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After dozens of delays, I’ve opened this blog that hopefully I’ll update frequently. I already know that here I’ll write some very-short pieces and some very long ones. It may happens that some...

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Autocompleter

I would like to share with you a funny April foul Google did this year . No related posts.

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15’000’000 liters of contaminated water in the ocean

I’m willing to write a piece on this whole situation, but I don’t have the time right now. I’ll try to write it up in the next week or so. But now I’d like to write about the Tepco decision of pushing...

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The 30/04 LIP

Even if already passed a week from the LIP (Linux Install Party) that the ViGLug organized in Settala. I don’t think this is the right moment or place to speak specifically about what (not) happened at...

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Summer time

Summer arrived today in Milan there is a beautyful blue sky and the sun shine after weeks of cloudy and rainy weather. No related posts.

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Make ION working properly in Fedora 15

As I was already writing here, I’m going to describe you how to make ION working as you will. This post is the English translation of this Italian post. The EeePc 1015PN, at least the European version,...

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Mining the Social Web by Matthew Russell, O’Reilly Media

Mining the Social Web is a good start for anyone is going to create scripts to analyze patterns in Social Networks. I’ve to say that this book consider that the reader already masters Python. I think...

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jQuery Mobile: Up and Running by Maximiliano Firtman (O’Reilly)

jQuery Mobile is a library that allows you to develop mobile apps using jQuery. Is even possible to use a jQuery Mobile program as a native app, thanks to programs like PhoneGap. This book assumes that...

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The Art of SEO by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiolla and Rank...

Since the four authors are very popular in the SEO field, I was expecting the best book on SEO ever. All my expectation have been met. I think that the book authors have done a great job describing...

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Mobile Design Pattern Gallery by Theresa Neil (O’Reilly Media)

This book is weird, I’ve to tell you. I was expecting a book with some examples and some text. Well, I ended up with a book that, at the first sight, seems more a book for kids rather than a...

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HTC One X: First week

I’m using the HTC One X since the 6th of April, so it has been a week so far. This phone is awesome . Comparing to my old phone (LG P-500) is really fast and it seems to mount a completely different...

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Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers by Michael Schrenk (O’Reilly Media)

I’ve been immediately caught from this book as I’m in a project that is based on a webbot, and I’m developing it using PHP and cURL. Since the first day I’ve started to use cURL (and a lot of other PHP...

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HTC One X from the music point of view

In the last few days I’ve been able to test a little bit more the multimedia part of my phone. What I’ve discovered is weird from my point of view. The phone performed amazingly using the headphones...

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jQuery UI by Eric Sarrion (O’Reilly Media)

jQuery has very interested me in the last period. I think that it is the best JavaScript library for me. jQuery UI is a set of functions that allow you to improve the graphics and the functionality of...

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Linux Pocket Guide by Daniel J. Barrett (O’Reilly)

This is one of my favorite book about Linux. Probably is the most favorite one. In the last years I’ve been looking for a book that was like a printed man with some more explanation and a rigid order....

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HTC One X: my super power saver policy

I’d like to share with you the policy I’m using to preserve my phone energy. I’ve tried most of the out-of-the-box policy, but I hated them all. My personal policy is based on the idea that the...

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Code Simplicity by Max Kanat-Alexander (O’Reilly)

This is not the typical O’Reilly programming book and you can find it out very easily when you have the book in your hands, since it does not have any code inside. The author, in fact, tries to create...

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20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap by Jamie Munro (O’Reilly)

This book starts with a little introduction and with the instructions to setup the environment. After this, the book starts at full speed with “the Recipes”. The structure based on Recipes is what I...

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Exam Ref 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 by Craig...

This in not an O’Reilly book, even if you have found it on the O’Reilly website. In fact this book has been published by the Microsoft Press. Maybe this is a good thing, since we are talking about...

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Strata Conference New York + Hadoop World 2012: Complete Video Compilation by...

When I’ve been selected to review, I was shocked by the amount of material that is hidden in this product. This is more than 100 hours of videos of the Strata and Hadoop World conference. The material...

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