Stories, lessons, and updates from the team at Niteo — two decades of bootstrapped SaaS.https://niteo.co/https://niteo.co/blog/irl17/https://niteo.co/blog/irl17/The year on the calendar turned to 2026. Time for New Year’s resolutions and improving IRL 17 in Taipei, Taiwan.Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTGeneralAmon Stopinšekhttps://niteo.co/blog/wordpress-tailwind-theme/https://niteo.co/blog/wordpress-tailwind-theme/Tawind is a WordPress theme that uses Tailwind CSS. It only loads the required CSS on each page, making it extremely fast.Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTTechDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/subdomain-vs-subfolder/https://niteo.co/blog/subdomain-vs-subfolder/So, should you have your blog on a subdomain or a subfolder? If there were no technical limitations, the answer would’ve always been a subfolder. But given...Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTTechDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/cloudflare-workers-proxy-wordpress-blog/https://niteo.co/blog/cloudflare-workers-proxy-wordpress-blog/TL;DR: If you have a WordPress blog deployed on a subdomain of your main website, and you want to show it under `/blog` for SEO purposes, use Cloudflare...Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTTechDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/devopsdays-ljubljana-2025/https://niteo.co/blog/devopsdays-ljubljana-2025/I recently had the chance to go to my first tech conference, DevOpsDays in Ljubljana. Since I was still new to DevOps, I wasn’t sure how much I would...Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTConferencesMaja Rovtarhttps://niteo.co/blog/from-frustration-to-power-what-we-learned-at-nixcademy/https://niteo.co/blog/from-frustration-to-power-what-we-learned-at-nixcademy/We recently completed two days of Nixcademy training, exploring the powerful yet complex Nix and NixOS ecosystem. After five years of experience, the course still offered valuable insights—especially about overlays and fixed-point recursion—that turn frustration into empowerment. If you're working with Nix or planning to, this course can save you months of struggle.Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTGeneralGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/sprint-season-is-open/https://niteo.co/blog/sprint-season-is-open/I used to go to a ton of sprints.Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl15-kranjska-gora/https://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl15-kranjska-gora/Our 15th In-Real-Life meetup is in the books! Hard to believe our first IRL was back in 2016 in Croatia. Eight years and countless memories later, we...Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTGeneralDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/nixcon-2024-berlin/https://niteo.co/blog/nixcon-2024-berlin/Ever since the day NixCon 2024 dates were published, I was sad I was not going to be able to make it due to some personal stuff taking place that week. But...Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/pycon-jp-2024/https://niteo.co/blog/pycon-jp-2024/Another year, another fantastic PyCon Japan! This year’s conference in Tokyo was filled with insightful talks, interesting conversations, and a welcoming...Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTConferencesBjørnar Myrheimhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl13-lanzarote/https://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl13-lanzarote/For the 13th IRL edition, we gathered at our Niteo house in Lanzarote. Nejc had already hosted a few Ocean sprints at the house, so everything ran...Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTGeneralAmon Stopinšekhttps://niteo.co/blog/europython-2023/https://niteo.co/blog/europython-2023/EuroPython in 2018 was my first international conference. After five years, I eagerly joined another EuroPython.Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTConferencesAmon Stopinšekhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteo-summer-irl-meetup-in-ljubljana/https://niteo.co/blog/niteo-summer-irl-meetup-in-ljubljana/Our summer In-Real-Life meetup was held in Ljubljana, in the heart of Slovenia. The first things you see as you approach it are castles, numerous parks, and...Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTGeneralMarta Kozakhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl11-manila/https://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl11-manila/Mabuhay! It’s winter 2023 and time for our in-real-life meetup. It's our 11th IRL, but this will be my first time joining one. Because of the COVID...Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTGeneralMarta Kozakhttps://niteo.co/blog/fast-development-on-nixos/https://niteo.co/blog/fast-development-on-nixos/We've been using NixOS for a few years, and it has proven to be a stable and reliable OS. More importantly, it's declarative and reproducible, which is one...Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTTechGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/pycon-jp-2022/https://niteo.co/blog/pycon-jp-2022/It’s good to be back! The past two PyCons in Japan have been online, so it was nice to be back in person where you could actually enjoy the little things in...Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTConferencesBjørnar Myrheimhttps://niteo.co/blog/nixcon-paris-2022/https://niteo.co/blog/nixcon-paris-2022/After three years, we finally got a proper IRL NixCon. Since the Nix community is not the biggest one, it was nice to talk about Nix for three days (two at...Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMTConferencesGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/indispensable-pytest-plugins/https://niteo.co/blog/indispensable-pytest-plugins/I’ve been babbling on about testing for a decade now. Here’s a quick list of pytest plugins I use in most of my Python projects:Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl10/https://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl10/Man… I can’t believe it has been two and a half years since I was abroad. The last time was actually IRL#8 in Bangkok, Thailand. A global pandemic and...Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTGeneralBjørnar Myrheimhttps://niteo.co/blog/pycon-it-2022/https://niteo.co/blog/pycon-it-2022/At the beginning of the month, I made a quick road trip down to Florence for this year's edition of PyCon Italia. I try to never miss a chance for a...Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/oceansprint-2022/https://niteo.co/blog/oceansprint-2022/The mind has not yet completely recovered from all the brain explosions that happened during OceanSprint 2021, and I was already planning the next one. I've...Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/failed-saas-project/https://niteo.co/blog/failed-saas-project/Three months after we closed the sale of WooCart, our project that was gonna “make it big”, I am ready to review the full financial consequences of our failure: $700k loss.Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 GMTTechDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants/https://niteo.co/blog/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants/Whether we know it or not, we build things based on the work done before us. This is true in every aspect of life, and programming is no different.Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMTTechGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/nix-build-on-a-diet/https://niteo.co/blog/nix-build-on-a-diet/At Niteo, we are using `nix-shell` to build isolated development and production environments. We deploy production as a Docker image on Heroku. Recently,...Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irlfml/https://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irlfml/We were really, really hoping we’d be able to meet up in January for a proper all-company IRL meetup after two years. Unfortunately, it was (again) not...Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTGeneralDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/sprints-are-back/https://niteo.co/blog/sprints-are-back/Back in early 2010's, "sprints" were how I lived. Week-long events, in random places around the World, hacking on open source. From offices in European...Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMTPeopleOpsNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/founder-summit-in-mexico-city/https://niteo.co/blog/founder-summit-in-mexico-city/I knew I missed conferences. But I did not fully understand how much.Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/attending-microconf-europe-21-in-dubrovnik/https://niteo.co/blog/attending-microconf-europe-21-in-dubrovnik/MicroConf Europe in 2019 was the second to last conference I attended before COVID-19 struck. This year MicroConf returned to Dubrovnik. And it's an...Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTConferencesDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/deploying-100-servers-with-github-actions/https://niteo.co/blog/deploying-100-servers-with-github-actions/Last year we decided to replace our Ubuntu servers with NixOS. We were still on Ubuntu 14.04, so we also had to upgrade all the services and tools,...Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTTechGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/concurrency-in-go/https://niteo.co/blog/concurrency-in-go/Concurrency in Go is an extensive topic, and we won't cover all the things in this post. There are tons of articles and several books that cover concurrency...Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTTechGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/why-were-building-a-house-in-the-middle-of-the-ocean/https://niteo.co/blog/why-were-building-a-house-in-the-middle-of-the-ocean/Let's get the clickbaiting out of the way first: we're not technically building a house, we're renovating an existing villa. To make it more suitable for...Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMTGeneralNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl9/https://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl9/After a year and a half, Niteo finally organized our bi-annual In-Real-Life meetup. The third time is the charm! Unfortunately, we only managed to do it for...Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMTGeneralDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/postmortems/https://niteo.co/blog/postmortems/Earlier this year, on one of our half-yearly IRL's, we had a discussion about whether or not we should proceed with a massive upgrade...Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMTGeneralBjørnar Myrheimhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl-yarly/https://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl-yarly/After our first virtual IRL in July-2020, it's time for our first remote-first IRL. Which means Niteans were given options to plan and decide a location...Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTGeneralNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/lowering-h12-errors-on-heroku/https://niteo.co/blog/lowering-h12-errors-on-heroku/This post will briefly discuss H12 errors on Heroku, more commonly known as request timeouts, how we tackled them, and how we fixed them.Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMTTechGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/staging-like-its-2020/https://niteo.co/blog/staging-like-its-2020/Last year, we wrote a blog post on how we use Heroku's Review Apps to create staging apps for every Pull Request submitted to a project's repository. These...Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl-orly/https://niteo.co/blog/niteo-irl-orly/As a remote-first company, Niteo invests in doing bi-annual IRLs (In Real Life) meetups to get everyone in the same time and space. Spending time with...Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMTGeneralMarbe Ralozohttps://niteo.co/blog/project-isolation-beyond-requirements-txt/https://niteo.co/blog/project-isolation-beyond-requirements-txt/I've been a Python dev for almost 15 years now and I've recently completely overhauled how I keep my development tools and dependencies in check. I'm so...Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteo-covid-19-response/https://niteo.co/blog/niteo-covid-19-response/This was supposed to be an internal memo sent to my fellow coworkers, but I decided to publish it here on our blog, to encourage other businesses to take...Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTPeopleOpsNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/astronomer-psychologist-and-mit-professor-went-to-a-design-conference/https://niteo.co/blog/astronomer-psychologist-and-mit-professor-went-to-a-design-conference/The title could sound like the beginning of some joke, but the modern design field attracts more and more professionals that don’t do that much drawing but...Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTConferencesEvgenia Mucklowhttps://niteo.co/blog/keeping-your-head-above-water-by-managing-your-tasks-and-time/https://niteo.co/blog/keeping-your-head-above-water-by-managing-your-tasks-and-time/In this blog post, I'll write a little bit about the tools and methods I used to manage the chaos that used to be my workday.Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMTGeneralBjørnar Myrheimhttps://niteo.co/blog/irl-8-bangkok/https://niteo.co/blog/irl-8-bangkok/Wohooo! It's 2020 and time for our first IRL of the year Decade. We decided on Bangkok (known as Krung Thep in Thai) as the IRL location since it has...Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTGeneralNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/nixcon-2019/https://niteo.co/blog/nixcon-2019/It's been a few years since I've been to a smaller conference and I made the right choice to visit NixCon 2019. It was held in a really nice coworking space...Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMTTechGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/reading-nix-expressions/https://niteo.co/blog/reading-nix-expressions/These are my notes from the `Reading Nix expressions` talk in NixCon 2019.Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMTTechGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/frontend-week-in-budapest/https://niteo.co/blog/frontend-week-in-budapest/Last week I attended my first two frontend conferences - CSSConf & JSConf Budapest 2019.Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMTConferencesAmon Stopinšekhttps://niteo.co/blog/pycon-jp-2019/https://niteo.co/blog/pycon-jp-2019/I’ve been to many conferences in my life, but this was my first time attending a PyCon.Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMTConferencesBjørnar Myrheimhttps://niteo.co/blog/irl7-ljubljana/https://niteo.co/blog/irl7-ljubljana/It's mid-year and it was time for In-Real-Life meetup in the hometown of Niteo, Ljubljana.Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMTGeneralDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/elm-a-frontend-story-that-a-backend-dev-can-love/https://niteo.co/blog/elm-a-frontend-story-that-a-backend-dev-can-love/I’ve been doing Web development for about 15 years now. The first few years were mostly tinkering with PHP and doing basic changes via the browser using Plone.Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/pycon-thailand-2019/https://niteo.co/blog/pycon-thailand-2019/PyCon Thailand 2019 was my first ever conference, my first foreign trip, and my first chance to give a talk — friendly people, perfect venue, energetic crowd, and an incredible, unforgettable experience overall.Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/kubecon-2019/https://niteo.co/blog/kubecon-2019/This was my first time at a KubeCon conference. This year it was held in Barcelona with over 7.5k attendees! The conference was held at Gran Via which is a...Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMTConferencesGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/robust-rest-apis-with-pyramid/https://niteo.co/blog/robust-rest-apis-with-pyramid/It's almost a year since we started working on a new project: WooCart. Up until that point, all our projects were "backend-monoliths", i.e. the backend...Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/the-many-faces-of-ai-powered-marketing/https://niteo.co/blog/the-many-faces-of-ai-powered-marketing/This month I went to DigiMarCon in New York. I expected it to be a much bigger conference with more people, more talks to choose from and actual workshops....Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTMarketingNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/paypal-ban-after-12-years/https://niteo.co/blog/paypal-ban-after-12-years/Update: PayPal restored our account, and they were as descriptive as when banning us. This was after a call and tweet confirming the "final decision". We're...Thu, 09 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTGeneralDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/why-everyone-at-niteo-loves-checklists/https://niteo.co/blog/why-everyone-at-niteo-loves-checklists/At Niteo we love using checklists. We think they're great because they:Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMTTechDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/why-we-invested-in-earnest-capital/https://niteo.co/blog/why-we-invested-in-earnest-capital/I always had a vision for Niteo to grow into a factory of sane startups. A combination of internal spin-offs, an accelerator, and a VC fund. But with the...Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/staging-like-its-2019/https://niteo.co/blog/staging-like-its-2019/Here at Niteo we’ve been delivering continuously since about 2011. We started with home-grown fabric scrips that used cron to run `svn update &&...Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/design-technology-cool-shit/https://niteo.co/blog/design-technology-cool-shit/Last week I traveled to Amsterdam to attend FITC conference 2019. I got inspired both by the city and the conference, and want to share some themes I...Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMTConferencesEvgenia Mucklowhttps://niteo.co/blog/irl6-marrakesh/https://niteo.co/blog/irl6-marrakesh/It was that time of the year again, to spend a full week of in-person time with fellow Niteans in an amazing city!Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/export-plone-to-pdfs/https://niteo.co/blog/export-plone-to-pdfs/Since many years ago, we've had a private installation of Plone in Niteo that we call Intra. Short for “intranet”. It is meant to hold our company-wide,...Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/four-meetups-in-three-days/https://niteo.co/blog/four-meetups-in-three-days/This past week has been quite eventful for me! On Monday, I was still in Lanzarote, enjoying the summer-like weather and beautifully glassy swell from the...Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/a-month-of-travel/https://niteo.co/blog/a-month-of-travel/The last couple of weeks I've had another bout of traveling to conferences. I've been lucky this time: all three events were absolutely amazing! First I...Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/world-usability-congress-2018/https://niteo.co/blog/world-usability-congress-2018/In the middle of October, I went to Graz to attend World Usability Congress. This conference first started 10 years ago and even though it’s not a huge one...Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMTConferencesEvgenia Mucklowhttps://niteo.co/blog/the-niteo-handbook-update-less-bloat-more-information/https://niteo.co/blog/the-niteo-handbook-update-less-bloat-more-information/Documentation naturally grows with the company. But if you’re not careful it can quickly become bloated and unnecessary detailed. This happened to us this...Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMTGeneralDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/irl5-ljubljana/https://niteo.co/blog/irl5-ljubljana/Summer is a great time to be in central Europe because of long days and good weather (when it's not scorching hot). It is one of the reasons why we hold our...Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTGeneralDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/gopherconuk/https://niteo.co/blog/gopherconuk/While part of the dev team was still on EuroPython, Janez and I were packing to go to this year's Go conference in London. This was a first Go conference...Sun, 05 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/pyconweb-2018/https://niteo.co/blog/pyconweb-2018/PyConWeb is an international Python Web conference held in Munich. Its main purpose is...Sun, 05 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTConferencesGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/how-to-get-to-the-job-interview-at-niteo-as-a-developer/https://niteo.co/blog/how-to-get-to-the-job-interview-at-niteo-as-a-developer/In June we've opened up three job positions and received A TON of applications. Python job posting alone received more than 70 applicants in a matter of...Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTPeopleOpsDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/my-experience-at-icee-fest-2018/https://niteo.co/blog/my-experience-at-icee-fest-2018/Two weeks ago I was at the iCEE.fest conference. I decided to go because it takes place in Bucharest where I'm based. Then the event mostly focuses on...Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTMarketingNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteo-is-hiring/https://niteo.co/blog/niteo-is-hiring/Currently, Niteo has three open positions:Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTPeopleOpsDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/ltv-conf-may-2018-london/https://niteo.co/blog/ltv-conf-may-2018-london/I love going to conferences in London because it is one of the rare cities I have a direct connection to. We were invited to this one and being a small SaaS...Wed, 16 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTConferencesDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/resuming-uploads-to-amazon-s3/https://niteo.co/blog/resuming-uploads-to-amazon-s3/I am escaping continental winter at the moment which means my internet connection is not perfect. I was uploading a 1GB file to Amazon S3 via the...Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/irl4-istanbul/https://niteo.co/blog/irl4-istanbul/Last 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...Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/aws-ec2-gotchas/https://niteo.co/blog/aws-ec2-gotchas/Lately, 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...Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTTechJanez Trohahttps://niteo.co/blog/recording-talks/https://niteo.co/blog/recording-talks/Last 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...Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/nitean-recognition/https://niteo.co/blog/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...Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTPeopleOpsMarbe Ralozohttps://niteo.co/blog/conference-hiatus-is-over/https://niteo.co/blog/conference-hiatus-is-over/Back 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...Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/saastock-september-2017-dublin/https://niteo.co/blog/saastock-september-2017-dublin/This 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...Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTConferencesDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/upgrading-our-intranet-to-plone-5/https://niteo.co/blog/upgrading-our-intranet-to-plone-5/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...Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/thailand-was-a-blast/https://niteo.co/blog/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...Sat, 28 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTGeneralNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/how-we-work-in-niteoweb/https://niteo.co/blog/how-we-work-in-niteoweb/*Update: 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...Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMTGeneralDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/strings-in-python-2-and-python-3/https://niteo.co/blog/strings-in-python-2-and-python-3/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...Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMTTechGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/irls/https://niteo.co/blog/irls/NiteoWeb 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...Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMTGeneralNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/pymunich-2016/https://niteo.co/blog/pymunich-2016/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...Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMTConferencesGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/a-devs-macbook-from-scratch/https://niteo.co/blog/a-devs-macbook-from-scratch/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...Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/writing-the-docs-prague-2016/https://niteo.co/blog/writing-the-docs-prague-2016/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%...Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMTConferencesGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/wp-meetups/https://niteo.co/blog/wp-meetups/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...Sun, 11 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/lessons-learned-from-europython-2016/https://niteo.co/blog/lessons-learned-from-europython-2016/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...Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMTConferencesGasper Vozelhttps://niteo.co/blog/y-u-no-use-clipboard-manager11oneone/https://niteo.co/blog/y-u-no-use-clipboard-manager11oneone/Every time when I am in a pair-programming session and the other person does not use a clipboard manager I am taken aback at how such a thing is even...Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMTGeneralNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/new-niteoweb-com-website/https://niteo.co/blog/new-niteoweb-com-website/Well, we haven't worked in the consulting business for almost two years now, so it was about time we changed the website. Old Website !niteoweb 2009 New...Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMTGeneralDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/dear-plone-welcome-to-year-2014/https://niteo.co/blog/dear-plone-welcome-to-year-2014/Production-level Plone running on a free-tier Heroku account, made possible with a custom zc.buildout buildpack and PostgreSQL via RelStorage. Plone is suddenly a viable option for college dropouts starting their businesses again.Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/niteoweb-attended-a-pyramid-sprint-in-halle-germany/https://niteo.co/blog/niteoweb-attended-a-pyramid-sprint-in-halle-germany/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...Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTConferencesPeter Lamuthttps://niteo.co/blog/setuptools-run-custom-code-in-setup-py/https://niteo.co/blog/setuptools-run-custom-code-in-setup-py/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...Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTTechPeter Lamuthttps://niteo.co/blog/write-a-plone-cli-maintenance-script/https://niteo.co/blog/write-a-plone-cli-maintenance-script/This is a quick tip on how to write your own command line maintenance scripts for your Plone application. Recently one of our clients expressed a need for a...Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMTTechPeter Lamuthttps://niteo.co/blog/load-overrides-zcml-in-plone-app-testing/https://niteo.co/blog/load-overrides-zcml-in-plone-app-testing/Today I was working on a project where we use overrides.zcml to easily override some default Plone behavior. All was working fine (in the browser, that is)...Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/dexterity-vs-archetypes/https://niteo.co/blog/dexterity-vs-archetypes/TL;DR: migrating your Archetypes content to Dexterity shrinks your Data.fs considerably! I've started looking into migrating Archetypes content in one of...Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/raspberry-pi-boot-to-browser/https://niteo.co/blog/raspberry-pi-boot-to-browser/Here at NiteoWeb, we use various SaaS monitoring and logging providers such as Librato Metrics and Papertrail to keep on top of our Plone and Pyramid...Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/convert-z3c-form-field-desc-to-tooltip/https://niteo.co/blog/convert-z3c-form-field-desc-to-tooltip/Let's say you have a typical form with some input fields. By default z3c.form displays a description (if provided in form definition) above each form field,...Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTTechPeter Lamuthttps://niteo.co/blog/how-to-change-elements-id-with-diazo/https://niteo.co/blog/how-to-change-elements-id-with-diazo/A common scenario: on your website all subpages share a common header, but you want a different header on the front page. Let's say you differentiate...Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTTechPeter Lamuthttps://niteo.co/blog/robot-on-travis-uploading-results-to-s3/https://niteo.co/blog/robot-on-travis-uploading-results-to-s3/This is a walkthrough of how one could upload to Amazon S3 screenshots and other output files produced by Robot framework ran in a Travis CI build. The...Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/10-days-to-sprint-in-antwerp/https://niteo.co/blog/10-days-to-sprint-in-antwerp/The Belgian Beer Sprint is nearing ever so closer! Only a bit over a week is left until we start this year's EESTEC Plone sprint. Like last years we invited...Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/testing-log-output/https://niteo.co/blog/testing-log-output/ATTRIBUTION: This post was inspired by Domen's Mocking logging module for unittests post back from 2009. Most of the code below is from him, with some added...Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/fixing-unresolved-dependencies-error/https://niteo.co/blog/fixing-unresolved-dependencies-error/For a while now we've been getting the following errors on one of our sites:Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/openvpn-over-ssh/https://niteo.co/blog/openvpn-over-ssh/I've recently moved to Barcelona to continue my Computer Science studies on UB. First thing I noticed walking into the University building was my mobile...Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/professional-plone-4-development-review/https://niteo.co/blog/professional-plone-4-development-review/If you are doing Plone 4 development, go buy this book. Now.Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/plone-4-dev-on-lion/https://niteo.co/blog/plone-4-dev-on-lion/Recently I upgraded to OS X Lion and here are my notes on how I got my working environment working.Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/help-me-get-to-ploneconf/https://niteo.co/blog/help-me-get-to-ploneconf/Hi, I'm Nejc, a Plone user since 2005. I'm trying to get to the Plone Conference in San Francisco this year to do a talk on Raptus Article and I need a few...Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/collective-table-report-3/https://niteo.co/blog/collective-table-report-3/A week ago, myself and my mentor both participated in the Plone Sauna Sprint. It was an epic event, thanks to all sprinters for being that great throughout...Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/collective-table-alpha-release/https://niteo.co/blog/collective-table-alpha-release/It's now past the mid-term evaluation deadline for my Google Summer of Code project and it's time to release my work out to the wider community to receive...Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/collective-table-gsoc-report/https://niteo.co/blog/collective-table-gsoc-report/It's now been over a month since I started my Google Summer of Code project. It's been a fun month, full of newly learned tricks, mostly courtesy of my...Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/collective-svn-project-github/https://niteo.co/blog/collective-svn-project-github/More and more Plone projects are being migrated over to GitHub for various reasons. Here's a quick guide on how to import your Collective SVN project into...Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/assertion-t_size-b_size-failed/https://niteo.co/blog/assertion-t_size-b_size-failed/Recently, when migrating a Plone 4 site from one VPS server instance to another, we had the following problem: We were not able to start Zope with...Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/multiple-configurations-for-tunnelblick/https://niteo.co/blog/multiple-configurations-for-tunnelblick/A while ago I wrote about configuring Tunnelblick OpenVPN client for OS X. Here is how you can have multiple OpenVPN configurations with TunnelBlick: 1....Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/finding-bad-blocks-on-usb-flash-drives/https://niteo.co/blog/finding-bad-blocks-on-usb-flash-drives/After a recent thorough cleaning of my office desk I found a handful of USB sticks. I knew some of them were more or less broken and some should be OK. But...Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/deploying-cyn-in-3-1-3-on-centos-5-4/https://niteo.co/blog/deploying-cyn-in-3-1-3-on-centos-5-4/Last week we were upgrading Cyn.in to the latest version. After a few days of testing on a local server it was time to deploy it to the server. Since Cyn.in...Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/testing-memoized-methods/https://niteo.co/blog/testing-memoized-methods/For a recent Plone project we needed to write unit tests for methods that were using plone.memoize for caching return values. With a standard Plone's...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/order-of-parts-when-compiling-lxml/https://niteo.co/blog/order-of-parts-when-compiling-lxml/CentOS's repos don't have a working version of libxslt (you need 1.1.20, repos have 1.1.17) so we need to statically compile it for collective.xdv to work....Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/upgrade-cyn-in-2-1-to-3-1-3/https://niteo.co/blog/upgrade-cyn-in-2-1-to-3-1-3/We started using Cyn.in for internal documentation repository about 2 years ago. We are a small team of developers and we don't use all of it's features,...Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/secure-im-for-internal-communication/https://niteo.co/blog/secure-im-for-internal-communication/During this summer we finally got some time to review our internal working processes. One thing clearly missing was a solid IM solution for quick...Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/click2sell-integration-for-plone/https://niteo.co/blog/click2sell-integration-for-plone/After integrating Clickbank with Plone last month we decided we also need integration with Click2Sell affiliate marketing network. A new Plone add-on was...Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/compiling-lxml-on-64bit-centos/https://niteo.co/blog/compiling-lxml-on-64bit-centos/A few days ago I encountered a problem while deploying Plone 4 with collective.xdv to a CentOS cloud instance. Since CentOS' repos were a bit out of date I...Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/dd-wrt-tunnelblick-openvpn/https://niteo.co/blog/dd-wrt-tunnelblick-openvpn/Debating about VPNs on the Sauna Sprint, sprinters convinced me that we should use VPN for remote access to our internal services in our office. And for an...Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/back-from-helsinki/https://niteo.co/blog/back-from-helsinki/I'm back from another legendary sprint: Plone Sauna Sprint in Helsinki. No need to say anything more, here are the reports:Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/clickbank-integration-for-plone/https://niteo.co/blog/clickbank-integration-for-plone/So you want paid membership on your Plone site? Look no further, we present to you niteoweb.clickbank. It's a Plone 4 add-on that integrates ClickBank...Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/mladipodjetnik-si-performance-tweaks/https://niteo.co/blog/mladipodjetnik-si-performance-tweaks/MladiPodjetnik.si is a portal we've been actively developing since 2006 and has since seen 3 revisions. The latest one, running on Plone 3.1, was running...Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/new-plone-website-vodja-si/https://niteo.co/blog/new-plone-website-vodja-si/It's time for a new website release. This time it's Vodja.si. Vodja.si is a presentation website for a NLP and leadership trainer Marjan Račnik. The base...Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/imw-athens-and-cathedral-sprints/https://niteo.co/blog/imw-athens-and-cathedral-sprints/I've attended 3 sprints in the past month. Sprints are a great way to learn new Plone techniques and of course to meet fellow plonistas. I love the fact...Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTConferencesNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/new-project-bigcontentsearch-com/https://niteo.co/blog/new-project-bigcontentsearch-com/Last week we introduced a new project - BigContentSearch.com. It will be the first PLR membership website on the internet with over 100,000 articles in a...Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/os-x-specific-cfg-for-collective-xdv/https://niteo.co/blog/os-x-specific-cfg-for-collective-xdv/The collective.xdv manual on plone.org tells you how to customize your buildout.cfg in order to be able to run collective.xdv on OS X. However if you are...Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/new-wordpress-sites/https://niteo.co/blog/new-wordpress-sites/In the past few months we've deployed 3 new Wordpress sites. They are all basic presentation sites with low running costs.Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechDejan Murkohttps://niteo.co/blog/new-plone-website-lifeinljubljana-si/https://niteo.co/blog/new-plone-website-lifeinljubljana-si/During the first month of 2010 we've been busy developing a new site for Erasmus students in Ljubljana - LifeInLjubljana.si. It helps Erasmus students...Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/testing-session-in-plone-3-3/https://niteo.co/blog/testing-session-in-plone-3-3/Yesterday, while I was working on LifeInLjubljana.si, I had to test if some data was correctly written to Plone's session. I couldn't use the standard...Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/unrestrictedgetobject/https://niteo.co/blog/unrestrictedgetobject/Argh! Sometimes I am truly amazed by how much I can complicate things. For the past year or so, every time I had to access an object with brain.getObject()...Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/cwportlets-scrawl-and-disqus/https://niteo.co/blog/cwportlets-scrawl-and-disqus/Following previous post, here are instructions to get above mentioned products running on Plone 4 Alpha 2.Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupanhttps://niteo.co/blog/plone4-collective-xdv-deco-gs/https://niteo.co/blog/plone4-collective-xdv-deco-gs/Here at NiteoWeb Ltd. we decided a few days ago that we should start trying out Plone 4 in order to be ready for the stable release. There are quite some...Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMTTechNeyts Zupan