Archive for April, 2007
I am smalltalk
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Random Stuff
I stumbled upon a web-quiz, and I pleasantly discovered I’m smalltalk 
links for 2007-04-27
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Del.icio.us
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It gave me the shivers.
The results of a micro iteration: Planet Nimboo
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Nimboo, Productivity, Programming, Ruby
Following the announcement on bard’s blog, I would like to show you the result of the micro iteration I wrote about a couple of days ago: Planet Nimboo.
We use it to aggregate our blogs, and it’s quite simple, it’s only a ruby script with an erb template (how long since you last saw .rhtml files without rails? ), and bard has also cleaned up the code and made it available so you can play with it and make it better:
links for 2007-04-24
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Del.icio.us
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Could be the beginning of a revolution?
OpenCoffee and Italy. Part 2 and good news.
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Business, Italy, OpenCoffee
I was quite happy when I read this post on Marco Barulli’s blog. As he said on his comment to is italy ready for opencoffee? he went to an OpenCoffee meeting in London, where he demoed the wonderful Clipperz, and the response has been quite favorable.
This is just a small piece of evidence that adds to all the evidence I have about a simple but true statement: “Italy is ready for venture capital yet no one does anything”.
Will we ever be able to solve this problem? Live and see.
links for 2007-04-20
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Del.icio.us
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Another great, albeit Italian, resource on how to improve your font experience in Ubuntu
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These tips are well thought out, I have to implement some of them.
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An in-depth review of a book I’m quite scared of buying.
Geeks at Work: Feisty Fawn and the missing window borders with Beryl
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Geeks at Work, Linux, Ubuntu
Welcome to the post with the longest title on A Tempest of Thoughts
Today I upgraded my linux development box tu Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn, mainly because I read it run Beryl out of the box. Unfortunately “out of the box” means “not your box, intinig”, and I had Beryl crashing on me and leaving me without window borders and unable to drag anything.
While trying to understand what was happening I opened a terminal window and it was blank. I was lucky I rememberd my previous post, and the fix worked even for the window borders.
As they say, “3D Desktop for teh win!!1!”, big kudos to Ubuntu for their unbelievable development pace.
Micro Iterations: How to boost your productivity
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Nimboo, Productivity, Programming
I have found a way to boost my productivity, and I can say without doubt it works very well
Like most of you I have dozens of pet projects that can be done very quickly but require focused time, and time is the scarcest resource of them all, so together with my friend bard, and the other nimboo guys we decided to dedicate a hour, two or three times a week to work together on some project, with the condition that we have to choose something that can be done in a hour, no more.
The results have been staggering and yesterday we met together to work on planet.nimboo.net, an aggregator for the nimbooers’ blogs. In half a hour planet was up and running
If you have a couple of friends to do this kind of exercises together please try creating some small product together, you’ll be happy you did.
links for 2007-04-18
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Del.icio.us
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A sort of Risk! variation that robbed me of one hour of work
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Drupal + vBulletin integration, I’m ashamed I’m phping again
links for 2007-04-17
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Del.icio.us
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Really nice erlang tutorial by Dave Thomas.