Category: Tech

While we haven’t done any Plone consulting (well, *any* consulting to be exact) in over 3 years, we still use Plone internally, every single day. It was about time our Intranet got some love, so I put on my disco pants, poured some of Belgium’s finest and got to work. Our installation was an old Plone 4.1 […]

The goal of this post is to show you how to properly use encode and decode in python 2 and in python 3. This post will be based on small examples that will (hopefully) make you better understand how strings work in python 2 and python 3. A bit of background on unicode and UTF-8: […]

At the end of October there was a Python conference in Munich (PyMunich). For a regional conference it was quite big in my opinion. There were 3 tracks and more then 40 speakers. As always I won’t cover all the talks just the ones that I found the most interesting and educational. After all this […]

I’ve been a long time Apple user. I hate a lot about the company’s policy and how they treat their power users, but I love the tight integration between their software and hardware. Another thing to love is their migration tools. You buy new hardware, you click Restore from backup and you are done. Safari […]

On September 19th and 20th Write the Docs Meeting took place in Prague. This year I had the pleasure to attend. More than 250 people came which is about 40% more compared to last year.  On my surprise the majority of the people were actual tech writers or ‘documentarians’ as they called themselves (well there […]

A few months back I noticed we actually have regular WordPress Meetups in Ljubljana, our base town. We attended one in April, where David talked about theming and Emanuel about bringing WordPress into the Public Sector. On the second one, in June, we were active participants: Janez and myself delivered a talk titled Lessons learned running 25k WordPress blogs […]

This was my first EuroPython conference and I had high expectations because I heard a lot of good things about it. I must say that overall it didn’t let me down. I learned several new things and met a lot of new people. So lets dive straight into the most important lessons. On Tuesday I […]

TL;DR: Production-level Plone on free-tier Heroku: https://github.com/niteoweb/heroku-buildpack-plone First, a bit of history: it was year 2006 and I was realizing that I was not made to be an academic. I made my first strides into entrepreneurship and being in IT, the first logical step was to create a few websites and try to get paid […]

Gocept, a company based in Halle (Saale), Germany, organized a Pyramid sprint, which lasted from 15th to 17th August 2013. The sprint took place at their headquarters which, by the way, has a lovely garden perfectly suited for relaxation, eating, drinking and development (not necessarily in that order!). A bunch of NiteoWeb former and present […]

A week or so ago I started developing an experimental Python package for one of our projects. At some point I realized that it would be convenient to automatically execute some additional initialization code during the package installation process (i.e. when “python setup.py install” is run). This can be achived by subclassing the setuptools.command.install class […]