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Open source calendar UI

2010, November 17 - 09:26

I recently created a calendar for ecological events for my wife.

The center piece of it is, of course, the calendar widget.
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Presentation on prediction markets

2010, October 23 - 11:46

This is my polished-up presentation on prediction markets. The basic idea is that there must be a serious problem underlying the slow adoption of prediction markets globally.

Sure, they are popular and actively used in some companies, but they fail to gain real traction and dominate the forecasting market in the real world.

My idea is that there are two causes.
What's the most important problem in your world?

2010, October 22 - 08:00
There is a very nice essay (well, actually, it's a talk) by Richard Hamming titled "You and your research". In it he describes how he used to ask his colleagues at Bell Labs a few very annoying questions:
1. "What are the important problems of your field?"
2. "What important problems are you working on?'"
3. "If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?"
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Drupal Camp Baltics 2010

2010, September 27 - 10:00

The Drupal Camp Baltics 2010 took place last saturday (25th September 2010). Aside from the opportunity to meet a lot of new people, I also gave a talk on drupal module development. In case anyone is interested, You can find it on slideshare (or download the pdf below.)
Zen Coding for emacs!

2010, May 2 - 22:24

Writing html (mockups or design implementations) is tedious work (if you can get it) and this is where Zen Coding comes in.
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Taking steps..

2009, December 8 - 09:00

While working on referrer tracking on our system, I noticed that links from emails viewed in gmail do not contain referrer headers. This seemed strange at first.
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Document similarity in postgresql

2009, December 3 - 00:56

Once you have a full text search index available, it seems only natural to be able to find similar documents. Doing this with postgresql's full text search requires a few tricks though.

When considering search in the vector space model, documents and queries are very similar (identical if we have unweighted terms). Hence comparing a document to a query or to another document is basically the same operation: finding the cosine of the angle between two vectors.
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Lithuanian drupal kickoff conference

2009, November 5 - 19:27

Last tuesday, on the 3rd of November, the first Lithuanian drupal conference took place in Kaunas, the Kaunas University of Technology Information Technology Development Institute. Albeit small, it was a nice event and hopefully an impulse for the growth of the lithuanian drupal community.
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Full text search with postgreSQL

2009, July 29 - 10:45

At Nous we are working on a web portal for students, which makes sharing and authoring study materials easy. Effective full text search is a necessary feature and we started looking for viable solutions quite early.

The essential requirements were ease of deployment and integration with our pylons-base application.
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Why drupal?

2009, June 9 - 09:19

So, this is my first post and the first question I want to answer right now is why I am using drupal.

At Nous we are working on a web platform for students, where they will be able to collaboratively create their lecture notes and share other study-related materials (more about that later). Since we are using python and pylons, I guess it would be logical to expect me to be using a pythonic system for my blog (e.g. zine ). Yet I have chosen drupal.
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