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While studying Ruby on Rails and looking for documentation I found this post by David Heinemeier Hansson
Addressing concerns with Active Record (Loud Thinking).
It explains some of the rationale behind the Active Record machinery and why it has been made so that you can do the easy thigs VERY easily while it is trivial to revert [...]

Thinking about security:
… I went to install the driver, the instructions actually said something to the tune of “Ignore this warning box, it doesn’t mean anything important. Continue clicking OK on every screen until the driver finishes installing.”

Read more about the ways companies try to walk around the Windows Certified [...]

just a quick note on the blog, from the start of august, having a contract being postponed to late september (In Italy august is the month when almost everybody is on vacation), I had some time to play with some technology I find quite interesting, but never really had time to try out.
The first [...]

I’ve been testing today the OPML (the editor) and I’ve been highly impressed by how easy it is to get started with outlining and how useful it is to organize your ideas and work with a tool like this.
I’ve always liked the idea of code folding when editing source, but i have to admit [...]

From Cryptogram: a paper from Rachna Dhamija and Doug Tygar researchers at the University of California Berkeley outlines a scheme to improve the tools in the hands of the users to fight the problem of phishing.
They describe a couple of protocols, to be implemented by the browser and the server which can augment the [...]

I needed to load and parse some opml in a javascript: any recent browser (aka Mozilla, Firefox or IE6) has the abilty to asyncronously load a resource from the net (all the AJAX stuff is based on this), moreover of this is an xml file it is possible to have it parsed into a DOM [...]

The Game is Afoot
Geeks understand market competition about as well as men understand women.
Piu’ di una volta ho cercato di trovare esempi per spiegare perche’ la “tecnica” nell’informatica non e’ tutto, soprattutto se si vogliono realizzare e vendere prodotti o servizi, questo articolo di Eric Sink lo fa in modo perfetto… cosigliato a tutti i [...]

Da qualche settimana sono passato ad Ubuntu Linux come sistema operativo del Pc che utilizzo maggiormente per lavoro (nel mio ufficio “casalingo”). Giovedi scorso, avendo bisogno di Oracle per un’attivita’ di sviluppo, mi sono imbarcato nell’impresa di installarlo su questa versione di Linux che non e’ supportata ufficialmente da Oracle.
Per SuSE (ed in misura [...]

I the pdf below I have outlined two examples of the flow for a web application in the lines of “The solution to the Yahoo problem”? post by Dave Winer (I’ve called it subscription memory service).
I have made a couple of additions to the initial Winer’s proposal:

A check is added to the registration page asking [...]