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I am happy to announce Version 1.0 of BWolf my book manager writte in python django. I have just installed it for my first customer. You can grab the 1.0 version from the Subversion repository.

 

This first release basic features are:

• Book categories and topic organization. Books are shown in nice page of 10 elements each.
• Ability to "checkout" books (not yet perfect but it works)
• Ability to create "Events" and to attach books to them (interface will be improved soon).

Happy download!

Estonia is a very wonderful place.

I have thinked it'd be funny to compose a small story about it, instead of the photos alone. So I have done a small "comic adventure" using the fantastic ComicLife product of Plasq. If you have a mac you must try it!

Celeste

Celeste is a mail reading and organizing program. The name "Celeste" is a reference to an earlier mail reader named Baba, which was written at Xerox PARC by Steve Putz and John Maloney.

Nowadays, Celeste is maintained by Giovanni Giorgi (me).

Latest Feature

A new revision is planned for the end of September 2006, and code name will be "Sonic". Sonic will include a smart mailing-list filter and a better "leave message on server" option. I implemented years ago an auto-filtering system in AppleScript. The filtering engine used the RFC2369 and some other tricks to detect yahoo mailing list. Sonic will have also an auto-filter for google mailing list too.

The leave message on server option is quite bad now. It creates a lot of duplicated messages.
The new implementation will avoid dowloading twice a message, using a mix of messageId and timestamp to detect duplicated messages.

Version policy

I have found a misleading versions for celeste. Celeste uses a "versionString" to mark a version in every sent email. versionString labelled something like 2.currentChangeset.
As far as I started mantaining Celeste, we used a lower version (for example 1.23).
To avoid confusion I have started to renmbering all the stuff starting from revision 3.0.

Anyway, the version name is the first thing you should consider. I plan to do very few releases.

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http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ See also http://andreasviklund.com/templates/themes/

https://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi/wiki/AbstractSearching http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/ http://www.istock.com/

The installation was fine. I have some problems with the sqlite3 driver and I ought to switch back to the PostreSQL driver. I initially planned sqlite3 as deployment platform.I have to change my mind after losing over three hours trying to resolve a linking problems on the production machine. By the way with PostgreSQL I will have more powerful exporting capabilities

Biblio Wolf (Bwolf for firends) is a webapp app for managing a book collection. BWolf is written in python using the Django web framework, and it is born from a Customer request. BWolf is open source, and you can get a full description here including links to downloads. I will mantain a blog of all the work I will do. In the last two months I set up a Subversion Repository and played a little with Django.

 

After some testing I opted for the SQLite3 DB in this first phase. SQLite is a database featuring quite full support of SQL92. SQLite lacks of some capabilities for manipulating tables (alter table can be used only to add columns) but has transaction, and is embedded. SQLite consume very little resource.

 

Because the database is self-contained in a binary-indipendent file is quite fast to syncronize my developement environment with the test (and in the future, the production).

Steve is not a normal solution provider.
Steve is the final destination for Project Management troubles.

Let's see how Steve can solve problems

The Ten Steve Rules

1. If you have a customer you can get my attention
2. If your project is run out of time and you need to finish the product yesterday, you will face a disaster. Call me
3. Cannabis programming is too light
4. You cannot offer a Lunch to Steve, unless you have four ticket resturants and at least one more for you
5. Are you saying you need more time to finishing the use case? These are details. If you cannot get it in the required time, I will fire you (Loading a gun): in the real sense.
6. Peace and calm are an useless evil.
7. True Metal Hackerz get the work done in less time then you
8. Linux has a a cold bird as Logo. This is enought to kick it off the project.
9. I prefer Illy over Java, sorry
10. There isn't a tenth rule

Lois Lane is based on Wamber, a blog system made by William McVey and then adapted by Giovanni giorgi (the writer of this note)

I was in Germany this spring. I was in Hambug, Lubeck and Bremen, enjoing a lot.

German people was kind with me.

Yes this is a negative-advertise (sometimes called flame). I get disappointed by "The Super Dimension Fortres" after about 3 years of use. The service was spartan but quite good, and you got lifetime access for only 36$. I also paid for some additional services from time to time. Then in the summer I launched a "vhost" command, to understand how vhost works. I found no manual and no help, so I closed my shell and went to bed.
After some month, the administrator asked me to pay for a VHOST service I never used. Abeit the time passed, I complain about it sending an email. I recieved NO response.
After a month my account was deleted.
I cannot speak with the administrator. I received only silly auto-generated email asking for money.
And by the way no a decent bill evidence.
This total lack of communication and brute-force resolution of a trivial problem is bad. So I must discourage my friends and readers, to AVOID the Super Dimension Fortres service at all.

 

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Hi! I have just finished a special trip di switzerland.
You can watch

my excusions looking here.
We liked a lot the people, very very kindly with us.
The weather was very warm, and we get lost (again!) on the 31th of october, just when Halloween special was carrying out!

We went to Zurich, then we point to Lucern and San Gallo.
Please give me your comments.

I was happy to review a very nice book called "Database in Depth".

Database in Depth Relational Theory for Practitioners

By C.J. Date
First Edition  May 2005 
Pages: 230
Series: Theory In Practice
ISBN 10: 0-596-10012-4 | ISBN 13: 9780596100124

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My Praga 2004 trip was the first made after a long time. I have done a lot of photos and liked it a lot.

The city is very interesting and special. The Ghotic style of Prague is very nice, and I reccomend you to see it in Autumn, for the beautiful colors you can enjoy