February 2012
2 posts
Rabari - Encounters With the Nomadic Tribe
One of my greatest passions (and sometimes also work) is photography. I don’t like one particular kind of photography, I like landscape photography as much as I like portrait photography, the important thing is to give to the viewer a message, a feeling or information. If you would see my entire photo archive you will notice a thing, I like different cultures. Every year I travel abroad...
January 2012
1 post
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cakePHP from a Rails developer point of view
It was much time I was curious to try another MVC framework (using a different programming language). Today I had time so I looked a bit cakePHP.
For what I found online cakePHP is one of the best MVC framework available on PHP, it’s “the Ruby on Rails on PHP”
Just for curiosity I followed a cakePHP tutorial to understand differences between Ruby on Rails (that I know very...
December 2011
1 post
November 2010
1 post
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I moved to Wordpress →
After some thinking I decided to move to Wordpress, you can find me at http://dallangelo.com/blog
October 2010
8 posts
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My (awful) mediatemple experience
Some days ago I decided to try mediatemple (ve) server looking a place where migrate some my clients, I signup and ordered a 512 MB (ve) server, it costs 30$/month, a bit pricey respect other competitors but I was curious to try mediatemple and I was convinced by their website and their Support promise.
After placing my order I waited for my VPS and after 15 minutes (more or less) I got...
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Tumblr API
Some time ago I did a ruby script to generate my home page that uses tumblr API to generate sitemap for search engines.
When I develop script for automatic operations I consider every possible error and I send it to me via email (so I’m alerted on problems and why they happened).
In the last days tumblr API seems to stop working in the night, from the evening to the morning I get email...
mirRoR Placement: Ruby on Rails recruiters for RoR... →
Looks promising .. but just for USA :)
nu7hatch's gmail at master - GitHub →
It’s nice to be able to manage gmail account in Ruby .. but I don’t know what to do with it :)
Is it Hard? Or Do You Just Don’ Wanna «... →
Nice read!
Postbox + Spamsieve
Great news! If you read my last post about Postbox 2 I wrote that one issue was the non-integration with Spamsieve (software I really love) .. somebody heard me and today, reading the changelog of the new version of Postbox, I read that Postbox now supports Spamsieve!!! :D
You will able to use Spamsieve soon! I’m happy :D
htty, the HTTP TTY →
A nice gem .. but I’m not sure when to use it .. I’m used with curl :)
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Postbox 2
When I bought Blackberry Bold 9700 I had to re-enable ‘All mail’ IMAP directory in my Gmail account and it caused not few problems with Mail.app. Googling around I didn’t found a solution, BB wants ‘All mail’ but it causes problem with Mail.app .. I had two possible solutions, change Blackberry or change Mail.app .. obviously I chose the second one! First I used...
September 2010
2 posts
topfunky's sinatra-geoip at master - GitHub →
A nice (and little) webapp to get info about an ip address
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First impressions on Blackberry Bold 9700
I switched to Blackberry by ten days (more or less) and I didn’t belive to get so much satisfaction from it!
It’s really a great phone, battery life time is incredible (up to 3 days with wifi always on and on intensive usage), software is really robust, I still never had a problem.
The only problem (but it’s not an issue) I noticed is when there is an high network activity (for...
August 2010
5 posts
Hello Blackberry Bold 9700!
It took some time but now I have abandoned Nokia E71 and hated Vodafone Mail for a Blackberry Bold! :)
textmate's lua.tmbundle →
A useful textmate bundle for Lua language
Font Squirrel →
I’m re-designing my website and I found this tremendous useful site! It generates font-face code and all needed files! Great!
CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE →
Really interesting!
Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s IP-based... →
Interesting reading!
July 2010
3 posts
Designing Style Guidelines →
It’s a great article! Very useful to work in team and also as a self-reminder :)
Vodafone Mail (bis)
In the last post I told you why I hate Vodafone Mail. Yesterday I updated firmware of my Nokia E71 (after the update I have to re-install Vodafone Mail application) and (no surprise for me), the application does not install on the new firmware! There is a problem with certificate!
I told you before “don’t choose Vodafone Mail” and I’m here to repeat it! DON’T CHOOSE...
June 2010
9 posts
I HATE Vodafone Mail
My mobile is a Nokia E71, I was one of the firsts buyer of this phone. It is not so bad, it has some troble to get network (as every Nokia I had) but it works “not bad”.
With my work I have to receive email 24/7 so I called Vodafone Italia and I took the fabulous “Vodafone Mail” (aka mail push). I had to install a small client “Vodafone Mail” in order to use...
Wordpress 3
I read anything many time ago, recently Wordpress released his version 3 and I’m curious to try it a bit :)
The new version has many improvements and Wordpress did a short video to illustrate them, it’s short and interesting, you have to see it :)
Olaf & Stern - Spazio Forma (Milano) →
Un interessantissimo articolo del Corriere della Sera riguardo due mostre allestite presso lo Spazio Forma a Milano. (Grazie Fede)
iOS 4
Today Apple released iOS 4 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Sadly my first generation iPod touch is not in the supported devices list :(
Aviary →
It’s by long I know Aviary, I used it sometimes and I was always happy to use it.
Recently they have released a new tool, a tool to create music, it’s incredible what they do :)
It’s just a pity that they use flash and not html5 :)
Apple Mail.app vs Mozilla Thunderbird
When i switched to mac (more than 5 years ago) I changed computer, I changed operating system and I changed email client too. In linux and windows I used Mozilla thunderbird and I was satisfied with it, when I switched to Apple Mail.app I didn’t notice any problem so I decided to use it in the last years.
Now I’m thinking about to switch again to Mozilla Thunderbird. In the lastmonths...
Second feedback of my new Mac Book Pro
Some days ago my new Mac Book Pro 17” (i7) arrived, so now I can give you my feedback after some day-to-day usage.
First of all I’m really happy of this mac, it has ‘the good’ of the old (17” core 2 duo), it has some new ‘good’ but it has also some bads.
Some thinkings:
- I love the improved battery life (I really got a HUGE increase of battery life...
Prefetch content with html5 →
Really itneresting! :)
May 2010
9 posts
Ubuntu 10.04 look and feel
I’m a mac user, I use mac everyday for many hours .. but when I installed latest Ubuntu (10.04) I said ‘wow!’.
The look and feel is really gorgeous!
It’s better than osx in my opinion :)
I would switch but .. I haven’t still found a good editor in Linux :(
Try it! :)
Boot VMWare Fusion from CD
On my mac I have VMWare Fusion installed with two virtual machines, one windows xp and one linux xubuntu.
I would like to boot xubuntu VM from an ISO but the bios splash screen is really fast on VMWare :)
So I found this trick to force the VM to enter in BIOS configuration.
Go to the VM file, show package content, edit the file .vmx adding this line:
bios.forceSetupOnce = “TRUE”
...
“I hate when I install a gem and it has dependencies that I have not!”
– It’s really stupid! Why install a ruby gem if I can’t use it because you used others gems and you didn’t specify dependencies?!? I have to look at the code! It’s really stupid!
Google Font API →
I really like this tool! It’s useful and confortable, I’m a bit afraid of ‘google dependence’ .. but they offer really useful tools and there aren’t alternatives (or they are worst)
New Mac Book Pro
Hi all!
I became mac user in 2005, I really like macs and today arrived the last one!
The new Mac Book Pro 17” :D
I decided to customize it with Intel Core i7, with 7200 rpm hard disk and with anti glare monitor.
I have just unboxed it so I can’t say anything about that, I’ll tell you anything in the near future. Now I have to set it up (a quite boring thing), but honestly my...
AIDS in Uganda →
You must see this.
Rails Dispatch | Security →
A nice reading about string escaping in Rails3. I knew that all string are escaped in Rails3 but I didn’t get that also the output of helpers will be. It does make sense :)
WatchLemure in Ranomafana National Park (Madagascar)
Came back!
Hi all!
I came back from Madagascar two days ago, great trip and incredible country. I suggest to all to visit it while it’s not so much crowded of turists. If anybody is afraid about security I can say I travelled across many cities and I NEVER felt any dangerous. Just in the biggest market in Antananarivo I wasn’t really confortable with my reflex in the hands (but actually nothing...
April 2010
9 posts
The Adventures of BeetleCam →
Great great post! I had the same idea in the past but I stopped on realization due costs :)
I really like the images, and I’m quite happy to didn’t do it because it cost a Canon 400D :)
Nice work guys!
Bad experience with craghoppers.com
First of all, I have some Craghoppers and I’m really happy with them. But now I won’t buy anything from them!
I ordered two things from their website for my next trip to Madagascar. Both were labelled as ‘available’ and I decided to buy both.
After some days I received an email telling me that 1 item was just shipped. So i asked why the other wasn’t and they told me...
Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again -... →
A really interesting article! In some cases it would be really useful!
Juggernaut →
I found this page in a feed and I thought “looks interesting, check it out!” but I have to admit I’m really impressed, in 3 minutes (thanks to Juggernaut and Rails’s scaffold) I had everything working. And it works! :)
I’m not totally happy because it uses Flash but I really like how easy it is, you have just to drop 3 or 4 commands and you have a connection to all...
"Brand Butlers" →
An interesting article from trendwatching.com about “Brand butlers”
Introduction to EventMachine →
A nice introduction (114 slides!) of EventMachine, an interestign reading :)
Supermodel - ActiveModel in memory →
Today i found this library called Supermodel, it’s useful to have an ActiveModel stored in memory and not in a DB.
It’s interesting to have data in memory with the confortable access by ActiveModel, but I don’t know which is the advantage to use Supermodel instead of using MySQL with MEMORY engine (with its model and ActiveModel obviously).
Anyway an interesting thing, it can...
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Canon Powershot SX210 IS
Hi all!
As I told you before I’m going to do a great trip to Madagascar the 9th of April.
I love photography so I’ll bring with me my Canon EOS 40D & co. But honestly it’s not everytime possible to get DSLR out of the backpack (and in some places it’s not a good idea).
So I decided to buy a small camera for day-to-day use and to use it in some...