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Gioorgi New Look
Sep 1st
At Gioorgi.com, after some thoughts we decided change the site look & feel to take full advantage of the new WordPress 3. Although the two-column layout is always the central + lateral was considered better to read, it was stealing too much space to listings prevented attach images. For this reason we switched to new theme, with the possibility of having one or two columns depending on the context of the article, the theme etc.. The new homepage will stabilize towards the beginning of October, with many new stuff on it. The new Gioorgi.com also changes the motto is now a simple More >
Safari Books On line (English version)
Jul 1st
After a long experience with O’Reilly, we decided to try their service “Safari Books Online”. This article will explore the pros and cons of this courageous service, which we believe will give you many satisfactions.
La versione italiana di questo articolo è disponibile a questo link.
Mercurial for subversion Users
Jun 28th
Willing to switch to Subversion to Mercurial (you will, belive me!)?
http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Mercurial+for+Subversion+Users
and be happy!
Dos to unix in emacs
Mar 23rd
To convert an Emacs buffer from DOS line endings to Unix, type C-x [ENTER] f unix [ENTER].
Php Server Distribution for windows – XAMPP
Mar 18th
XAMPP is a very easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. The package includes the Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, a FTP server and phpMyAdmin.
DRM: a trouble, not a solution
Mar 12th
“With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games.' One can only hope that this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM.”
Web2Py Absolute trouble Shooter
Mar 4th
Do you want develop web applications in a fast, prototype based way using Python?
Follow us and learn how to use web2py….
Step 1: Python 2.6 proper setup
On Linux be sure to install sqlite development library; the following command will help on RedHat:
sudo apt-get install sqlite-devel
Install python 2.6, this will avoid the need of additional libraries.
You will also need openssl, so if you haven’t it issue commands like
sudo apt-get install openssl
and be sure to get also the python wrapper pyOpenSSL hosted here
We happly compiled pyOpenSSL from sources
For more tips and tricks look also at this recipe about More >
Python functional programming
Feb 23rd
This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Programming Languages
This article is a work in progress: it will be expanded by your comments…
Python is a very curios programming languages: it give you classes but also a strong function-oriented environment to play with. So, if you like functional programming (read: you like Lisp and/or Erlang) you should give python a closer look.
Why I am starting to avoid Facebook
Feb 19th
Privacy is important: in the last days I have read the following on Slashdot:
“A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you’ve ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There’s an internal system to let them log into anyone’s profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so.[...]
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