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

Yesterday

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wow, inbox 0 after almost an year [#]
8:35pm via Twitter
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my internet connection is painfully slow today [#]
8:13pm via Twitter
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I finally came to the conclusion that if I use XML as a solution for a problem, then probably there's something very wrong in the middle [#]
12:31pm via Twitter
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A lot of water is falling down from the sky (aka it's raining quite a lot) [#]
10:36am via Twitter

November 5th

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thinking about a way to kill threads that are taking way too much time without leaving resources, locks and whatnot busy [#]
6:21pm via Twitter

November 4th

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back from a lovely evening with my best friend [#]
8:10pm via Twitter

November 3rd

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is it normal that It's two days have strong headache on the left brain's emisphere? [#]
8:13pm via Twitter
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I've just noticed that at day n I'm using google wave always more than the day n - 1 [#]
1:39pm via Twitter
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If I had time, I'd put trying unladen swallow on the top of the TODO list [#]
12:51pm via Twitter

November 1st

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Liked 2 stories.
8:36pm via Reddit
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I hate flash. Especially when it keeps the audio socket open [#]
5:21pm via Twitter

October 30th

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fever. damn fever. [#]
6:13pm via Twitter

October 27th

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looks like twitter died to me for some minutes [#]
1:33pm via Twitter

October 26th

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...except it was Miles Davis. Still thinking about the previous album I listened to: Giant steps [#]
7:59pm via Twitter
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Reading about algorithm design with "Round about midnight" by Coltrane in background. How awesome is that. [#]
7:39pm via Twitter
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Is really that weird to talk about P=NP in a CS department with a friend? They're looking at us like if we were aliens, god bless ignorance [#]
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October 24th

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bye facebook, so long and thanks for all the fish [#]
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