for fun and profit - mindmatters.de
 
There is only one problem with a web profession, when you only have one framework, all the problems look the same. His solution to this is to return back to basics [...]

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Eelco Rustenburg - Free the organization: The Secret sauce for distributed teams [#reboot10 notes] [abstract]
 
Most projects fail and have features that are never or rarely used.
 
What makes a project successful?
 
It’s people. The team makes a real difference in the project success. If you have a team of commited people that [...]

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Nick Black, Common Enterprise: Building a Business on Free Data, is involved with OpenStreet made and his company Cloudmade, that is trying to figure out if it’s possible to build business on top of it.
He starts with a point - nothing is free. Most free data has a cost, there are costs associated. [...]

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Marko Samastur - Easy deployment of site-extensions with a browser plugin.
Starting with Zemanta presentation, since it’s relevant for the presentation. Zemanta is a tool for contextual matching for blogging platforms and has to support a wide variety of platforms.
The limitations of XHR was a problem because of limitations of security-model that [...]

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Gorazd Golob - Firefox extensions and what we have to do with them.
Who are we

Developing local search engines
The most visited website in Slovenia
Present with Pogodak, local search sites in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedoni

Their servers are runinng 99.5% open source software. They are mostly Linux users in-house, so they use Firefox [...]