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This is so amusing: buttons is a blind camera, or better a camera that doesn’t make photos but rather that shows you the photos that other people have taken in the very same moment.

It pushes to the limit the act of taking photos to remeber moments, it just records the time and day, and [...]

My article Tips for Optimizing Rails on Oracle has been published on the Oracle Technology Network site! I can’t say how much i liked working on this.
I tried to synthesize in one place all that needs to be known to make the best from the two technologies and explained all of the tips in oracle-specific [...]

I got a nice easter present yesterday: The Typer  got reviewed on the Rails App Week by Darren at The Web2.0 Show
They nailed it right:  it’s simple by purpose, and i’d dare to say that it has been a big experiment for me in building a clean and simple interface that makes sense for the [...]

Today I have seen from my subscriptions the rise of the attention to the soon-to-be-launched Freebase which is the first product that will be lanched by Danny Hillis’ Metaweb. I see a few point of contacts with RadarNetworks, another enterpirse that is getting hot in these days.
They both aim to give a new spark (and [...]

In Are Blogs the New Resumes?
the author Daniel Scocco arguments that bloggers certainly have an edge over job seekers that do not publish one and he says that it is so because the employee will have more informations on the candidate from his blog and his public presence than just from his resume or interviews.
Those [...]

This post over at 37signals blog made me think about how designing a helpful help system should be very much one if the priorities for anyone developing a system whcih is to be used by anyone else [1]. In the comments i said:
What is lacking sometimes (most of the times?) is a good“help” design. I [...]

A few days ago I discovered the query_analyzer plugin in a comment on the last article of The Rails Way series. It allows you to have the plans for the queries used in your application directly in the log file and this is invaluable when trying to to optimize the database for you shiny new [...]

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Pluck RSS reader is going to be discontinued and the commenters agree that it is a sign of the consumer feed readers becoming (or rather already being) commodities, with this space headed to be dominated by the big players.
It is sure that this market is crowded and it’s also clear that acquiring users has been [...]

I read today the humanized blog and I find it’s (very) true what Aza Raskin wrote in Monolog Boxes and Transparent Messages: the best interace should aim to minimize the interruptions in what the user is doing.
When you are “in the zone”, especially when writing or designinig or programming, any interruption in your flow of [...]