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2020: A Year In Review
2021-01-11
...wherein I try to make sense of the mess that was 2020. Pandemics, earthquakes, music, books & plans for the future that may not be.
Living and Coding In Times of Crises
2020-03-28
...wherein I try to convince myself that everything will be alright.
Book Review: “How to Read a Book”
2020-01-09
I don't really review the books I read, but I decided to write a short blurb about the oft-recommended “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading” by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren.
Developing Web Services in Rust: my talk at the Zagreb Rust Meetup
2019-03-08
Links to slides and code examples from my talk on building web services in Rust.
Shoving Your Application Code Into the Web Server: my talk at WebCamp Zagreb 2018
2018-10-11
In 2018, I gave a talk on how to use Lua, nginx, and OpenResty as a full-blown asynchronous programming environment.
Miscellaneous Org Mode Tips & Tricks
2017-10-20
Google Calendar export, project management & Gantt charts with TaskJuggler, spacemacs' org-agenda transient state.
We Made a Conference (For Fun and No Profit)
2017-10-14
A short write-up on the organizational aspects of the WebCamp Zagreb 2017 conference, where I coordinated the sponsorship aspect of the story.
Music I've Listened To - Week of March 7th
2016-03-12
I try to listen to a lot of fresh, interesting music. Here's a choice of 5 records that have especially caught my interest during the last week.
Impressions from WebCamp Ljubljana 2015
2015-03-17
Folks from Zagreb go on a field trip & visit WebCamp Ljubljana!
Developing and Deploying ASP.NET MVC Applications On Ubuntu Linux with Mono, nginx and MySQL
2011-03-21
A short guide to running Microsoft's web stack on Linux, and connecting it to a MySQL database.
F#: Funkcijsko programiranje za .NET (WebUG, studeni 2010.)
2010-10-19
Materijali s predavanja o F#-u.
File upload in Clojure & Compojure
2010-09-02
How to handle multipart HTTP POST equests in compojure.
(G)Vim: postavljanje opcija u ovisnosti o direktoriju
2010-02-25
Učitavanje vim konfiguracije ovisno o direktoriju.
Zašto Wolfram|Alpha neće ubiti Google i zašto to nije bitno
2009-05-21
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.
Creative Commons knjige o informatici i programiranju
2008-08-18
Dobre, besplatne, otvorene knjige o IT-ju.
Zašto neki developeri misle da su pametniji od drugih
2008-07-31
Relativno sam nedavno na Redditu pronašao interesantan dokument pod nazivom Programmer Competency Matrix. Par dana nakon toga sam se ponovno sjetio dotičnog i, zaboravivši link, krenuo u potragu na Googleu.
Open source softver za matematiku i prirodne znanosti
2008-07-22
Budući da je open source softver vrlo raširen u znanosti (zapravo, tamo je sve i počelo), bilo bi neobično da ne postoje besplatne, otvorene alternative koje će biti i više nego dovoljne prosječnom studentu i entuzijastu, a sigurno će zadovoljiti i potrebe nekih od zahtjevnijih korisnika.
Programiranje i informatika – Je li fakultet potreban?
2008-07-01
U posljednje vrijeme po raznim forumima relativno često naletim na thread gdje mladi (budući) developeri razmišljaju o odabiru srednje škole ili fakulteta. S obzirom da nerijetko dobivam takva pitanja od svojih poznanika, a u sličnoj situaciji sam nedavno bio i sam, imao sam prilike dugo i intenzivno razmišljati o ovoj temi.