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IRL#4: Istanbul
Read more »: IRL#4: IstanbulLast month we again held our biannual in-person gathering of all Niteans, the IRL. As is customary, we meet somewhere warm for the winter edition of the event. This year we chose Istanbul, Turkey. A stunning city with millennia of heritage. We’ve gotten good at running IRLs so this one was by far the most…
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AWS EC2 gotchas
Read more »: AWS EC2 gotchasLately, AWS has been giving us a lot of headaches on the Easy Blog Networks project. It turns out only because resources (we pay per how many things we can do per second) are fiercely measured on AWS, but the underlying problems are happening on all EBN providers. So when we go over operations per…
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Recording Talks
Read more »: Recording TalksLast year on IRL#2, our biannual in-person get-together, we decided to start recording talks, so that those that could not attend in person would be able to watch them at some later point in time. Turns out, there is another great use case for these recordings: onboarding. Whenever a new person joins our team, these…
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Nitean Recognition
Read more »: Nitean Recognition“Bang a gong, get it on.” While the lyric is pulled from a modestly talented rocker in the 70s, it does hit a key entrepreneurial principle. Some companies and businesses ring a bell when something good happens or an achievement reached. At Niteo, we give kudos and +1s. The wall of happy Laszlo Bock, head…
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Conference hiatus is over
Read more »: Conference hiatus is overBack in the day when Niteo was still a consulting company I had to do a lot of traveling to find and do work. And to attend conferences. I loved to go to conferences. But being away so much, in boring hotel rooms and eating out every day took a toll on my (mental) health so…
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SaaStock, September 2017, Dublin
Read more »: SaaStock, September 2017, DublinThis was one of my first conferences outside the Internet Marketing industry and I mostly went to it to expand my horizons and see what successful SaaS companies are doing. Coming from a bootstrapped and ROI-focused background, what struck me as strange was the definition of success (or at least a path to success) for…
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Upgrading our Intranet to Plone 5
Read more »: Upgrading our Intranet to Plone 5While 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…
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Thailand was a blast!
Read more »: Thailand was a blast!It’s January — time for the “IRL”, our biannual in-person get-together. Summer IRLs happen in (around) Slovenia since that means short travel for the majority of the team plus it’s hard to find a more beautiful place in those early summer months. That said, come winter, Europe gets, well, uncomfortably cold. And most of us…
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How we work in NiteoWeb
Read more »: How we work in NiteoWebUpdate: see the latest version of this document on our Handbook. NiteoWeb is a distributed team of Web experts spread around the World. While we do rent office space in Ljubljana, Slovenia, most of us work remotely. Here’s a quick overview of how we go by our days. Communication Instant messaging is done through Slack on different…