Welcome to the personal blog of Giuliani Vito Ivan. Here you'll find my random thoughts about web development, design and mostly everything that is computer releated.

Google Wave impressions from a developer point of view

August 28th, 2009

A couple of days ago I finally had my Google Wave sand­box account. Given that I just fin­ished devel­op­ing my very first robot, I thought I’d share some impres­sions on the whole thing. From the user-​side, things are far from being ready. Some impor­tant fea­tures are still miss­ing, just to name one you can’t remove user from a wave once they joined (or, alter­na­tively, there’s no way to ignore a wave). Indeed, given that I joined sev­eral waves to try other people appli­ca­tions, I’m get­ting con­tin­u­ous noti­fi­ca­tions. But anyway, the whole thing is to me like a great devel­op­ment play­ground where I can make all the sorts of experiments.

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Dealing with algorithms and data structures

July 21st, 2009

One of the rea­sons I haven’t been writ­ing on this blog that much lately is that I’ve been ter­ri­bly busy with uni­ver­sity given that I just cleared out six exams in six months. That said, for one of my three exams that I still have left, I had to develop an infer­ence engine writ­ten in C++. Since this was a fairly large project that had to deal with some sort of NP-​complete prob­lems (see also: uni­fi­ca­tion) and given that this was the first time I wrote some­thing seri­ous in C++ (i.e.: that would involve more than a class and that didn’t con­tain the “Hello world” string) I had the chance to learn quite a few new things.

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My Italian PyCon experience

May 11th, 2009

I came back yes­ter­day from the third Ital­ian PyCon (aka pycon3) which was held in Flo­rence and all I can say is that has been an amaz­ing expe­ri­ence. I had the chance to meet a lot of new great people as well as the BDFL (which won’t be back in Europe for quite some time, as he said). Here fol­lows a resume of what I think were the most inter­est­ing talks.

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Microblogging

Today

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RT @acangiano: RT @BadAstronomer: President Obama kicks off massive science education effort! Woohoo! Spread the word: http://is.gd/51Y7o [krat]
11:49pm via Twitter

Yesterday

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I'd love to find something better than rsync to manage quite a lot of PDFs (> 100) over several machines [krat]
5:18pm via Twitter

November 22nd

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something's very wrong with my wifi network today, I keep losing 20% of packets and I don't know why (was working just fine until yesterday) [krat]
7:21pm via Twitter

November 21st

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weekends are boring [krat]
7:32pm via Twitter

November 20th

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my spanish is getting better [krat]
6:49pm via Twitter

November 19th

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is it me or The Internet is painfully slow today? [krat]
1:52pm via Twitter
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there's fog out there [krat]
11:54am via Twitter
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oooh, I'm part of a beta group who can see the new retweet stuff, or at least so says the banner. Except that it's everything like yesterday [krat]
8:58am via Twitter

November 18th

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I just discovered @JinniDotCom and I already love it [krat]
11:48am via Twitter

November 17th

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Oracle it's certainly among the most over engineered softwares ever (as well as being as slow as a snail) [krat]
1:06pm via Twitter

November 16th

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trying to work around audio issues with pulse, the sound system has always been a black beast to me (not worse than the mail stuff though) [krat]
7:44pm via Twitter

November 13th

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I might hate object oriented DBMS [krat]
12:18pm via Twitter

November 10th

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the power has gone twice in the last hour, not really nice. [krat]
6:12pm via Twitter

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