Aleksandar Vacić » aplus

Contact form fixed

Aleksandar — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:57:56 +0000

If you have tried to contact me through the contact form in last month or so — please accept my apologies. When .yu TLD went dead, I forgot to change the form code and emails went to the old domain.

Fixed now, things are back in order.

Protected posts?

Aleksandar — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:23:12 +0000

As I’m baby stepping through the iPhone SDK development, I encounter some strange stuff. Given the unfortunate (to say the least) circumstance of the NDA still in place as of this writing, I can’t post publicly about it. I can’t ask on forums nor would anyone be allowed to answer. That’s how NDA stuff works.

In order not to lose these stuff and to keep note of problem and solution (if I find one) for future benefit, I’m doing this password-protected posts that I will reveal once NDA is lifted.

Which hopefully will happen’ at some point.

update: it did not take long – just days after I did this, Apple killed the NDA.

Moved to new domain

Aleksandar — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:28:18 +0000

This domain used to reside on the aplus.co.yu domain. .yu domain belonged to former Yugoslavia, which has died, despite the futile attempts to keep whatever is left of it under the same name.

With it, the TLD is on its way out and the new Serbian domain is .rs

Thus this blog and all its auxiliary content is now under aplus.rs web address. All the links pointing to old web site will get R=301 message and will hopefully soon be pointing to new addresses.

Upgrading WordPress, the *nix way

Aleksandar — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:08:34 +0000

I always forget the set of command line stuff I need to do when new version of WP is out. And always waste time figuring out what to do and which switches tar and cp needs. So, this is a reminder for the future.

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
gzip -d latest.tar.gz
tar -xvf latest.tar
cp -r wordpress/* SITE/wpa

That should do it. Now off to upgrade rest of the blogs.

Note that wpa in the SITE/wpa above is my wordpress folder. Replace that with correct path for your installation.

Photography section updated

Aleksandar — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:20:03 +0000

I have upgraded the My photography section to ZenPhoto 1.1.5, which brings along several long awaited features:

SPAM-protected comments – most notably Akismet integration
EXIF info extraction
Ratings, per album and per photo

There’s also bunch of new developments, all very welcome and which shows that this project is in good hands. Introduction of Akismet allows me to re-enable the comments, which I had to turn off due to massive SPAMfection after just a week of the original gallery being online. I have good experience with Akismet in blog comments – I expect it to work the same here.

If you havent looked recently, there’s bunch of new photos of my little kid, as well as nice gallery of my last visit to London.

I also corrected some of the display issues with IE7 in the overall site layout.

Return

Aleksandar — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:45:15 +0000

Entire site is revamped.

New stuff – services (still a lot to do here). Goodies moved there.
Pages designed to fit the content, not the other way around. See About and Photos. Posts will have specific design, when appropriate.

Things might break, go haywire. Usually it will look just good.

More soon; now off to 10 days of grapes, vineyard and wine making.

Photographs

Aleksandar — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:54:59 +0000

I have added a new link under About section in the navigation – ‘My photographs’. I have used Flickr in the past (and still visit frequently) but never could get myself to pay for a Pro account. I’m just not into this social networking stuff.

I prefer to keep the photos on my own server. I will be slowly adding more and more photos there. Currently Aleksa rules that space and probably always will :)
Aside from his shots, I uploaded 233 images from our Paris trip in April – hope you like them.

Realigned

Aleksandar — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:06:31 +0000

I got tired of the old design and changed it a bit. A bit. :)

Apart from really small font (Calibri, if you have it), graphic-pen tones and narcissistic bit on the right, I changed how the ads are presented. Now, all of you visiting this site more than 5 times, will not see any ads, at all. This is of course due to Howie’s post on how ads really work.

Adsense, TextLinkAds and AuctionAds is the trio I’m using at the moment. Will see how it goes.

I have a feeling that design will be tweaked in the following weeks…

Donations. Custom work

Aleksandar — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:29:44 +0000

I actually had the donations page for few months now, but only recently added the PayPal option. As the page says, scripts and techniques are free to use. If however, any of the stuff here saved you a day’s work, made the sun shine stronger or generally made your day – consider donating; for a Guinness pint or two or bottle of fine rose wine – it would suffice. :)

There are two options: PayPal, the usual favourite and 2checkout.com. If you have a PayPal account – and it’s getting really hard to find anyone without one – that’s the most convenient option.

Work hire

Those two are also equally usable for payments. If you need some specific variation of the code featured on this site or some other small and specific work done – feel free to contact me.

In the past, when I had more free time, I was happy to code-in anything. Lately – even though still happy to accept any challenge – I picked up some old interests: drawing, book reading (Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time will keep me busy for a long while :)) along with other personal developments which I might write about soon.
Whatever the case, it’s much harder to justify spending few hours a day tweaking CSS code versus a nice tea or coffee and a book.

You send your requirement and I will quickly return with time-frame and quote. At the moment, being fully employed on a demanding job, I’m able to take only rather small stuff. As small is variable matter :) best would be to contact me and we will discuss it.