I’ve always heard that Budapest is one of the most beautiful capital cities in Europe. It didn’t disappoint. I spent a week here and enjoyed every single day.
I was there in late August and found it to be a very good time to visit. It felt more like spring weather, which made walking around very pleasant. There were a few days when there were rain showers but they weren’t bad at all. There were …
Being able to write Android apps in Python sounded very appealing to me so I decided to try out Kivy, a Python library that lets you do just that.
Kivy actually allows you to run your Python app not just on Android, but on other platforms as well such as IOS, Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX. So it’s also a good option for writing desktop applications. The project seems to be very active and …
Just before my trip to Serbia, every time another traveler asks me where I was going next, they’d get a puzzled look and ask “Serbia? Why are you going there?”.
Serbia doesn’t seem to be really known as a tourist destination. The main reason I was coming here was to actually just visit a Serbian friend I met in Seattle over 3 years ago when I was there for a 1-week IT training. It was …
I would’ve never found out about the Guca Trumpet Festival, one of the biggest festivals in Serbia, if my Serbian friend didn’t mention it. Hundreds of thousands of people attend this festival in Guca (pronounced ‘goo-cha’), a village of approximately 2,000 people, every year in August. This year was the 53rd time the festival had been celebrated.
I’m not really big into partying and wasn’t really sure what to expect in a trumpet festival, …
I just finished integrating Stripe with a subscription-based Django application a few weeks ago for processing credit card payments. This was the first time I've used this service and found the Stripe API and documentation to be very well written. Below are some things I learned while working on this project.
One of the main reasons to …