Archive for the 'Web' Category

Wear sunscreen

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

The other day I was driving around Ljubljana with my friend Bostjan when the song below came up on the radio. “Just listen to this,” said Bostjan. And I did. And now I can’t get it out of my head.

The song was a big hit in 1999, somewhat before I was interested in this kind […]

Leah Culver is HOT!

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

I’m sure some of you remember the girl who tried to buy her MacBook Pro by selling the space on the back of the screen for 50$/square inch. A genius idea!

Well, her name is Leah Culver and she is the lead developer behind Kevin Rose’s latest startup Pownce. She’s using Django for Pownce’s backend and […]

A curse of engineering mind

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

There’s a lot of useful, nicely designed, user proven, tested, stable, time saving, free or cheap services, programs, scripts, webapps and things alike in this world. And I could be using any one of them to get the job done well, effortlessly and on time.
And yet, for every useful, nicely designed, stable, free or cheap […]

Keeping up

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

As a user and developer of a range of open source applications and frameworks there are issues I and others have to face on daily basis. Badly designed GUI, bad exception handling, instability, a huge pile of dependencies, bugs that call them selfs features, slow and inaccurate operation, unreadable fonts, huge memory leaks, outdated documentation, […]

Some things…

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

… are just damn funny! :)
Like this Henry’s Python Programming Guide - Part 1 from Henry the Adequate.
It made me laugh for hours! :)

When it rains…

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

… life gets wonderful! :)
It’s unbelievable how can an email starting with:
Dear Applicant,
Congratulations! This email is being sent to inform you that your
application was accepted to take part in the Summer of Code.
make a rainy day one of the nicest days of the year! :)
Yes, my application for creating a “Full history for Django” backend […]