Zeta-Puppis.com

And finally here it is: I launched right now this site’s redesign. I haven’t put a lot of work on it but I’m pleased with the final results. I like min­i­mal­ism and mono­chrome designs, and even though this isn’t the most min­i­mal­ist design ever, I think it’s a good com­pro­mise. Taking advan­tage from oppor­tu­nity, I added some new fea­tures to the site (and removed some old ones).

The biggest change is the right column: now inte­grates my pownce feed. I’m still trying to under­stand why it doesn’t show noth­ing but simple posts, but I’ll fix it some­day (that’s not my fault though, I’m using a word­press plugin). And all the stuff that pre­vi­ously were on the right, now are on the very bottom of the page.

Just a couple of rants: I wish this was pow­ered from django and I hate wordpress.

This is a double post: it will be pub­lished on two dif­fer­ent blogs. The great news is that I bought a domain and I have a new hoster, so from now on I’ll pub­lish all my posts on the other blog. The word​press.com plat­form was very restric­tive to me, so I had to move toward a much more com­plete web host­ing platform.

So it’s time to move away again. This time the site will be hosted on friend’s server (thanks!), and I’ll have my own domain. So, please update your book­marks, the new URL is http://​zeta-​pup​pis.com and the feed URL is http://​zeta-​pup​pis.​com/feed/.

I know, you are about to go crazy asking your­self where does your favorite geek gone. No, I’ve not been kid­napped from aliens, nei­ther been raped from a monkey. And no, I’m not about to go on the Moon with Bill Gates.

I just have a lot to do, due to uni­ver­sity and work. I’m cur­rently study­ing to give 5 exams (didn’t passed not even one, yet, but these are just details), study­ing the django appli­ca­tion frame­work and work­ing on two dif­fer­ent php projects for work.

As regards django, I guess I’ll write some­thing down as soon as I’ll learn how to use it better. Because it is an excep­tional project.

And the rumours were right: I’m work­ing on a new per­sonal site, but it will be ready for summer (because it is EXCEP­TIONAL, REV­O­LU­TION­ARY AND MAG­NIFIC, as all the things I do).

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…