I’ve always owned a debt of gratitude to Bartosz Blimke and his amazingly simple ‘copy with style’ Textmate bundle which lets you copy and paste chunks of code to external programs (eg: Keynote) while keeping all the syntax highlight working.
Lately I’ve been pretty busy enjoying some real time data visualization examples and demo. To have some data to work with I decided to use Twitter API, in particular I rely on jQuery LiveTwitter plugin by elektronaut; next I built a stack chart like visualization in which every new tweet of a chosen topic is dropped over its language column.
What I did the last two months? I was preparing the html.it HTML5 guide which will be released starting from the next week. Right by now a preview chapter is already available and, if you are interested, you might also want to follow the presentation event, taking place the 28th of february in Rome.
Talking about events, the last saturday there was UGIALT.net and I had the pleasure to share a talk with Simone Chiaretta: in just 20 minutes each of us live coded a simple application using his preferred language: Ruby on Rails for me and ASP.NET MVC for Simone. It was a really enlightening experience.
I’ve just committed the 0.3 version of WiPad, this new release introduce a new mechanism which helps handle permalinks. Having to deal with a single-file Sencha-based application made me pretty hard to figure out how to re-introduce permalink and give the opportunity to reach a single post using its url.
Update 01/09/2010: WiPad is now published and available on the official WordPress plugin directory.
I’ve started deploying an iPad wordpress theme/plugin based on wptouch and powered by Sencha. Today I’ve reached the first working alpha and so I’ve decided to use it against this blog. You can try out this theme by surfing here with an iPad or a simulator; two screenshots are also available after the jump.
update 14/07/2010: rubyinside.com featured my speaker showcase ! Here’s the post !
update 19/06/2010: my speakers showcase gets a dedicated post at euruko2010 official blog from Ela. Thanks guys !
Euruko 2010 is over. It was a great week-end spent among cool people having fun and talking about Ruby. As Matz said “we have a nice community”, and that’s absolutely true. To honor this conference (and to test some CSS3 features ^_^ ) I’ve developed a page showcasing the speakers and their talks. For each of them you may find a short summary and some resources (slide, etc..).
Just a small post to thanks everyone who took part to whymca 2010 conference. I specially want to thanks people who attend my and Marco‘s talk ‘HTML5 come strumento di sviluppo mobile’. Finally many kudos to all the organizers who managed to set-up this amazing conference.
After a lot of reasonings I come to the decision to switch the language of this blog from italian to english, this change is going to cost me more time every time I decide to post something but it will also work as a training center for my foreign language skills. Plus it is probable that most (if not all) of my current followers will keep reading and understand english posts while new non-italian readers may be attracted due to this change.
Ammiro moltissimo Streamlined ed ho letto con dispiacere la notizia della sospensione del suo sviluppo; ho deciso quindi di imbarcarmi nell’opera di porting di questo framework con l’obiettivo di renderlo compatibile con Rails 3.0. La strada da percorrere è ancora lunga ma find’ora è disponibile su github una pre-alpha funzionante, almeno nelle sue features essenziali (CRUD, listing e search).
Per ulteriori dettagli vi rimando al post su RailsOnWave contenente l’annuncio ufficiale.
E’ stato appena pubblicata su flash.html.it la prima parte di una serie di due articoli che ho scritto incentrati sulle classi layout per Flex4. Le potenzialità messe a disposizione dalla nuova release del prodotto Adobe sono veramente impressionanti, mi sono ritrovato a pensare che con quest’ultima versione sia ora l’HTML classico ad essere in debito di pattern strutturali. Basti pensare alle Skin, che consentono di descrivere un componente in tutti i suoi attributi, da quelli fisici (altezza, larghezza, etc..) a quelli di interazione (stati, animazioni tra stati, etc..) diventando una sovrastruttura più importante ed utile dei normali CSS che l’html mette a disposizione (forse ci si stà avvicinando con i CSS3) in quanto attiva non solo sul piano del design ma anche su quello importantissimo e spesso trascurato dell’interazione.
Non mi dilungo oltre e lascio gli interessati alla lettura della prima parte dell’articolo.