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Moving

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Hello guys, as I will explain in the next post of this Reblog, iWeb isn’t scaling. Yeah, I’m not using it the way Apple would like me to do, but I don’t want no stinky .mac subscription. I know, I know, I’m really sorry to bother you, but you need to update your RSS reader. I’ve just seen that I can use a redirect like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

http://blog.reborg.

Quicksilver Quick Timer

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Hello dear Mac user. If you have Quicksilver installed (if you don’t it’s time to learn how to improve your productivity with one of the many tutorials available) and Growl notifications (even though this is not strictly necessary) the following trick will allow you to create countdown timers on the fly in a few keystrokes. In other words you won’t need to install any specific application or

How do you spend your time?

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

I recently took some time to write down the list of the most important activities during my everyday life. It was needed just to understand a couple of things about my personal planning and by no means was intended to be a comprehensive list. But just ten minutes later and without any effort the list turned out to be a complete one. I wouldn’t say 100% complete, but I think that it represents

AOP Ruby and Aquarium

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

While attending Dean Wampler presentation at ChiRb the last night I failed to understand the reasons why bringing AOP semantic to dynamically typed language can be a good thing. The reason is simple! I never tried aliasing and evals a big Ruby project :) I had just some Python AOP-like experience in the past using the language meta-programming facilities and it was not such a big pain.

More power to JSONP with Subspaces

Monday, October 1, 2007

At the last World Wide Web conference, Collin Jackson and Helen Wang presented an interesting paper where they explain how to sandbox the dynamic evaluation of JSON inside an inlined frame. Second interesting aspect of the document is that they group together the description of many enabling cross-domain techniques, thus creating a valuable well-written reference.

The reason you might want

Available JSONP Services?

Monday, September 17, 2007

Unfortunately not all the web services available on the planet provide a JSON output and even less are the examples of padding support. But the JSON-P providers that I know as of today are basically the most interesting for mashing-up applications. Here’s a growing list:

Del.icio.us supports a callback parameter which is then used to wrap the JSON response into a function call. Try for

dTunes

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

And here we are, with another idea and potential project. I have many as you probably know reading this blog. But I normally don’t put the necessary effort to transform the initial example into a full fledge project. Hopefully this idea will see the light just because my spare time has moved into my full-time job.

Here’s some personal background. I have to spend around 3 months unemployed. So

Cron-based iSightcapture

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Just some month ago I used to have here a nice bash script running hourly as a cron job taking picture from the iSight (the built-in web-cam) installed on my Mac. The script is still there but after one of the last upgrades from Apple something went wrong. I even started to collect a nice picture history with the idea of making a movie out of it one day (exactly as this guy). Maybe you want to

Twitter mining

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Twitter is another amazing social phenomenon. Blogs aren’t as powerful as Twitter in describing apparently useless details of our everyday life. Big companies spend gazilion dollars to grab our thoughts and opinions and use that information to target marketing campaigns. In order to achieve this goal, companies use tools like fidelity cards or they even give you gifts if you fill a form with

Spring remoting, client side

Thursday, June 7, 2007

I had recently implemented an RMI based comunication between two applications. The server is a Spring based application. A very good and quick solution in this scenario is to expose the RMI services with Spring-Remoting. Spring will wrap your service with an RMI-aware stub on the fly, so you don’t even need to generate stubs and skeletons with rmic. What is not clear in the documentation is