1. A Slick intro to functional mapping of relational databases

    When I planned backend applications and I highlighted the key elements of them I used words like flexibility, speed, scalability and platform-independence. But the last one of these was always a lie in many ways. …


  2. Why Unsplash?

    Let’s start the story from far… …


  3. First steps with an international domain

    At the beginning of this year I bumped into the realization that despite I own koles.hu, my family name is actually Köles and I don’t own that domain. After a quick lookup I saw that köles.hu was still available, so I immediately bought. …


  4. Photo gallery site and the course I took

    In 2018 I attended a photography class organized by MOME. My goal was to get closer to how photography as a form of art works. …


  5. Google Maps made my photo famous

    Today I received an email from Google Maps. They gave me one point(!) because my only photo there reached more than 1000 views. …


  6. Almost free webhosting

    So my new webpage/blog is hosted by GitHub Pages. That is basically a free service with limitations. It handles static files only, no DataBase, no homegrown server-side PHP scripts. So the idea is to put your HTML files into GitHub and they will serve. To get the most out of it, you should use some framework. It would help you to overcome the boilerplate this offer requires. …


  7. Welcome to KOLES.HU

    Let’s start it over again, this time in English. For the sake of practicing the language and to make it easier to type text without any funky Hungarian letters. …