Jure Cuhalev

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03 Jan, 2010

Migrating Prevoz.org to GeoDjango/postGIS

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

Today we finally switched Prevoz.org to new backend that allows us to start offering an option to add international carpools. It looks pretty boring at the end of the day:

In the process we all learned a lot about GIS systems, different GEO API solutions, Geonames and that it’s not a trivial problem.
For now I just [...]

30 Dec, 2009

Social media presence is not what your product needs

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

Today everyone blogs and we expect everyone to have their own blog, Twitter account, LinkedIn profile etc. Being present on as many services as we can. We can then measure measure engagement levels with one of the many different approaches (number of followers, sales, replies or even Klout rank).
What often don’t see is companies taking [...]

29 Dec, 2009

A confession of newage virtual schizophrenic

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: everyday life|ideas|Rant|Tech

Hi, I’m Jure and one of the things I do is to help people talk and work with their communities so they can improve their products or services. Often they want to outsource at least part of the talking to me, so I’m given a new online identity. The name is still the same, but [...]

24 Dec, 2009

On Foursquare and the likes

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

Assumptions of your ecosystem

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 [...]