Travelling, and not Arriving

What is a career in Engineering all about?

(Posting here, so you can use it as a future reference)

Pointy-update from Milano

Some burocrazy and family reunions led me back to Italy last Sunday, and I’m spending my first entire week in Italy since months. I took the opportunity for a quick visit to my friends of the Java User Group Milano last night; so, what’s happening down here?

I attended the November meeting of Jug Milano; it’s […]

Italians would do I.T. better….

.. if they could !
Now that I’m an expat I don’t really know if laugh or cry about stories like the one my friend Fabrizio is writing me. In fact, it turns out that Google is organizing a terrific Android Developer Challenge, with total (cash) awards for 10 million dollars (!). Isn’t it a good […]

No hackers, just providers! (aka Upgrading stories, Reloaded)

(Beware: nearly all the links contained in this post point to contents in italian)
So, where do I begin? From here, I guess. In this post I explained you that this website has been offline for some hours on Friday due to a “nice” hacker incursion; the alleged hacker just renamed a folder, putting my weblog […]

Web2.0 vs Customer-less company? (yet another rant)

The more I deal with companies, the more I realize that the difference from modern, web-oriented, companies and the older ones is abysmal. Is not a technological difference though, but an opposite approach to customers.
Some real examples (happened to me just last Friday and Saturday):

Someone stole my eBay identity on Friday; somehow he guessed the […]