A lot of countries in the world can not use Stripe for processing payments or similar services (even PayPal) so if someone wants to accept credit cards in a webshop then this can be painful if you are not from well-known country such as USA, UK, EU country, Canada, Australia… Sometimes even if you have found a good payment processor, small bureaucratic issue can make the life difficult (for example I had an experience that payment processor allowed me to accept American Express credit card but American Express wanted to…read more

13.11.2013

09.10.2013

Lake Bled

Leisure and Pleasure

Located only 40-45 minutes from Ljubljana (with a car) Bled lake is perfect for one day trip. Completely beautiful this jewel of nature refill your batteries for a whole week. Just take a walk around the lake (approximately 1h of walking or 5km for full circle) and enjoy looking at Alps mountains cover with a snow, amazing small island with a church at the middle of the lake and old 1,000 years old castle at the top of rock near the lake. Bring some old bread and feed the swans…read more

When Microsoft make descriptive error message…

Technologies

We came to this error when rendering one ASP.NET MVC page: Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls. Very strange formulation butit means that you have some error in your View (maybe missing </asp:Content> or without its opening tag)

23.09.2013

29.08.2013

Scrum and Kanban development frameworks

Learning

Just returned from the very interesting lecture (by Dušan Omerčević from Zemanta and Andrej Zrimšek from NiceLabel) about Scrum and Kanban development frameworks here in Ljubljana, Slovenia and I am right now thinking about what I heard there and comparing with our approach, what we are doing in out development process. What I like is this: Developers protection from new feature requests while they are in one Sprint cycle. We have this problems all the time (adding new features and breaking the release date agreement). What was agreed this exactly…read more

Best new web technologies

Technologies

Creating modern website od SaaS service requires you to be familiar with a lot of new technologies such as: HTML 5 WebGL and 3D effects – look at these super nice examples jQuery (best popular JS library for easy front-end programming) CSS 3 (and it’s extensions: Sass or LESS) Responsive design frameworks (“One site to rule them all”): Foundation, Gumby, Bootstrap, Unsemantic, Skeleton Non-relation datastores or NoSQL such as MongoDB AJAX Delegated authentication & authorization, using OAuth, used by popular services such as Facebook, Twitter, Google & LinkedIn REST-ful paradigms…read more

08.08.2013

06.08.2013

Vacation in Komiža at Island Vis in Adriatic Sea, Croatia

Leisure and Pleasure

This was my first trip to the Island Vis in Adriatic Sea, Croatia and I spent a pleasant vacation with my family. It is one the farthest Island off the Croatian Coast (Palagruža is the farthest but you can not come there with a Ferry) and it has area about 90 square kilometres and about 3,500 inhabitants (off-season). How do you come here? You take A1 highway from Zagreb to Split and there you take the Ferry (here is the time table) and travel by boat for about 2.5 hours….read more

23.07.2013

How to find quickly specific table in DBML designer in Visual Studio

Databases

I spent a lot of time in my life working on complex web, mobile and desktop projects in Microsoft Visual Studio and dealing with databases and I always wanted and easy way to find specific SQL table in DBML designer in Visual Studio. This is how DBML designer looks like: This is only one prt of DBML and if ou don’t have 30″ screen it is really hard to find specific table. Usually, after changing just on column in specific table, or adding/deleting some column, it is easier to delete…read more

How to Convert HTML to PDF

Products and Services

Almost every SaaS product or service needs to create PDF document in an easy way and sometimes what is an obvious task is not so easy to implement. We are not talking about creating PDF from other programs but creating PDF on-the-fly, for example, when someone buy something in your webshop you want to send him thank you letter together with an attached PDF invoice. There are free and paid solutions to achieve this task. I will cover here only this topic “How to create PDF in Microsoft .NET and…read more

21.07.2013

Working hard is not guarantee for prosperity

Thoughts

It is very important where we invest our life energy every day and to measure that every week (what we have done and what we have gained). Working hard on unimportant things in completely irrelevant when we talk about the prosperity because there is no added value. Spending time on quarrelling, worrying is complete waste of time, so don’t do this. The most important thing is to set the goals and then work hard on the steps that can bring you more closer to achieving these goals – this is…read more

03.07.2013

Copy-Paste Stopped Working on Remote Desktop Connection

System Administration

This happened few times and is annoying when you can not Copy-Paste among Remote Server and your Local Machine How to fix when clipboard stops working at RDP? Open RDP to your server and login Open Task Manager (right click Taskbar and select Task Manager) Go to the Processes Tab Find rdpclip.exe Click End Process Go to the Application Tab Click New Process Type rdpclip Click Ok After that, Copy and Paste should work normally again. How do you fix this permanently? There is no cure for permanent fix but…read more

25.06.2013

Solving tech problems

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