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...
March 2010
6 posts
Madagascar
Great news! The 9th of April I’m going to do a trip to Madagascar!
Yuhuuu! :)
Nginx Best Security Practices →
A nice reading about proper nginx configuration
"Rails Upgrade Handbook" released →
I know rails much and with pros and cons I still use it for quite every my project (honestly I use also Sinatra but just for really small projects). Rails3 is coming (it’s at Beta stage) and with the new main version many changes will be necessary. I’m curious about new possibilities but I don’t want to browse many blogs looking for “what is changed in that?!?”.
I...
@font-face →
A nice reading about @font-face .. everytime I think about it (and html5 <video> tag) I can’t understand why some people can’t find a good solution together. To support @font-face you have to prepare 4 different font format (to support different browsers) and the same thing with video about <video> tag … it’s so stupid!
Cherokee Web Server →
This is Cherokee … it’s a “new” web server, from the benchmarks on its website it looks faster than nginx … I’ll try it :)
Twitter on Cassandra →
Nice article! Twitter left MySQL for Cassandra :)
February 2010
7 posts
Chocomize – Customize Your Chocolate →
Interesting service that lets you design your chocolate! Nice idea :)
Support for Sinatra, Rack, and Metals now... →
Great news! Now you can use New Relic to check how your sinatra app works!
I used new relic with rails and I found it a great tool to have valuable information about your app!
I haven’t a running sinatra app that can be interesting to test with new relic but I’m happy for this news!
(I wasn’t paid by new relicto write this post, I really like this tool :) )
Ecosistema dell'innovazione in Italia →
Una panoramica sulla situazione dell’innovazione in Italia da parte di Dettori (dpixel)
Introduzione a LessCSS →
Ho scritto un breve articolo riguardo LessCSS per Stacktrace.it, fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate :)
Tough Guide to work: 5 mistakes smart people make →
An interesting post, nice reading :)
WatchFred Wilson talks trends, advice for startups on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
iPhone Mockup →
An interesting tool for iPhone mockup, nice :)
January 2010
10 posts
Tumblr design
By long I’m using Tumblr for this log, when I decided to use it I got a theme and just changed anything.
The main problem (in my opinion) was that my site dallangelo.com and this site had two different layout/scheme colors/etc.
Starting today they shares the same scheme colors! (Layout can’t be unified .. they are too different) I hope you like it
Nubrella.com →
At the firtst impact I didn’t like it, “it just covers head!” I thought. After some thinking … I realized that an umbrella does the same :)
So it makes sense, an hand-free umbrella … good idea :)
Redesigning the Boarding Pass →
Some really cool examples of boarding pass (here in Italy with low-cost flights we are loosing the habit to get a real boarding pass) :)
Tumblr API problem (not solved)
1 minute after clicking ‘Create post’ (my latest post about solved issues with Tumblr API) I got a fresh error email … :(
Hope this will end soon …
Tumblr API problem
In the past I told you how my website is built, it’s generated every (n) minutes fetching data from various places.
One of these is Tumblr API (used to show my latest post on my tumblog and to create sitemap for my site).
In the last days there were many problems with tumblr API, I suppose because they are working on new features (some of them were released recently).
Now the API issues...