Posted in Open Source on September 28, 2006 | No Comments »
A week ago I gave a presentation in the Open Source track at the italian AICA 2006 congress, talking about a software evaluation methodology developed during the course of the OITOS project. The presentation had to be very short (12 to 15 minutes, later cut to 10 because of a late start of sessions) and [...]
Posted in Wordpress.com on September 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
…could you provide a button in the editor toolbar to tag selected text with tt or equivalent? For computer related posts I find that fiddling directly with HTML source to make code look typefaced in fixed width fonts interrupts my writing flow, and at best is an unecessary step at the end of editing an [...]
Posted in Python, Ruby on September 26, 2006 | 5 Comments »
After installing Planet Venus on a Mac OS X machine following a brief tutorial, it occurred to me that in the past months I have been using a bunch of useful Python applications, such as ViewVC, Trac, Bazaar and Venus itself; also, I started to collect information about Django by reading tutorials and skimming through [...]
Posted in Tea on September 24, 2006 | No Comments »
A cup of Ceylon Orange Pekoe (by Twinings) around 2 o’clock in the morning, brewed at La Rocca, a pub restaurant in Cattolica. Unfortunately, I made it suffer from too much lemon desease, and its main flavor got covered. I had a sip of Darjeeling, too; but it suffered from the same disease as well. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 8, 2006 | No Comments »
Did you know about minuend and subtrahend?
