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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…
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Strings in Python 2 and Python 3
Read more »: Strings in Python 2 and Python 3The 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:…
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IRLs
Read more »: IRLsNiteoWeb is a remote-first team. While we do have a physical office in Ljubljana, few people go there regularly. Most of us prefer to work from home, from coffee shops or from the beach. Wherever and whenever we feel we are the most productive. While remote work certainly has its benefits, it does indeed have…
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Lessons Learned from PyMunich 2016
Read more »: Lessons Learned from PyMunich 2016At 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…
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A dev’s MacBook from scratch
Read more »: A dev’s MacBook from scratchI’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…
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Writing The Docs – Prague 2016
Read more »: Writing The Docs – Prague 2016On 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…
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WP Meetups
Read more »: WP MeetupsA 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…
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Lessons learned from EuroPython 2016
Read more »: Lessons learned from EuroPython 2016This 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…