Nel 2011, per studiare node js creai un progetto chiamato OrgModeParser. Org Mode è un package per l’editor Emacs, ed è pensato per tenere note strutturate, pianificare progetti con una schedulazione, mantenere una lista di cose da fare e generare poi documenti word o html da tali file in modo piuttosto efficace. Il package è …
In ambito Open source vi sono innumerevoli licenze disponibili. Quali sono le loro differenze salienti? Come orientarsi? In questo breve articolo diamo una serie di indicazioni e spunti di riflessione.
Al giorno d’oggi si hanno tanti account, con tante password. Più una password è diversa dalle altre meglio è. Ma come proteggerle, evitando di segnarne sempre il meno possibile? Sotto MacOSX c’è il Keychain, ovviamente incompatibile con windows e linux. Grazie a questo articolo, ho scoperto che emacs ha una serie di integrazioni con i …
Several years ago I had the need of keep in sync three computers. After some questions on a java mailing list, a very smart guy suggested me Unison. Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or …
Slashdot underlines there are too much forks of MySQL on the way. After leaving MySQL, Michael “Monty” Widenius started its own code fork, backed up with a company. The nerds think the destiny of MySQL is unclear, but it is still too early to get a clear vision. After acquisition of Sun by Oracle, it …
Some times ago I have the lucky to read “Producing Open Source Software“: […] a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. The book is released under an open copyright: it is available in bookstores …
The Gioorgi.com’s Knowledge Base is a new service provided to readers. The Knowledge base arranges tips & tricks scattered on the web, and based on the Giovanni Giorgi’s IT consulting experience. The information are mostly based on open source technology, but also commercial products are described. Albeit knowledge base born as a small random “basket …
At Gioorgi.com, after working with a lot with software for over twenty years, we have envisioned a clear idea about open source. This is the second article of a series tagged “opensource”: the previous one is Open Source for the infrastructure; in such article we started to do some tiny consideration of the destiny of …
In the previous article we introduced the reader to the bug tracking tools. In this article we will analyze Mantis, an open source bug tracking tool It is very important to stress you are going to use much more time to set up an open source bug tracking tool. A fraction of this time is …
At Gioorgi.com, after working with a lot with software for over twenty years, we have envisioned a clear idea about open source. This is the first article of a series tagged “opensource”: let’s start! Richard Stallman Vision, based on GNU open source idea, is too radical from our point of view. Stallman GNU License is based …
