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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finally some good news today, hopefully there will be more in the next few days [krat]
5:21pm via Twitter

February 6th

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seems like there's no way to run matplotlib.pyplot without an X server running (looks like this can be only done using raw matplotlib) [krat]
9:22am via Twitter

February 5th

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finally got rid of firefox, it's slowness was irritating at the very least [krat]
4:26pm via Twitter
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still waiting for the results of one of my last two exams... [krat]
8:10am via Twitter

February 4th

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dealing with slow generation of very large arrays [krat]
6:33pm via Twitter
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writing my thesis [krat]
4:25pm via Twitter

February 2nd

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soccer match tonight, considering how cold is outside I should consider playing with wool pants [krat]
6:39pm via Twitter

February 1st

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yesterday I saw avatar: special effects were amazing (and worth the ticket price) but the story plot just couldn't buy me [krat]
8:18pm via Twitter

January 30th

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Lately I have to fight against myself to find motivation in programming. Dunno what's happening, really. [krat]
6:21pm via Twitter

January 29th

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approved two expenses in the last two days in the name of culture: bought a jazz cd yesterday and a book today [krat]
5:53pm via Twitter

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