Posted in Books, Rails on February 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Gosh. The Rails Book has already been translated in Italian.
I’ve bought the English version, but I’ve not yet had the chance to read it properly. I have just skimmed through it to have a glance at the content. I found an interesting example about how to implement a login feature for the web application used [...]
Posted in Tea on February 19, 2006 | No Comments »
Yesterday, three cups of Sir Winston’s Broken Orange Pekoe. Unfortunately, blended with a generous slice of lemon and sugar, it didn’t taste very different from other more classic tea flavors.
Today, another cup of that Earl Grey I have already tried, and which is starting to grow on me. Unfortunately, I still have to try suggested [...]
Posted in Books on February 15, 2006 | No Comments »
And, as a further example, I have finished reading Edward Tufte’s The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.
Update: Tufte quotes Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph by J. Elsner; specifically, the part where a description of power and its interconnection with manipulation of images is briefly described.
Power is a far more complex and mysterious quality than any apparently [...]
Posted in CLP on February 15, 2006 | 1 Comment »
So, for example, I have written a basic CLP bibliography composed by books and papers I read at the end of 2004 for a part of my thesis which I did not develop further and did not make into the final work. I wonder: is that bibliography complete? Does it feature any superfluous work which [...]
Posted in Blogosphere on February 15, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I have now and write on a so-called corporate weblog also. From now on, probably the majority of technology related entries will be posted up there, and linked from here whenever I feel I would like a greater community to have a look or comment on them. More personal posts will be still placed here. [...]
