Archive for March, 2007
Flickr and Yahoo and WordPress
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Flick, Wordpress, Yahoo
Today I met a bunch of cool people at the Yahoo Italy HQ. I will talk about that in a future post (the very next one), but I had a urge to try Flickr and its integration with wordpress. Let’s see if it works by showing you a picture of my last day in Kyoto in Oct. 2006.
links for 2007-03-29
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Del.icio.us
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Sometimes I go back to this site to have a laugh, but I always forget its name. I better bookmark it
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You have to tag a page where they review one of the best plugins available on the net.
Posting from TextMate: How cool is that?
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Uncategorized
TextMate is a text editor that is widely reknown in the Mac community, especially in the Mac Ruby on Rails community.
It became famous with DHH’s first Rails video, and its usage keeps spreading, together with Rails.
TextMate may not be known as an I do it all editor, like Emacs, but it has some little gems hidden among its features.
A feature I really like is the Blogging Bundle (bundle is the term TextMate extensions are known with). With the Blogging Bundle I can post to my blog, fetch and edit posts, all without leaving my trusty text editor.
It’s not a breathtaking innovation, I bet Emacs already does that, but it’s a nice feature, on my favourite editor, on the Mac, and that makes me happy.
Bonus Picture of the Blogging Bundle
links for 2007-03-28
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Del.icio.us
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A long insightful post about erlang for game servers.
Tagged is a Trojan
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Random Stuff
In these long years of work at a computer I was never conned into launching/accepting/opening a trojan, but tagged got me. Let me spell it cleanly: Tagged is a Trojan.
I’ll change my gmail password right after I submit this post to be sure. I don’t even know how I could give access to so much personal data to a web application I didn’t trust.
For Italian readers: Tagged รจ pessimo.
links for 2007-03-27
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Del.icio.us
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How to write a chat client in Erlang.
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This is a nice tool I never discovered, from The Meyer Man Himself.
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When will anyone start one in Italy?
Language Redirect, an extension for Radiant CMS
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Programming, Radiant, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
While looking through my email I found an email that helped me remember that a couple of months ago, while working on StudioCarone.it I wrote (ported) a simple extension to the wonderful Radiant CMS, language_redirect_extension. The usage is straightforward, just check it out via svn into your extensions directory.
The rest of the extension works like the old language redirect behavior used to do. Drop me a mail at info AT tempe DOT st if you have any problems or if you need more detailed instructions.
Erlang and Poker
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Erlang, Programming
Just when I started writing some poker odds analysis code in Erlang, a friend sent me this link. Sometimes it looks like the Universe really wants you to do something, isn’t it?
links for 2007-03-23
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Del.icio.us
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A post I made on the site5 forum to help people deploy with capistrano there.
Bread and Butter vs The Big Project
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Business, Italy
A month or so ago I had the luck of being able to talk with Marco Palombi, one of the few Italian enterpreneurs that have succeded.
It was a pleasant and inspiring experience, mostly because I discovered that he encountered the same problems we all do, but was able to overcome them. What hit me like a rock though, was the fact that he didn’t earn a single cent for five years. That’s an important fact that shows success doesn’t come with zero effort. You have to believe so much in what you do that you’re willing to risk five years of your life to reach the goal you set for yourself.
Unfortunately strong beliefs are not all that’s needed. You have to find a way to sustain yourself while you work on your big projects, and I have to resort to bread and butter jobs to earn what I need to go on with my life.
I think there are many people among you that are in the same situation and struggle daily trying to balance those jobs with what you really would like to do. Sometimes b&b jobs are well paid, sometimes they’re interesting too, but they are no substitute for the rush of energy you get when you work on your own projects.
In the South of Italy this situation exacerbates, because b&b projects aren’t well paid here, and you have to work more for less money, and that’s not an ideal situation.
Sometimes I think I would be better just dropping unpaid projects, my own brainchildren, and getting some sleep at night, but there’s something in the back of my head that tells me I would not be happy doing that, and time after time I keep listening to that voice.
Maybe, just maybe, that’s the voice of freedom, the freedom of doing what we really like to do, creating cool technologies.