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Cloud Demystification

Diego Caravana — Mon, 09 May 2011 21:37:41 +0000

Something weird and unexpected happened lately: the big Amazon cloud failed. Anyone on any media is talking about it, and everyone is communicating just this sense of surprise. Wait a second and let’s ask to ourselves: why is it weird … Continue reading →

[Personal] Updates

Diego Caravana — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:55:01 +0000

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

URL Shortening

Diego Caravana — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:07:10 +0000

Introduction If you want, you can read everything about URL Shortening on wikipedia (i.e. http://bit.ly/bgkuGT or http://d3w.io/9KilxK or http://➡.ws/蔤囦 ) but I would like to shortly (sorry, pun intended) say a couple of things. The “URL shortener” concept is very … Continue reading →

Ebooks in Italy (?)

Diego Caravana — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:00:50 +0000

Sorry, content only in Italian.

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 … Continue reading →

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: … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Bilingual Support

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

From today my blog supports more than a language, 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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →