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Chromium for Mac Reached Version 3.0.198

Diego Caravana — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:35:55 +0000

The last build of Chromium for Mac has version number 3.0.198 (the previous one I’ve seen was 0.1), so the question: has Chrome reached a stability, can we hope to see it soon on our Macs? Anyone?

A simple SimpleDB use case

Diego Caravana — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:17:03 +0000

I’m happy to say that I had the chance to use Amazon AWS for a project of my customer Deltatre. The news is particularly good because it offers a real argument in the “use or don’t use it” debate, and offers practical innovation to the company. Technically, we decided to go on with SimpleDB during the development [...]

Apache, SSL/TSL and SNI status

Diego Caravana — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:00:31 +0000

I’m trying to host my handful of web sites on Amazon, but in EC2 machines there’s support for only one IP (private and public) and, as you know, SSL/TLS encryption let you have only one domain name per IP address: this is a heavy limit (with a reason), but it’s unacceptable for some reasons (public [...]

500.000 ebooks gratis da Google per Sony Reader

Diego Caravana — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:59:17 +0000

L’annuncio è importante: Google, grazie al progetto Google Book Search, ha messo a disposizione gratuitamente tutta la sua collezione di libri di pubblico dominio, ma solo per Sony Reader. Per accedere a questa enorme libreria, bisogna scaricare il software apposito dal Sony eBook Store (che, però, si può installare in Italia solo con un trucco, vedi [...]

Google Chrome Mac Builds

Diego Caravana — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:13:40 +0000

Here you can find the builds of Chromium (the open source project on which Google Chrome is built) for Mac OS X that the fine guys at Google are preparing for us. Waiting for an official version of Chrome (and for Firefox 3.1), let’s continue the browsers’ war on features and not on the garbling of [...]

Blogengine.NET Textile Extension

Diego Caravana — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:27:02 +0000

An extension to add Textile support to Blogengine.NET, directly derived from the Markdown extension by Alexander Schuc (who I thank a lot). To download it click here.

Lightweight Microsoft.NET Process Debugging in Production Environments

Diego Caravana — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:10:54 +0000

Everyone is aware of the problem of discovering the causes of a bug when it’s only present in one environment and, if it’s Production, the problem is even bigger, even if you have a solid error logging system in place. Recently we faced this same situation and we didn’t have any clues to help us, only [...]

The Italian iPhone Scandal

Diego Caravana — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:16:48 +0000

Just today, on the announced first day of iPhone 3G on the market, the Italian “competitive spirit” has struck again: it seems that Vodafone and TIM have “agreed” to maintain prices of the iPhone ridiculously high; luckily someone has noticed it and reported it to the antitrust agency, which will monitor now possible violations of [...]

Bilingual Support

Diego Caravana — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:05:13 +0000

From today my blog supports more than a languade, English and Italian. The reason behind this addition is that I felt a bit uncomfortable writing only in English some posts that I would like to be read also in my language, to support the diffusion of technologies and ideas that I think about as important in [...]

Ratings!

Diego Caravana — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:13:08 +0000

Recently I noted that I do not have a lot of comments on my blog (around 60 on 120 posts from 2003) but anyway I would like to some more feedback, so I installed the very-well-done plugin WP-PostRatings: now even my lazier reader can rate any post or page with only one click! [...]

A Case of Architectural Refactoring

Diego Caravana — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:13:55 +0000

Some weeks ago one of my customers decided that one of its biggest ASP.NET web intranet projects needed a sort of architectural revision, mainly to support better its customers with built-in fault tolerance but also to unchain development of the various sub-projects through better separation between software modules. By “architecture” I mean a broad concept that [...]

The analysis phase: time to grow up?

James Kerr — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:23:57 +0000

When small software companies get bigger they embark on what can be a bumpy ride of change. One of those changes will probably be to do with the way they tackle the analysis phase of the software development life-cycle (SDL). Just to be clear, when I say “analysis phase”, I mean the part before coding [...]

Welcome to James Kerr

Diego Caravana — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:19:50 +0000

I welcome James Kerr, a friend of mine and a colleague, on my blog: he’ll write about requirements engineering and systems analysis, i.e. about everything that should be done before starting to write code (in the agile world, too, even if with less rigidity). It is my hope that more of my friends will follow James [...]

Clouds Evolve: Dealing with Infrastructure Complexity

Diego Caravana — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:00:30 +0000

As expected, at least by me, Amazon EC2 is evolving in a more “concrete” platform good for web hosting; in fact, some time ago I received a mail from AWS announcing two new features: Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones (you read for sure the news also on Slashdot: Amazon EC2 Now More Ready for [...]

Amazon EC2 will get persistent storage

Diego Caravana — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:30:12 +0000

Only a small note to let you know that Amazon is hearing us and added a new feature to EC2: persistent storage. As a subscriber of AWS services yesterday I received an email in which Amazon announces that we “will be able to create volumes ranging in size from 1 GB to 1 TB, and will [...]