Author: Emanuel Blagonic
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Can designers and developers ever be friends?
While working on one project as a consultant, I worked with a team where developers genuinely resented designers, feeling their designs made life harder. The designers, lacking the technical knowledge to communicate effectively with the developers, unintentionally created friction between the two teams. “There is a deep mistrust between us and developers”, one designer told…
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Is there such a thing as a perfect work-life balance?
When I was in my late twenties I used to work all day long. Having a company of my own, I really loved what I was doing so working long days wasn’t a problem for me. Getting new clients, trying new technologies, travelling to conferences, meeting new people and preparing pitches long into the night…
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Pushing beyond limits – the secret to a more fulfilling life?
Whatever I do – no matter if it is life or business – I love to be surrounded by people who are better than me. These people push me forward, allow me to grow, inspire and help me make better life decisions. They also ask difficult questions not a lot of people will be willing…
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No bullshit mentality
I live by what I call the “no bullshit mentality”. This means I’m always honest, whether the question is personal or business-related. I’ll always respond with complete honesty—though sometimes, I may take a more diplomatic approach. In the past, during initial interviews for potential projects, I’ve focused on getting to know the clients while allowing…
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Never give up
It was a cold, April morning as I woke up in Manang, a small village high in the Himalayas. It was an acclimatisation day, meant to help our bodies adjust to the altitude. I planned to hike to the Ice lake some 1000 metres above Manang. I hadn’t packed lightly as most people do, because…
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Thank you for showing me how to draw a fish
This Sunday Luka asked me – “Dad, what should we do”. As we haven’t sketched anything in a long time I suggested – “Let’s draw something”. So, he said yes.
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Three years of WordCamp Europe
Most of us from the WordCamp Europe 2018 organising team were sitting in the organisers’ room. It was Saturday, June 16th, at around 5:30 PM and the conference we organised for the past ten months ended just a few minutes ago. During closing remarks, Jenny Beaumont, Milan Ivanović and Bernhard Kau announced Berlin as the…
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First ever WordCamp Belfast
It was a really busy week for me. After talking at WordCamp Kyiv and then visiting Chernobyl, the very next day I traveled to Belfast to attend and talk at another “first ever WordCamp”. Northern Ireland welcomed me very well, and WordCamp Belfast was a blast.
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A week in Ukraine for the first WordCamp Kyiv
I like to travel, visit new places and meet new, interesting people. WordCamp Kyiv was my 6th WordCamp this year, and the 4th I’ve been speaking at. Since I try to have at least 2 different talks each year, I applied to Kyiv with two talks, and a new one about accessibility got accepted. While…
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5 reasons to attend WordCamp Split
What can be better than a WordCamp? Maybe, a WordCamp in the summer at the coast when you can still swim? In just a few weeks, Croatian WordPress community will host its second WordCamp, which will be held in Split on the first weekend of September.
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Takeaways from WordCamp Europe 2016
The biggest WordCamp in the world (to date) is over. During three days of learning, meeting new people, partying and contributing, everyone found something for themselves. New friendships arose from people that have never seen each other in person but are connected with the love for an open source project that changed (and is still…
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Time for new challenges
When I was a little kid I didn’t know what to be when I grow up. I thought of myself as a pilot, firemen or astronaut. Sometimes, I wanted to drive race cars or be the one who drives a super-fast train. Don’t want to read the whole story? Skip to a “challenge me” part…
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Another year, another WordCamp Belgrade
Maybe I’m biased when it comes to the Serbian community. I don’t know. I know these people for quite some time now and I know the amount of work they put into organizing events and eventually – annual WordCamp. WordCamp Belgrade 2016 is the second WordCamp in Belgrade and this year it was even bigger…
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WordCamp London 2016 Recap
So, WordCamp London 2016 finished yesterday and it was a blast – like WordCamps usually are. An amazing organizing team and volunteers, valuable sponsors and finally – inspired audience, for three days of talks and contributing. Every talk I went was really good and I’m sorry I missed couple of them that were overlapping or…
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Can WordPress change the political transparency of an entire country?
To me – WordPress always meant freedom to publish anything. From 2005. it helped me make a living and what’s even more important – it grew with me. 10 years later, in 2015., we were approached to build a new website for the City of Rijeka on WordPress.
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5 reasons you have to apply to talk at WordCamp Europe
This article was first published on Netokracija (leading south–european technology blog) in Croatian, but decided to publish it here as well, since I believe these are unique reasons for applying to speak at WCEU. So, you’re working with WordPress. Professionally. Individually or as part of an agency? Did you think of applying to speak at WordCamp Europe?…
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1. World Information Architecture Day in Croatia
An event celebrating World Information Architecture Day was held in Zagreb, Croatia, last saturday. This event (organized by croatian agency UX Passion) gathered around 60 attendees from all around Croatia, eager to learn something new about IA, UX, web design, mobile, …
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How to build a WordPress community?
I would like to tell you a story about how couple of us started Croatian WordPress Community. It all began couple of months ago when three of us went to WordCamp Europe. Off course, building a community was something we thought about long before, but after WordCamp we made a decision to make the next…
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Leave your ego behind
Today, I’m gonna talk about human ego. Can we apprehend it, how to deal with it, what is good and what is bad. This is not a psychological article but it is written from my perspective, talking about my own ego problems and how I (hopefully) managed to keep it under control.
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Using Dropbox to help clients organize their web sitemap
Probably the most important thing when starting a new project is the content. But in 90% of all the cases you will have problem with it. Clients can be disorganized when it comes to content nevertheless they’re building a website from scratch or providing content from the current one.