Ukraine War brings pain, blood and a lot of human losses.

Ukraine War brings also a spike in cyber attacks, perhaps because Russian is using it like a weapon to destabilize Europe and Ukraine.

In this scenario, it is crucial to enforce your security protocols. My Company started to install a Microsoft extension to remove admin access to all employs laptop, and installed a new set of anti-malware services.

Hosting a Git repository can be a strong need if you want to keep your projects outside the cloud providers.

Keep in mind security offered by GitHub, GitLab and Cloud providers like AWS, MS-Azure, etc are damn good (often offering 2FA, two factor authentication, for free) , so think twice before deciding to hosting your own git server. It is a good shot if you do not plan to expose it to Internet, otherwise the expertise required to secure it, it is not trivial.

This weekend I enjoyed with NTT Hackathon. We developed a Microsoft Kinetic-powered store: you can see objects, consult a catalog via arm swipe, and order 3D prints via hand claps. 3D Printing was powered by OctoPrint after a bad experience with SkyForge. We hope SkyForge will be production-ready in a couple of software-iterations (their lack of a full WebService API is simple to fix).

NTT and some partners, in a late paper to the ECOC 2012, show a successful transmission of 1 petabit per second data transfer over a 12-core optical fiber 52.4 km long.

I admit it: I hate xml square brackets dancing orgy, even in Java.

Anyway, all is xml-ized around me. So in 2006 I developed a small XML parser based on SAX. It was a shitty dirty code for JDK 1.4 which let you parse xml stuff defining a method and forgetting about selectors, XPath,  XWing, Tie fighters and so on…