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And even this year, the Lin­ux­Day is gone. This year we attracted more than 400 people and, as the other years, it has been an amaz­ing expe­ri­ence!
So, thanks to all the vis­i­tors, to the LUG­Bari and to every­one else has con­tributed to make yes­ter­day a great day.

Addi­tion­ally, I pub­lished the slides of my yesterday’s pre­sen­ta­tion. If you’re inter­ested, you can freely down­load them, but please note that they’re writ­ten in ital­ian. You can found the PyGTK talk’s slides here, while the PyClutter’s slides can be found here (sources here and here).

It’s 2007. And it’s Octo­ber. And there’s the Lin­ux­Day this year too.
For those who doesn’t know, the Lin­ux­Day is a day where every LUG pro­mote Linux and the free soft­ware phi­los­o­phy to every­one who’s interested.

Last year I had a talk about Inkscape and the vec­to­r­ial graphic; this year, instead, I’ll hold two talks: an intro­duc­tion to PyGTK and an intro­duc­tion to PyClutter.

So, if you don’t have any­thing to do on Octo­ber 27th and you live near Bari, why don’t you join us in the LinuxDay?

(the title is a quote from a Tarantino’s film, do you like it?)

If you, like me, are about to hold a pre­sen­ta­tion and you’re writ­ing this pre­sen­ta­tion in LaTex (with beamer), and you want to change the para­graph spac­ing (or the so called inter­line), all you have to do is to put this line some­where in your document:

\setlength{\parskip}{10pt plus 1pt minus 1pt}

and after this line, all the para­graph will have the chosen inter­line (of course, you need to adjust the para­me­ters accord­ing to your needs).

As above, when you’re both a col­lec­tor and a pro­gram­mer, strange things could happen. I’m a beer coaster col­lec­tor and my col­lec­tion now reached 250+ unique items so it became a bit a mess to keep that well organized.

So that’s why a devel­oped Beer­Coaster man­ager. Yes, I done a pro­gram that help me to keep my col­lec­tion orga­nized. It is still a bit rudi­men­tary but does its job pretty well. So, if you’re a beer coaster col­lec­tor like me, you’ll found this useful.

It’s writ­ten in Python and uses sqlite as data­base to store it’s infor­ma­tions, so it is portable across var­i­ous plat­forms (i.e.: you can copy & paste your files from Linux to Win­dows and it will keep working).

Cur­rently, it can be down­loaded only by SVN and it is every­thing but stable. I hope to release some­thing good within the end of year.

The project home­page is hosted on Google project: http://​bcman​ager.​google​code.com/

Get­ting it work­ing under Win­dows, cur­rently, is really hard: for the final releases, though, I should pro­vide a Win­dows installer.