Domani 31 marzo si svolgera persso l’ Università Bicocca Milano l’incontro per ri-progettare italia.it il portale italiano che ha fatto tanto discutere in questo ultimo periodo. Italia.it è il portale italiano che dovrebbe fungere da portale per il turismo, peccato che dopo lo stanziamento di migliaia di euro sia venuto una mezza schifezza. Seguendo la […]

Ecco un buon modo per validare il codice php durante la migrazione da php4 a php5 find /source/directory -name \*.php -o -name \*.inc | xargs -n1 php -ddisplay_errors=1 -derror_reporting=8191 -l

Couple of years ago I tried to write something in prolog. I thought about doing the classical syllogism about Socrates (the one about mortality) but in a sudden illumination I wanted to recreate a classical sketch from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). So the requirements to “get” the jokes are that […]

A nice PDF poster with all gazillion WS standards. They can even send it to you for the price of shipping. More info here, courtesy of innoQ.

Yes, now I’am a fonero.

Imified is an instant messenger bot that works on the AIM, MSN, GoogleTalk/Jabber (Yahoo IM currently offline) networks and offers access to a growing number of web applications (WordPress, Blogger, GoogleCalendar, MovableType and others), as well as productivity tools like notes, reminders, and todo’s.  Pretty slick.

Every time I see something innovative and creative as this I get the urge to take my degrees and throw them in the trash. Only thinking outside the box can take us to another level of human to computer interaction. The good news is that it seems that we’ll see some frameworks on the desktop […]

I own a Radeon X1600, it’s a medium priced/performance card from ATI that belongs to the X1000 family and whose driver support is coming up gradually since last year. I’ve been waiting for the new drivers that should be out this year with the support for AIGLX for quite some time now and I said […]

Check your knowledge of the GoF design patters by doing this crossword puzzle.