Personal blog and archive of articles written over 20+ years in IT.
A WooCommerce site with an ERP integration in progress. The external developer reported a mixed encoding in the database: latin1, utf8mb3, and utf8mb4. ALTER TABLE looked like the right move. But it wasn't so.
Depending on where I am, I work on different devices. Setting up and syncing local development environments is a problem I solved by not having local development environments.
Cloudflare Pages gives you a global CDN, automatic HTTPS, and Git-based deployments on the free tier. The setup is mostly straightforward, with one navigational quirk that will send you in circles if you do not know where to look.
I opened the AstroPaper demo and two things stood out immediately: the typography and the dark mode. That was enough to look closer.
When I decided to rebuild my personal blog, I needed a static site generator that would get out of my way. A recommendation pointed me toward Astro, and the more I looked at it, the more it made sense for what I was building.
A recap of DORS/CLUC 2026, the 31st edition of Croatia's oldest open source and Linux conference, where I gave a talk on documentation and AI, and where AI turned out to be the thread running through most of the programme.
A commit showed an email address I never typed. Turns out git is quite resourceful when you leave it to its own devices.
Some platforms are silently banned on Hacker News. Your posts go dead and you never know. If this matters to you, here's what you can do about it.
No errors in the dashboard doesn't mean the deployment actually happened.
I've been writing in Markdown for years. At some point it stopped making sense to maintain a WordPress blog alongside that. Here's how I ended up with Astro.
A detailed comparison of Memgraph and Amazon Neptune graph databases: query languages, deployment flexibility, performance, scalability, and pricing.
Learn how to integrate Confluent's Kafka platform with Memgraph using Docker Compose to enable real-time IoT data streaming and graph analytics.
How and why to denormalize graph databases to improve performance: identifying candidates for denormalization, strategies (data duplication, aggregation, path materialization), and trade-offs.
Explore the Berlin subway network using Memgraph Lab. Learn how to import CSV data, run Cypher queries, find shortest paths, and style your graph visualizations.
A comprehensive guide to the Apache License 2.0: its core features, permissive nature, patent protection, redistribution rules, and how it compares to MIT, GPL, and BSD licenses.
A deep dive into database snapshots: how they work, copy-on-write vs redirect-on-write, how Memgraph handles snapshots, advantages, pitfalls, and best practices.
How to use Memgraph as a Docker Extension for real-time graph analytics, including installation, architecture overview, and hands-on example with the Pandora Papers dataset.
An introduction to key-value databases: how they work, their benefits (speed, horizontal scaling, flexible data models), potential drawbacks, and when to use them.
A comprehensive introduction to PostgreSQL: its features, benefits, ACID compliance, extensibility, and when to consider migrating to a graph database like Memgraph.
A comprehensive guide to the MIT License: its terms, variations (MIT-0, JSON License, X11), benefits, limitations, and how it compares to GPL, Apache, and BSD licenses.
Learn how to install Memgraph Platform, connect to it using Memgraph Lab, run your first Cypher query, and style your graph.
A quick workaround for using Font Awesome icons as node background images in Memgraph Lab by converting SVG to PNG and uploading to a web server.
Nastavak prikaza Office 365 Plannera — dodjeljivanje zadataka članovima tima, praćenje statusa, vizualni prikaz u grafikonu i integracija s grupama.
Uvod u Office 365 Planner — aplikaciju za praćenje zadataka i koordinaciju timskog rada, s prikazom kreiranja planova i osnovnih postavki.
Prikaz online aplikacije Forms unutar paketa Office 365 — alata za izradu jednostavnih obrazaca, upitnika i anketa.
Pregled aplikacija i alata dostupnih unutar paketa Office 365 za visokoškolske ustanove u Hrvatskoj, uključujući novosti kao što su Planner i Forms.
Vodič za odabir CMS-a (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Typo3) s pregledom generatora statičnih web-stranica i flat file CMS rješenja te savjetima za migraciju između sustava.
Uvodni vodič u izradu web-stranica za početnike i iskusne korisnike - pregled editora, WYSIWYG alata, LAMP/WAMP okruženja i FTP klijenata s naglaskom na besplatne alate dostupne akademskoj zajednici.
Pregled metoda i tehnika za sigurno brisanje podataka s raznih medija - razlika između clearing i sanitization postupaka, Gutmann metoda i pregled softverskih alata.
Pregled online sustava Zoho Projects za upravljanje projektima - besplatni i plaćeni modeli, dostupni moduli, integracija s MS Project, Basecamp i Google Apps.
Detaljni pregled sustava Feng Office za uredsko poslovanje i upravljanje projektima - moduli, funkcionalnosti i usporedba s alternativnim rješenjima.
Pregled strategija rotacije medija za sigurnosnu pohranu podataka: Round-Robin, Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) i Towers of Hanoi metoda - prednosti, nedostaci i preporuke za primjenu.
Tehničko objašnjenje kako programi za izradu sigurnosnih kopija određuju koje datoteke treba pohraniti - archive bit u Windows sustavima i mtime/ctime/atime zapisi u Unix/Linux okruženjima.
Pregled open source web baziranog sustava ProjectPier za upravljanje projektima i grupnu suradnju - koncepti, funkcionalnosti i usporedba s alternativama poput Feng Officea i Zoho Projectsa.
Pregled osnovnih metoda izrade sigurnosnih kopija: puna, inkrementalna i diferencijalna sigurnosna kopija - definicije, prednosti, nedostaci i preporuke za testiranje.
Pregled besplatnog alata Pencil za brzu izradu wireframea i prototipova korisničkih sučelja, dostupnog kao Firefox dodatak i samostalna aplikacija za Windows, Linux i OS X.
Objašnjenje Linux runlevela, init daemona i načina rada inicijalizacijskog sustava, s posebnim osvrtom na Slackware distribuciju i razlike između init, upstart i systemd pristupa.
Kratki pregled usluge GSS (pohrana i dijeljenje datoteka za akademsku zajednicu) s poveznicom na video upute za rad s datotekama.
Vodič za instalaciju i konfiguraciju Gallery 2 web bazirane fotogalerije, s pregledom alternativnih rješenja poput Zenphota, Piwiga i Copperminea.
Kako iskoristiti Twitter kao alternativni komunikacijski kanal za obavještavanje korisnika o radovima na sustavu i pružanje korisničke podrške.
Pregled RSS agregatora i alata za praćenje RSS/Atom izvora: Google Reader, Google Feedburner i dostupni formati RSS čitača.
Pregled QR kodova: tehničke karakteristike, alati za generiranje i praktična primjena u upravljanju IT opremom i korisničkoj dokumentaciji.
Instalacija i konfiguracija YOURLS aplikacije za pokretanje vlastitog servisa za skraćivanje URL-ova na internoj mreži ili Internetu.
Tehnički pregled načina preusmjeravanja URL-ova: meta refresh, JavaScript redirect i 301/302 HTTP kodovi u Apache web poslužitelju.
Pregled najpopularnijih online servisa za skraćivanje URL-ova: bit.ly, goo.gl i TinyURL, s osvrtom na njihove prednosti i nedostatke.
Kratke video upute za pristup usluzi GSS putem WebDAV protokola i preglednika datoteka operacijskog sustava.
Kratke video upute za pristup usluzi GSS (pohrana i dijeljenje datoteka) putem standardnog web preglednika.
Pregled modula Open Atriuma za stvaranje sadržaja: Blog, Notebook, Case Tracker, Shoutbox i Calendar.
Pregled mogućnosti Open Atriuma: korisnički računi, uloge, grupe i prilagodba Dashboard sučelja.
Pregled novosti u Outlooku 2010: nitni prikaz razgovora, poboljšano pretraživanje poruka, podrška za više Exchange računa unutar jednog profila i Outlook Social Connector.