Incoming talks

September 16th, 2006

October will be a month full of events:

  • On 17th, October, I’ll be (hopefully) in Pisa attending the nss06 conference;
  • On 24-25-26th October I’ll attend a VoIP & Networking conference in Bari, at the Sheraton Hotel;
  • On 28th October I’ll hold a talk in the italian linux day, probably about vectorial graphic using inkscape.

If you’ll be in one of these events please let me know!

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Reboot the homepage

September 6th, 2006

Usually works in this way: you open the home page of your site and you’re tired of seeing always the same graphic and the same layout. Then you want to do a redesign but this rarely hap­pens, since it requires a lot of time and you don’t have enough.
The ques­tion is: does this redesign is really needed? 95% of it doesn’t.

Doing the redesign of your own site requires big efforts both in time and in money terms, since from time to time, when you’re the devel­oper of your­self, you never know when you really done the work. This hap­pens, at least to me, very often. I do a site, then after two or three weeks I would to redesign it since its layout just bored me.

The matter is that many times this work is unneeded and undesidered. It’s not rare to see some very nice and orig­i­nal design dis­ap­pear after not so much time because the author decided its time to burn the old design and to do another one.

This word​press.com host­ing doesn’t allow to change the css (if you don’t pay a15$ fee), so the prob­lem doesn’t exists for this blog, but exists for many other sites I have.

So, what do you think about this? Is this just a my own prob­lem or it is a wider one?

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Moved

September 2nd, 2006

I moved the blog from blogspot to word​press.com. Why? Well, I have sev­eral reasons.

First, blogspot is not really cus­tomiz­able: apart from to edit the tem­plate you can’t add or modify any exist­ing item. You can’t make sub­sec­tions, you can’t sort the posts by cat­e­gory, you can’t tag any­thing. That should be enough, but it isn’t.

You can’t post pass­worded items, you can’t give your feed­back a dif­fer­ent url in an easy way, you can’t do many (many and many and many) things you can, instead, do with word​press.com.

So here I am, update your book­marks and follow me. This hoster also have a nice fea­ture, I imported all the blogspot old posts here with a simple wizard.

In next days I’ll fix the miss­ing items (for exam­ple most of the images are miss­ing, they’re hosted on blogspot and looks like if they put some kinda filter to pre­vent the images being accessed from other hosts), so con­tinue vis­it­ing me…

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Microblogging

  • Funny thing: yesterday night I had an idea about a good blog post I could make. But now I completely forgot what that idea was about. 12 hours ago #
  • I think pownce has a little issue with caching since if I delete a message and I write a new one, it doesn't appear in my homepage. Nov 16, 6:34pm #
  • I didn't know that something like [(x,y) for x in range(10) for y in range(x)] was possible in Python. Nov 16, 3:45pm #
  • I'm about to go to the local LUG dinner: pizza for everyone. Nov 14, 9:15pm #
  • Lately I've been very interested in fast data structures with minimum memory usage. Just surprised to find out that list comprehension in Python are sometimes slower for large quantities of data than classic for loops. Still trying to understand why (if someone has a clue, please let me know). Nov 12, 12:44pm #
  • So wordpress was silently modifying HTTP request headers and I was getting a 400 when fetching Pownce RSS. Now everything works as expected on my blog, shame on WP. Nov 9, 3:58pm #
  • Experimenting with document language identification. Nov 6, 10:23pm #
  • So looks like I finally found an interesting topic apart from web development: information retrieval. Nov 3, 5:13pm #
  • Planning a trip to Bologna in December Nov 1, 5:24pm #
  • After today, I want to go as far as I can from Italy. Oct 29, 11:49am #

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