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Ops I did it again. Although I repeatedly said I didn’t love emacs Lisp, I finally managed to learn it. So I want to share with you my tips, to help entering in the Emacs Lisp world in a fast, fun and easy way.

Da Python a Ruby o vicerversa

Jan 12, 2012 · 3 min read

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Preludio

L’ultima volta che ho provato Ruby è stato nell’aprile del 2005. Avevo sviluppato un paio di progetti di test in RubyOnRails, che allora era già produttivo. Ruby era affascinante, ma la libreria base mi sembrava ancora in stato embrionale e lo abbandonai. RubyOnRails non mi è mai sembrato avesse un vantaggio competitivo rispetto a framwork come CakePHP o Python Django.

SQLite alter table

Jul 25, 2010 · 1 min read

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SQLite is a small, powerful embedded database. A friend of mine started using it about six years ago. Some years ago it comes also on top of Python 2.5. It is used inside

FileMaker Bento: its ultra customized model is based on a big sqllite db
DropBox client, to store its internal state
iPhone: stores your SMS and also other stuff. It is widely used by apps.
Apple Safari uses it for HTML5 storage support
Google Gears uses it
...and in a lot of embedded product.

I was annoyed because until version 3.1.3 SQLite did not provide an alter table syntax but… it is quite easy to emulate it with something like this, even if it required a bit of work: