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Washington and KDD 2022 visit
During my three-month visit in Boston, Marinka and I went to visit Washington between Saturday, August 13, 2022 and Tuesday,
How to copy all e-mails between IMAP servers
In 2022 Google decided to cancel free tier to legacy Google Workspace accounts (i.e., formerly known as GSuite). Due to
Research visit at the University of South Florida and road trip
I am collaborating with my friend, prof. dr. Glenn Gordon Smith, from the College of Education, University of South Florida.
Synology RSYNC backup to a Linux server
Last year I bought a Synology DS1520+. I am very satisfied with it (will have a separate post on that
Motion EYE: Remote SSL + RTSP camera support
Motion EYE project does not support cameras providing RTSP streams only. I had one such camera and wanted to add
California - places to visit
In June 2018 I went to Florida, Tampa and California, Palo Alto. In Tampa I was visiting the University of
Apache and forwarding a client certificate Id to WebSocket
Recently I came across a problem of forwarding a certificate Id to backend service for the authentication purposes. I also
Creating a Mac OS .app from a runnable JAR file
Here we solve a problem that many developers face when bundling java applications into an .app. We are going to
A simple custom solution to multi-language support using JS
Recently, I needed to add a multi-language support to a website that was run using PHP. Sure, I could use
Part 3/3: Reading analog input using RPi
Continuing from the previous example, we would like our LED to turn on automatically, based on the light level of
Part 2/3: OpenHAB + RPi + LEDs + Camera
We are continuing with the example from the first part of the tutorial: https://blog.zitnik.si/2016/02/04/part-13-controlling-leds-using-raspberry-pi/. In this part we are going
Part 1/3: Controlling LEDs using Raspberry Pi
In this post I will review, how to turn on or off LEDs using Raspberry Pi 2, Model B (RPi).
Databases Summer School at Kyungpook National University
During July 2015 prof. dr. Marko Bajec and I held a one-month summer school on databases and database design at
My PhD Defense
I started my PhD directly after finishing my undergrad study, as a Junior Researcher from industry at Optilab and Laboratory
The end of Lajkbuk (previously Likebook) platform
In the early days of 2013 a friend of mine Dean Virant had an idea of developing a state-of-the-art platform
Data Technologies at Slovene national TV
Today I talked a little about the data and related technologies at the national tv show. You can watch the
Data extraction using Alchemy API
As I am very interested into information extraction from textual data, from the research perspective, I have tried to used
Optilab Tech Talk: Programming in Scala
As I am a huge fan of Scala, I presented some features of this great language to my colleagues at
Informatics 2013 Conference
This year we had a bilateral project with Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia. My Serbian friend Bojan Furlan and
Machine Learning for everyone - PredictionIO
PredictionIO (http://prediction.io/) is an open source machine learning (ML) server. Its goal is to make personalization and recommendation algorithms more
After ACL 2013 Trip: Plovdiv, Nessebar, Sunny Beach and Varna
On the 10th of August I left Sofia by train heading towards Plovdiv. I stayed there for two nights. On
ACL 2013, Days 5,6
After the conference, there were two days of workshops. I had applied for the BioNLP workshop in which Marinka and
ACL 2013, Day 4
This morning's keynote was given by Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Washington, Dr. Chantel Prat.
ACL 2013, Day 3
In the morning there was a keynote given by Lars Rasmussen who got his PhD at the University of Edinburgh,
ACL 2013, Day 2
Today it was the official conference opening. Obviously, this year's ACL is one of the biggest conferences. There were almost
Optilab Tech Talk: Social APIs & Spring Social
At Optilab I presented the use of Social APIs, focusing on using Facebook API and Spring Social libraries. At first
Optilab SCI-Talk: Hidden Markov Models
In May 2013 I had a simple tutorial about Hidden Markov Models. I introduced the type of algorithm, presented forward/backward
ACL 2013, Day 1
Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL) conference is one of the top ranked conferences in the field of natural language processing.
Kuhinjski podvig: Priprava jagodne rolade
Jagodna rolada mi je ena izmed najljubših sladic, zato sem se odločil, da jo poskusim pripraviti še sam. V tej
Optilab SCI Talk S02E01 - An Introduction into Entity Detection
I am posting a first lecture of second season of Optilab's Science Talks. The recording was a pilot project, but
How to integrate two independent jQuery libraries within a single page?
It has been long since my last post. That is not because I have nothing useful to write, but more
Marinka Žitnik (sestra) - čestitam za vse uspehe, Univerzitetno in fakultetno Prešernovo nagrado!
Posnetek podelitve v okviru Dneva FRI, 5.12.2012: (Chrome 6, Safari :), isti posnetek je tudi dostopen na: http://zitnik.si/temp/DanFRI_MarinkaZitnik_05_12_2012.mp4)
YouTrack4 installation on Ubuntu 12.04
YouTrack4 seems free alternative to Atlassian's JIRA. I use JIRA on production projects and on first sight it seems far
Marinka Žitnik (sestra) - zagovor diplomske naloge
Danes je Marinka Žitnik zagovorila svojo diplomsko nalogo z naslovom "Pristop matrične faktorizacije za gradnjo napovednih modelov iz heterogenih podatkovnih
Optilab Tech Talk - "Ontology as NoSQL Database Schema"
Today I presented a HOT topic about Ontologies and NoSQL as a Tech Talk at Optilab d.o.o.. At this company
FRI Summer School - "How to make your own Facebook"
I attended FRI Summer School "How to make your own Facebook" from 9th-13th July 2012. The school was mainly by
Presentation at Doctoral Consortium - CAiSE 2012
Slides are available few posts below...
Android Tutorial: "Android: From Idea to Application"
This week I am going to attend "Swing Morja in Sonca 2012" - Summer Swing dance workshops and parties in
CAiSE Conference, Days 3-5
In the following days the main conference took place. It began on wednesday with Prof. Michele Missikof's talk "Looking at
CAiSE Conference, Day 2
Today I woke up early to finish my presentation I had at 9:30 at the Doctoral Consortium - Collective Ontology-based
CAiSE Conference, Day 1
Today we started at 9 o'clock at Gdansk University. I attended IWSSA Workshop (International Workshop on System/Software Architectures). There were
CAiSE 2012 Conference, Pre-Day 1
24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'12) is this year organized in Gdansk, Poland. It is a "class
My phone usage history and back to ... Android!
In this post I will briefly present all the mobile phones I owned and will point out pros/cons of iPhone
Simple tutorial: Linked Data - the NoSQL driver?
In this demo I will show how semantic data can be easily created and manipulated using ontologies and NoSQL datastores.
Mac OSX Lion: Time Machine to PC share
There are problems backing up Mac OSX computers to network shares (other than Apple :)) because Apple uses some proprietary
LG TV and .mkv via DLNA
My LG TV played .mkv files from USB, but not via DLNA. After selecting .mkv file, "This file is invalid"
Apache Nutch 1.4 - Form authentication [SOLVED]
As I have been searching over the internet, I found out lots of people having problems with Form-based authentication when
PubLoOnSteroids Limited Edition
We are happy to announce a brand new fork version of PubLo. It is featuring better 24/7 support. Have ever
Natural Language Processing in Slovene language
I have checked tools for text processing in Slovene language. As I have found out, there are no published named
Quick intro to Weka
Weka (http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/) is Data Mining software from The University of Waikato. In Slovenia, The Bioinformatics Laboratory has also developed well