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Falsy Values 2011 - True Javascript Event

Fri, 27 May 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Last weekend I managed to attend Falsy Values - a first truly Javascript event organised in Poland I was aware of - I’m quite young so I could miss some before :)

Warsaw Startup Weekend 2011

Mon, 23 May 2011 20:20:20 +0000

Two weeks ago an event called Startup Weekend, which gathers the most talented and passionate people in neighbourhood, took place. No surprise - I was there. It was awesome!

Beta Launch of TalkHotels

Thu, 05 May 2011 10:20:30 +0000

We’re pleased to announce that a few days ago, we launched TalkHotels.com Beta!

Ajax file upload: custom solution or ready plugin?

Tue, 03 May 2011 11:20:30 +0000

XMLHttpRequest has some limitation. Form submission can be one of good examples. So if you have a form which contains file input you can't simply send your form data with ajax. One the solutions is to remove this feature and send your form data in a old-school-way. But what can you do in a situation that your client really wants to have this feature? Well… you need to roll up your sleeves and dive into code.

20th International WWW Conference, India

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:35:30 +0000

If there is a place where you can feel in which direction Web heads to, it must be at International World Wide Web Conference. This year's event took place in hot Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India and was as inspiring as expected.

Rails3, Apache Passenger and empty file using send file

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:20:30 +0000

This is quick note and time-saver if you notice that send_file method in your Rails 3 application deployed on Apache Passenger stopped working.

4 must read books about machine learning

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:11:00 +0000

If you are software developer in search of books on the topic of machine learning to expand your book collection, here’s 4 books I strongly recommend.

How to implement spatial search with Sunspot and Solr.

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:19:39 +0000

In the tutorial I would like to share with you how to implement spatial search with Rails, Sunspot, Solr and some code based on Google Maps API.