http://gioorgi.com Freedom, economy and information technology. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:49:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 http://gioorgi.com/2010/safari-books-on-line/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/safari-books-on-line/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:10:24 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=4006 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. The O’Reilly’s Safari service lets you buy a monthly subscription right to access more [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/safari-books-on-line/feed/ 1 http://gioorgi.com/2010/mercurial-for-subversion-users/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/mercurial-for-subversion-users/#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:48:04 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3980 Willing to switch to Subversion to Mercurial (you will, belive me!)? Take a look to this link http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Mercurial+for+Subversion+Users and be  happy! ]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/mercurial-for-subversion-users/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/drm-a-trouble-not-a-solution/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/drm-a-trouble-not-a-solution/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:27:41 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3731 “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 [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/drm-a-trouble-not-a-solution/feed/ 2 http://gioorgi.com/2010/web2py-absolute-trouble-shooter/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/web2py-absolute-trouble-shooter/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:36:50 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3702 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 for the yum variant see here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233320/cannot-import-sqlite-with-python-2-6 Install python 2.6, this will avoid the [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/web2py-absolute-trouble-shooter/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/python-functional-programming/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/python-functional-programming/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:00:36 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3650 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. Python offer a huge [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/python-functional-programming/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/why-i-am-starting-to-avoid-facebook/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/why-i-am-starting-to-avoid-facebook/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:48:04 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3574 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 [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/why-i-am-starting-to-avoid-facebook/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/django-1-2/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/django-1-2/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:00:55 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3625 Django Project, a powerful and clean Python Web Framework, is going to relase 1.2 as  the next milestone at the beginning of March. For the meanwhile, you can grab the Beta2: As part of the Django 1.2 release process, tonight we’ve released Django 1.2 beta 1, a preview/testing package that gives a little taste of some of [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/django-1-2/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/pyro/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/pyro/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:01:42 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3569 One of the best thing of scripting languages like Python is the ability to fast prototype complex things. In the past ten years, if you like to build distributed application you was forced to use huge and heavily languages like Java. On Python there is a nice library called Pyro, which used with success: Pyro is short [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/pyro/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/clojure-review/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/clojure-review/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:04:48 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3172 Book review by Stefano Fago: This book introduce one of most interesting  language of new wave of functional programming. You will find a complete overview of clojure language focusing in functional paradigm that can be the real obstacle for a standard developer. The author try to follow you on learning different subject with a lot of [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/clojure-review/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/ngee-khiong-search-results-for-daitarn/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/ngee-khiong-search-results-for-daitarn/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:02:43 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3577 This metal toy is on my whishlist!! :) For other daitarn toys, look at Ngee Khiong: Search results for daitarn. ]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/ngee-khiong-search-results-for-daitarn/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/web-testing-tools/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/web-testing-tools/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:00:59 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3316 Testing is important. Testing web interfaces is difficult, and often your consultant company prefer to suggest you a manual-based testing. But is it so difficult to do automatic web testing using open source software? Let’s give a look to two nice web testing software Warning: this article is still in progress: it has been published for getting comments all [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/web-testing-tools/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/the-revamp-of-gioorgi-com/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/the-revamp-of-gioorgi-com/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:10:39 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3514 The English New Year Intro: Hi all readers, the last reports show the lack of articles was a major issue for Gioorgi.com My time was heavily compressed by my forthcoming baby (I will dad in a few months guys!). Also my Job as Senior Consultant required a lot of my energy. Gioorgi is bi-lingual, so the English guys can expect [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/the-revamp-of-gioorgi-com/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2009/twitter-on-gioorgi/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/twitter-on-gioorgi/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:48:19 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3399 We have just enabled the Twitter -Gioorgi integration, so you can keep following us also via twitter! With also mobile (iphone-like) integration, you can follow us easily! ]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/twitter-on-gioorgi/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2009/managing-cluster-of-unix-machines-part3-speed-setup/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/managing-cluster-of-unix-machines-part3-speed-setup/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:58:22 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3335 Setting up a bunch of Linux machines is easier now, thank to company like http://turnkeylinux.org/ At Gioorgi.com we have the need to setup a tiny box with PHP Mysql and a bunch of unix utilities, to automate common tasks. We took one of the TurnKey iso, and then we customized it via the apt-* utilities. Let’s see [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/managing-cluster-of-unix-machines-part3-speed-setup/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2009/observer/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/observer/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:36:39 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=221 Every Year, Giovanni consider some “trends”  based on his consultant experience. This trends have been gathered in the last six months, and are printed  at regular basis. This thoughts  are note merely “preference”, but are strong opinions based on IT firms products, cleared by buzz-words and soap-opera-like scoop (like “Wired”  bad ideas are :). CMS Market is still [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/observer/feed/ 1