Compojure is coming to be a really nice framework which is, together with the excellent Enlive templating/transformation library, enough to make this Lisp n00b take a shot at developing a toy project or two in a Lisp dialect. I struggled a bit today to do a file upload: it’s a relatively recent feature in the framework and although it’s pretty straightforward, it took me a while to get it up to speed. Here’s a really basic and primitive example which assumes you have clojure.contrib, Ring, Compojure and Enlive installed.

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On Tuesday, April 6th, an unknown person or group published the controversial list of participants in the Croatian War of Independence.

The list was kept secret by the Croatian government, claiming its publishing would be illegal. The infamous document contains the information on about half a million Croatian defenders. The number of participants in the war and their identity is a topic of great debate in Croatian politics, as allegedly many people on the list don’t belong there and weren’t actively participating in the defense of Croatia during the period between 1991 and 1995, but are using the rights and benefits given to the participants by the Croatian government. Although many politicians, including the Croatian president Ivo Josipović, as well as some of the participants in the war are requesting the list to be publicly available, the government refused to change the laws necessary for its “legal” publishing.

The news about the availability of the register was brought to attention by the Croatian media and spread quickly. The list isn’t complete, and lacks at least the data about the employees of the Croatian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Judging by the comments, the available data is generally correct, with minor errors. I personally tried a query or two for certain people I knew were participating in the war, and it seems to be credible.

The Croatian government announced it will prosecute the individuals responsible.

Blocked by Croatian ISPs?

Currently, the list isn’t accessible from any of the major Croatian internet service providers. This could be possible due to the site’s host throttling the probably enormous traffic from Croatia, but also due to Croatia’s ISPs blocking the access to the website. No official information about this is available at the time of writing.

The website is accessible from other countries, including Slovenia, and can be accessed from Croatia by using a proxy.

Update (17:20) The website www.registarbranitelja.com currently seems to be inaccessible globally. Some proxy sites do display the homepage from cache, but not the search page, probably due to its dynamic nature.

Update (18:15) The website’s hosting company, InvisiHosting LLC, said to the Croatian news portal Vecernji.hr they don’t have any plans of disclosing the identity of the author. They also said their servers are currently struggling with the high traffic and demand, and that it should be accessible soon. The website still isn’t accessible from Croatia, but it can be accessed through proxys and relays such as Tor.

The website is accessible through relays such as the Tor network

Marko Rakar in jail?

Not long after the list went public, someone mentioned the name of the famous Croatian blogger and politics consultant Marko Rakar – Mrak, claiming he was involved in the publishing of the list. Mrak is the editor of the collaborative blog Pollitika, one of the largest communities in Croatia, and was responsible for making the Croatian voters list publicly available due to certain cases of dead people voting in elections. He voluntarily went to the police as he assumed he’d probably be the first place they’d investigate, and by the recent news from his attorney, is being held in custody for unknown reasons.

Marko Rakar should be released from custody during the evening.

Update Mrak was released from custody. His home and office were searched by the police.

Paralelni rad na nekoliko različitih projekata¹ može biti zanimljiv, ali i frustrirajuć ukoliko ti projekti koriste različite konvencije za pisanje koda. Vim spašava stvar sa svojih nekoliko načina za korištenje paralelnih konfiguracija. Read the rest of this entry »

Od svog predstavljanja, Wolfram|Alpha ne prestaje privlačiti pozornost tehnološki osvještenijeg dijela populacije. Reakcije su mnoge, od izrazito pozitivnih do izrazito negativnih, a mnoge od njih pokazuju određeno nerazumijevanje koncepta same aplikacije. Read the rest of this entry »

U Zagrebu će se 23. siječnja 2008. održati drugi po redu BarCamp Zagreb, jedna u nizu sličnih malih IT i web konferencija koje se održavaju širom svijeta. Bangkok, Taipei, Kiev, Hong Kong, Washington, Los Angeles i Toronto samo neki su u nizu BarCampova, događaja temeljenih na jedinstvenoj organizaciji: BarCamp je besplatan, a “upad” se naplaćuje kroz aktivno sudjelovanje sudionika u područjima IT i web tehnologija, komunikacija i poduzetništva. Read the rest of this entry »

Umjetnik koji sustavno i uspješno prkosi svim glazbenim i poslovnim trendovima, Trent Reznor, ima razloga za slavlje. Trent je vođa one man benda Nine Inch Nails (NiN), čitateljima ovoga bloga poznatog barem po soundtracku za legendarni Quake 2. Njegov je album, Ghosts I-IV, najprodavaniji album na Amazonovoj MP3 trgovini za 2008. godinu. Read the rest of this entry »

Povodom nadolazećih blagdana, želim svim čitateljima ovog bloga sretan Božić i sve najbolje što mogu poželjeti u novoj 2009. godini. Hvala na čitanju, komentarima, linkovima, mailovima, tweetovima i ostalim metodama “komunikacije 2.0″!

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U proteklih sam nekoliko dana bio svjedokom dvaju vrlo važnih događaja na dva meni vrlo draga polja ljudskog djelovanja. Obje priče su dokaz da se uz dovoljno volje i truda čak i u Lijepoj našoj može napraviti puno, pa i u područjima koja široj hrvatskoj javnosti možda i nisu toliko interesantna. Read the rest of this entry »

GNOME, koji je uz KDE najpopularnije desktop okruženje za GNU/Linux, koristim gotovo od samih početaka ozbiljnijeg korištenja Linuxa. Nedavno sam još malo tweakao svoju konfiguraciju i složio vrlo ugodan desktop. Read the rest of this entry »

Nakon duljeg izbivanja, evo još jednog kraćeg linkdumpa prije nego uhvatim vremena završiti pokoji od postova koji već neko vrijeme stoje u folderu Drafts. Brakovi između ljudi ne-heteroseksualne orijentacije su već neko vrijeme tema političkih rasprava, no rijetko se tko bavio tehničkim dijelom problema — reprezentacijom takve vrste brakova u matematički formalnim sustavima, pogotovo bazama podataka. Read the rest of this entry »