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 [...]
“You provide the food, I’ll provide the perspective” it’s my favourite quote from the (excellent, if you want my opinion) Ratatouille. In software, we have a awful lot of “foods” (new technologies, languages, frameworks, architectures, websites), but we have a few people able to put them in the right perspective. That’s what I [...]
I guess I’m developing some antibodies against all the buzz around some so-called Web2.0 websites, but sometimes I still find something that’s really remarkable (and worth writing about).
This time the website is called Picnik and it is, simply put, an online photo editing tool. The functionalities it offers are much more you can expect from [...]
Nasty things happen, always on Friday….
1. I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu 7.04 to the latest and greatest Gusty Gibbon, but everything got messed up (ok, I’m not completely innocent, since I tried to enable Compiz effects on a blacklisted video card), and the computer was crashing every few minutes… eventually I backed up everything [...]
While Techcrunch shows us quite daily how many (hardly) useful web 2.0 tools get overhyped (not to mention, over-paid or over-funded) in this period, it’s incredible to discover an incredibly useful service barely known to the public (and to Google).
Its (strange) name is Faucet Vcast (attention! ugly interface behind!), and it’s a simple and effective [...]
I used to filter comment spam in this blog using a homegrown “Comment blacklist”, and it worked very well… in the beginning. However, in the last few day I had no time to regularly check my daily dose of spam and feed the blacklist, and as a result I had some spam published in my [...]
As several people has noticed, this blog has been unreachable for some time lately; in fact, it has been down for more than 36 hours, starting from Wednesday at 11 pm till today at midday.
If you have some experience with those guys, you perfectly know that it’s not the first time they have problems with [...]
Update: the upgrade went smoothly… I’m also experimenting with a new template, so there might be some minor issues
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I’m upgrading this weblog to Wordpress 2.0.2, so this site could be unstable for a while. Wish me good luck!
Seems like some brave cracker have defaced my website (again) last night; it’s incredible to see how popular is this blog among hackers!
Anyway, the good guy have saved this weblog but deleted everything else (and, before you ask, no, I didn’t have a recent backup).. so some links (resume, articles, screencasts….) aren’t working today. I’ll [...]
In my job at Sourcesense I deeply rely on instant messangers to get in touch with my collegues who work in other cities, from home or at customer premises. So it is really annoying when I am at a client site and I cannot connect to IM’s because of firewall restrictions.
If you happen to find [...]
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