24 Dec, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech
Foursquare is like Twitter, many things to many different people. What I would like to start using it is to passively track location of my friends and use that information to decide on my future plans.
Knowing for example that someone else is also at University and that it’s lunchtime and that I’m nearby, would allow [...]
07 Dec, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech
I’ve recently started helping out with limesurvey project, more specifically, their rewrite to CakePHP. One of the latest tickets I help with was to add optional table prefix, so you could have separate installations using the same database.
This is something you would never see in Django world, where everyone can afford as many databases as [...]
Hat tip to Wikia who gave it a few moments of thought and renamed captcha to blurry word. It still doesn’t tell you why it’s there, but now you can at least find it. Before that, it was just a nonsense term (for someone not in IT/web field).
03 Dec, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech| django
Debugging email sending in your Web application is always tricky as you need a working SMTP and you also need to watch out that you don’t accidently spam real users (if you’re working on a local copy of real database).
There is a neat one liner that acts as a “sink smtpd” server, meaning that it [...]
One of the big questions we’re always wondering is – is there a community in this small country? Aren’t things better in bigger cities?
There are two answers to that:
1. Sure. It’s better out there and we don’t stand a chance here.
2. or we can say – It depends. We just need to give our community [...]