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Visualizing Slovenian coalition agreement

Jure C. posted an article on - Jan 28, 2012, 5:22 pm
With the election of new Slovenian prime minister we also got formal release of a Coalition agreement. Since it’s a 72 page document, I was wondering what keywords would stand out. Here is the result: Pogodba za Slovenijo 2012 - 2015 - word cloud (top 80 words) While we’re at it, we can also t...
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WebCampLjubljana Autumn 2011

Jure C. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2011, 4:30 pm
Last weekend we finished latest addition to WebCampLjubljana series with another sold out event and with 160+ in attendance. We’ve had more than 20 talks and finished the day with a short series of lightning talks. For this event I tried not enforcing any specific language of the talks, which ...
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Rebooting the community

Jure C. posted an article on - Sep 12, 2011, 2:50 pm
This year Kiberpipa will be 10+ years old and its’ event lineup is incredible. Over 350 events a year involving various talks, meetups, screening and everything. During this time a bunch of new technologies showed and demand for jobs as well as our interest shifted and I/we stared creating bigger ...
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Reverse Job Fair Slovenia – can we do it?

Jure C. posted an article on - Jul 17, 2011, 2:08 pm
The word on the street is that there are more companies looking for employees than there are developers and IT geeks on the market. This means that the market balance is skewed and we need a reverse job fair. In reverse job fair, the job seekers are presenting their projects and potential employers...
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Theme Hybrid is a better WordPress theme framework

Jure C. posted an article on - May 1, 2011, 4:12 pm
I recently had a chance to work on a number of WordPress related projects and I was pleasantly surprised as the platform had matured in every possible way since the early 2.x releases. Today I just wanted to post a brief note to people who are still using random WordPress templates to base their ...
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Jure C. posted an article on - Feb 27, 2011, 11:12 am
In my free time, I’m an Apple geek. This means that new OS X users come to me and ask me about essential apps for their shiny new Mac. After explaining to them that there is Microsoft Office for Mac and that they should chat using Adium, I try to sell them on idea of App launcher. Currently my too...
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MobileCamp:Android – Ljubljana

Jure C. posted an article on - Feb 23, 2011, 4:34 pm
If you’ve somehow missed it, we’re doing a MobileCamp targeted towards people who are involved with android (dev’s, marketers, etc.) – on 5th of March in Ljubljana. Do join us. Related posts:MobileCamp Ljubljana in late March! Group Roller Blading in Ljubljana (Ljubljana Nightskate) Geeky e...
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OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials book review

Jure C. posted an article on - Dec 18, 2010, 5:13 pm
Guys at Packt Publishing were kind enough to send me a copy of their OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials book by Ruben Olsen to review, as I’ve written about OmniGraffle a couple of times and use it regularly. While the book claims that it’s intended audience is everyone from novice to a pro....
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DjangoCampLjubljana – the day after

Jure C. posted an article on - Dec 12, 2010, 1:06 pm
DjangoCampLjubljana was more of a micro-barcamp compared to 100+ attendees that we did before. It was also the first camp where more people showed up then signed up for tickets. So from initial 12 we ended up with about 16 participants. This turned out to be about the best size for such a group, so ...
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Where not to illegally park in Ljubljana

Jure C. posted an article on - Dec 5, 2010, 6:19 pm
Where in Ljubljana it’s most likely that your car will be towed away? In short: city centre, beginning of Vi? and around Metelkova. Click for interactive version or alternative visualization Click for interactive version Source of this data is page from Javni Holding Ljubljana that publishes ...
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DjangoCamp Ljubljana, lets do it!

Jure C. posted an article on - Nov 7, 2010, 4:16 pm
Getting back into Camp spirit, we (as in Gašper Ž. and I) thought about doing something for our growing Django community. Since a lot of things that we built runs on Django it feels just right. What: Django (python framework thingie) community driven unconference for people that are already using...
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How to be a community witch

Jure C. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2010, 8:34 am
Reading Pratchett’s latest novel – I Shall Wear Midnight (a Tiffany Aching story), I was reminded that witching is mostly a matter of stopping to think and look around and observe what people are actually doing. Witches in his stories call this headology – headology, a sort of folk-psychology ...
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H5C3 meetup

Jure C. posted an article on - Oct 4, 2010, 8:51 am
Klemen has done excellent job organizing Slovenian HTML5 and CSS3 meetup that’s going to happen on 29th of October in Ljubljana, Slovenia. You should attend if you’re into these kind of technologies Related posts:Mulled Wine Meetup – Ljubljana Christmas Lights Bloggers Delight meetup – ...
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Mood tags of your app

Jure C. posted an article on - Aug 25, 2010, 3:26 pm
While submitting our carpooling app into Nokia OVI store, they asked something interesting: what is the mood of your app? The question seems promising, but they make it hard to respond with so many choices. Take a look at the list and consider the mood of the page you’re building: Related posts...
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On spreading knowledge

Jure C. posted an article on - May 22, 2010, 6:55 pm
How far are you willing to go to spread your knowledge and make world easier for people to use? Seen on a wall in Berlin. Posted URL – http://addresstrick.tk/ is actually a really useful one if you’re a Windows user. No related posts.
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We've built the network: now where do we get the content?

Jure C. posted an article on - May 15, 2010, 1:54 pm
Wireless Community Weekend 2010 at Berlin is a conference of different wireless networks around Europe. One of the sessions we held was on what kind of services people are running on their networks and what should be develop (as a community) next to enrich our infrastructure. We’ve built the netw...
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Self organizing travel information in the wake of volcanic ash cloud

Jure C. posted an article on - Apr 17, 2010, 1:49 pm
I’m at Campus Party EU in Madrid this week and while it was a decent event, the part that it’s interesting is to see how community of over 200 international participants organize themselves as most of the flights back are canceled. As almost here is versed in IT technologies it is safe to say th...
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Positioning of radio buttons

Jure C. posted an article on - Apr 4, 2010, 5:31 am
Usability of 3rd party modules is often interesting and you can see evolution of the product through the interface. Breezing Forms is not exception to this, as it uses interesting formation of  radio buttons to indicate validation options. Trick question: what is current setting? Yep, it’s None...
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Visualizing budget of Slovenia for 2010

Jure C. posted an article on - Mar 23, 2010, 6:03 am
Slovenian budget is a 12 billion euro monster that most citizens don’t understand or even have remote idea how it’s structured and where does their money go. As it turns out, people are just not good at taking abstract numbers to go into billions and understanding proportions and what it means t...
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Showing a story of Kiberpipa's intranet opensource project

Jure C. posted an article on - Mar 15, 2010, 4:15 am
Kiberpipa is a large organization with lots of volunteers. This means that whatever you do, you’ll have organizational problems and you’ll see technology as a way to solve them. To a certain degree of course. A few years ago Boštjan and I saw this as an opportunity to reinvent the wheel and wr...
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Visualizing Slovenian IT tax spending

Jure C. posted an article on - Mar 12, 2010, 3:25 am
My latest released project is focusing on Visualizing Slovenian IT tax spending (139 million euros), the idea here is to take otherwise meaningless numbers and display them visually in a way that tells a story of who is spending how much and on what. The data set comes directly from the government i...
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OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – How to Create A Viral YouTube Video

Jure C. posted an article on - Mar 4, 2010, 2:45 am
OK Go recently released video for their song This Too Shall Pass, of their new album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, and it shows that they really understand viral web video and that their target demographic consumes their content on YouTube and Facebook. First, check out their video, if you haven&...
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MobileCamp Ljubljana in late March!

Jure C. posted an article on - Feb 26, 2010, 5:03 am
Who needs to sleep when you’re having so much with the BarCamp like events, right? Building upon this idea we’ve announcing MobileCamp Ljubljana, that’s going to take place on 27th of March 2010 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. I’m excited about this MobileCamp for ...
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RealTime WebCamp reflections

Jure C. posted an article on - Feb 25, 2010, 6:42 am
We can say once again that our last event, RealTime WebCampLjubljana, was a great success. We didn’t run out of coffee, there was enough electricity and WiFi as well as a great mix of people and the quality of talks and discussions was astonishing. There are a few things that we did differently t...
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