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TheTyper has been open since the first of october, but it still lacked a real announcement on the blog. So here it is.
You can go to TheTyper and register for your free account. You’ll then be able to start wiriting your notes online within an environment built to help you concentrate on the act of [...]

The code for thetyper is essentially done, but i have decided to wait a couple of days before turning the switch and deploying the code just to make it rest (and to do a final bug hunt and docs polishing).
It will have a bunch of new features, which i felt were needed to make it [...]

Here is a set with my photos from the rails conf days in London (taken with a phone).

Here are the Slides from my presentation to the European Rails Conference. During the talk, I lost some time at the beginning so i didn’t manage to dedicate enough time to the sencond half (which I think might have been more interesting) about routing internals and how to customize it (writing a plugin for instance). [...]

Inspired by the interesting discussion around mobile news rivers I thought I’d put down some ideas on what i think may be some principles for developing mobile pages. These come from using my nokia phone to browse and they are not written with a particular technology in mind.

one column. Mobiles’ screens are usually taller than [...]

In a couple of days I’ll be in London speaking at the European Rails Conference with talk titled “All You Ever Wanted To Know About Routing And Never Dare To Ask“.
I’ll be talking of the routing module in Ruby on Rails, which allows an application to map nice, semantically meaningful URLs, to the action code [...]

This morning i read a skeptical article from Oliver Starr at MobileCrunch about the “River of News” approach for reading news on mobiles.
I have a couple of problems with the points he is making. Disclaimer: i have been developing a river style aggregator since last june and I have used it during the summer while [...]

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whew, one hour or so ago I sent out emails to some of the bloggers I read usually, with invites to try out the typer.
I’m looking forward to hear their opinions and have some feedback (and actually I just solved the first public bug with the help of one of the invitee!).
Note to self: Never [...]

I like to use “simple” text editors rather then word processors to write, I use TextMate on OSX and TextPad on Windows, adopting the OPML editor when i need to support and track structure. But when I saw Writeroom about a month ago I was struck with its beautiful design and essential feature set, I [...]