Jure Cuhalev

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04 Dec, 2009

Captcha is such an ugly word

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech|usability

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

Python SMTP sink server

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: django|Tech

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 [...]

22 Nov, 2009

Building a PPA for Ubuntu

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

Ubuntu introduced something called Personal Package Archive, which is essentially just a .deb archive, built using Ubuntu’s build machine. You read that right, if you want to offer your own customized ubuntu packages for some reason (I wanted to build nightly .deb’s), you just have to upload your source packages to your PPA and Ubuntu [...]

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26 Oct, 2009

Arrr, Slovenia, the land of pirates!

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Rant|Tech

After a very sad performance of Slovenian quasi Pirate Party last week, where we could see that they have no idea how copyright works, we now have even more evidence that Slovenia is a land of pirates that have no respect for other people’s intellectual work.
@skatey and @Zealoth point out to a blunt copyright infringement [...]