A sunny winter day in Chiswick.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Monday, January 05, 2009
Sunday, December 14, 2008
SMS - Servizio Mobilità Sapienza
Today I was thinking...that sometimes is good to take a look at what boils inside your country.
A friend of mine pointed to me this interesting service provided by the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
It is a nice use of the Google Maps API that results in a quite useful service.
Living in London I wish I could find a similar service provided by the Tranport for London.
May be I should just go and suggest them :)
A friend of mine pointed to me this interesting service provided by the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
It is a nice use of the Google Maps API that results in a quite useful service.
Living in London I wish I could find a similar service provided by the Tranport for London.
May be I should just go and suggest them :)
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Friday, September 05, 2008
maemo.org Community Council members are going to be elected!
In few days (September, 10th) we will finally know who will be the members of the maemo.org community council.
Please note the ".org", the council will help us (the community) make our voice be heard at Nokia and, vice versa, will help Nokia in listening to the Maemo community.
This is going to be really helpful and the candidates seem to be really good.
This also marks the first of this kind of council established between a strong commercially closed company as Nokia (even if Nokia is struggling to become more open) and a strong open source community.
Let's keep an eye on this link and let's get the most out of it!
Please note the ".org", the council will help us (the community) make our voice be heard at Nokia and, vice versa, will help Nokia in listening to the Maemo community.
This is going to be really helpful and the candidates seem to be really good.
This also marks the first of this kind of council established between a strong commercially closed company as Nokia (even if Nokia is struggling to become more open) and a strong open source community.
Let's keep an eye on this link and let's get the most out of it!
Friday, August 08, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Summer
I will miss this beaches in London. This one is near 'Spiaggia della Marinella' in Camerota, Salerno. Unfortunately the n810 is in the car, so...no GPS location. However, this beach is awesome!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Maemo Summit 2008: going to berlin!
Today I have noticed that the Maemo team accepted my sponsorship application for the Maemo Summit 2008 in Berlin, September 19-20!
I was not expecting it. I am very glad about this.
I am still trying to figure out what to actually do there.
My idea was to talk (but not a real talk where you listen and I speak,but rather a session where we both speak, ask and listen) about issues in porting desktop applications to the Maemo platform.
I would like to also underline the importance of evaluating the platform potential before even planning to port the application.
This should lead to a better integration of the application with the Maemo platform.
Porting an application is not only a matter of redefining the UI (even tho this is another extremely important aspect of the porting procedures).
Usually we think about the mobile devices as a cut down version of our desktops.
Even tho it's always true, it is also true that the mobile devices, often, provide more new features that the desktop doesn't or cannot provide at all.
Taking the key aspects of the target platform into the right account when planning a port, is fundamental for the success of the port.
I will refine these ideas during the following weeks.
Looks like it'll be an interesting summer (job hunting in London, Maemo Summit in Berlin and a few conferences/workshops/meeting related to my research).
I was not expecting it. I am very glad about this.
I am still trying to figure out what to actually do there.
My idea was to talk (but not a real talk where you listen and I speak,but rather a session where we both speak, ask and listen) about issues in porting desktop applications to the Maemo platform.
I would like to also underline the importance of evaluating the platform potential before even planning to port the application.
This should lead to a better integration of the application with the Maemo platform.
Porting an application is not only a matter of redefining the UI (even tho this is another extremely important aspect of the porting procedures).
Usually we think about the mobile devices as a cut down version of our desktops.
Even tho it's always true, it is also true that the mobile devices, often, provide more new features that the desktop doesn't or cannot provide at all.
Taking the key aspects of the target platform into the right account when planning a port, is fundamental for the success of the port.
I will refine these ideas during the following weeks.
Looks like it'll be an interesting summer (job hunting in London, Maemo Summit in Berlin and a few conferences/workshops/meeting related to my research).
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Back on Xournal
UPDATE:
Looks like too many people have the maemo extras-devel repository installed.
They should not. Or at least, they should know what the extras-devel repo is.
The maemo extras-devel repository is intended as a tool for the developer to test out its code before promoting it to the real maemo Extras repository (the one that's pre-configured in your tablet when you buy it, disable).
Today I've uploaded an alpha version of Xournal (packaged for diablo) on the maemo extras-devel repository. Thus, those people got the notification of an update available and went straight to the Application Manager in order to update.
I see here two mistakes:
1) they should have not installed the -devel repository (unless they knew what they were doing)
2) the Application Manager should TELL from WHERE the package is coming from
However, the next release of Xournal HAS NOT YET been released.
And I strongly suggest, whoever has the maemo extras-devel repo installed, to NOT update to the Diablo version yet.
Check out this ITt forum thread for more info.
My post #198 on that thread explain how to solve the issue.
Thank you.
Original post:
Today I noticed that Xournal has been selected as "The Pearl" in the Maemo Downloads section.
Right on time, I would say as this morning I woke up and decided that it's time to upgrade my Maemo SDK to Diablo and re-package Xournal in order to make it appear in the Diablo extras repository.
So, thank you Maemo team for choosing Xournal as the current pearl!
Stay tuned, it shouldn't take too much time.
Looks like too many people have the maemo extras-devel repository installed.
They should not. Or at least, they should know what the extras-devel repo is.
The maemo extras-devel repository is intended as a tool for the developer to test out its code before promoting it to the real maemo Extras repository (the one that's pre-configured in your tablet when you buy it, disable).
Today I've uploaded an alpha version of Xournal (packaged for diablo) on the maemo extras-devel repository. Thus, those people got the notification of an update available and went straight to the Application Manager in order to update.
I see here two mistakes:
1) they should have not installed the -devel repository (unless they knew what they were doing)
2) the Application Manager should TELL from WHERE the package is coming from
However, the next release of Xournal HAS NOT YET been released.
And I strongly suggest, whoever has the maemo extras-devel repo installed, to NOT update to the Diablo version yet.
Check out this ITt forum thread for more info.
My post #198 on that thread explain how to solve the issue.
Thank you.
Original post:
Today I noticed that Xournal has been selected as "The Pearl" in the Maemo Downloads section.
Right on time, I would say as this morning I woke up and decided that it's time to upgrade my Maemo SDK to Diablo and re-package Xournal in order to make it appear in the Diablo extras repository.
So, thank you Maemo team for choosing Xournal as the current pearl!
Stay tuned, it shouldn't take too much time.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Diablo has been released!!!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
[UPDATED] Maemo: No Java and OpenGL ES support. Official.
UPDATE: Daniel Stone and Quim Gil further explained the status of the OpenGL ES and Java support in the comments to this post.
As they've pointed out, the title of my post is misleading in the sense that FOR NOW there is no support and no plan for it.
The "WONTFIX" part is, thus, temporary.
Daniel also went further and added a new comment to bug #1028
I will leave the original post below unedited.
-- ORIGINAL WRONG POST
This morning, during my usual e-mail check, I had a quick look at Maemo Bug Jar #9 and discovered this list of two bugs marked as RESOLVED: WONTFIX.
[This part is just plain wrong]
Thus, it's official: we won't get either Java and OpenGL ES support on the Nokia's Internet Tablets.
I was expecting it, but it's anyway sad to read that it's confirmed.
As they've pointed out, the title of my post is misleading in the sense that FOR NOW there is no support and no plan for it.
The "WONTFIX" part is, thus, temporary.
Daniel also went further and added a new comment to bug #1028
I will leave the original post below unedited.
-- ORIGINAL WRONG POST
This morning, during my usual e-mail check, I had a quick look at Maemo Bug Jar #9 and discovered this list of two bugs marked as RESOLVED: WONTFIX.
[This part is just plain wrong]
Thus, it's official: we won't get either Java and OpenGL ES support on the Nokia's Internet Tablets.
I was expecting it, but it's anyway sad to read that it's confirmed.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
A-GPS support on the N8x0 is coming with Diablo
Looks like we will finally get really fast fix times, with our tablets, when Diablo will eventually come out.
ITT's forum user "qwerty12" noticed a nice "agps-ui" application to control AGPS on the tablet.
He went on and installed it and it works!
Other (lucky) Diablo (pre-release) users are reporting time to fix in the order of SECONDS!
Can't wait for the release of this new firmware.
ITT's forum user "qwerty12" noticed a nice "agps-ui" application to control AGPS on the tablet.
He went on and installed it and it works!
Other (lucky) Diablo (pre-release) users are reporting time to fix in the order of SECONDS!
Can't wait for the release of this new firmware.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
iPhone version of Google Reader on the N810
Today I was going thru my feed subscriptions on Google Reader when I hit this interesting post from Jonathan Greene (aka atmasphere).
With no further ado I pointed my n810's browser to the iPhone version of Google Reader...awesome.
Really.
This made me think.. why they had to wait for the iPhone to come out in order to make stuff like that ?
Why other websites feel being pushed by the iPhone and not by the pletora of tablet-like devices running at the wonderful resolution of 800x480 or lower (Nokia tablets, Asus EEE PC, UMPCs, and so on...) ?
Anyway.. I am now enjoying Google Reader a lot more than before on my n810.
It would be nice to try it out on the n810 with a rotated screen :)
From another point of view, I was also thinking: wasn't Apple advertising a 'real internet' on your palm when talking about the iPhone version of Safari ?
So... what's the deal with so many websites featuring trimmed down version of their pages specifically for the iPhone ?
May be lack of screen real estate ?
With no further ado I pointed my n810's browser to the iPhone version of Google Reader...awesome.
Really.
This made me think.. why they had to wait for the iPhone to come out in order to make stuff like that ?
Why other websites feel being pushed by the iPhone and not by the pletora of tablet-like devices running at the wonderful resolution of 800x480 or lower (Nokia tablets, Asus EEE PC, UMPCs, and so on...) ?
Anyway.. I am now enjoying Google Reader a lot more than before on my n810.
It would be nice to try it out on the n810 with a rotated screen :)
From another point of view, I was also thinking: wasn't Apple advertising a 'real internet' on your palm when talking about the iPhone version of Safari ?
So... what's the deal with so many websites featuring trimmed down version of their pages specifically for the iPhone ?
May be lack of screen real estate ?
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Xournal is skyrocketing...
Wow!!
Since I have released Xournal few days ago, a lot of people downloaded it and now Xournal is among the first 4 (yes, four!) most downloaded applications !
Thank you guys and thanks to Denis Auroux, the real developer of Xournal.
And thanks also for the great votes Xournal has got so far.
We're climbing fast :)
I was really surprised to see how many people downloaded Xournal, but really surprised to see that it was downloaded more than Canola or Maemo Mapper!
I would have never thought this was possible.
:) it's awesome!
UPDATE: We're second only to Pidgin...I can't believe it.
Since I have released Xournal few days ago, a lot of people downloaded it and now Xournal is among the first 4 (yes, four!) most downloaded applications !
Thank you guys and thanks to Denis Auroux, the real developer of Xournal.
And thanks also for the great votes Xournal has got so far.
We're climbing fast :)
I was really surprised to see how many people downloaded Xournal, but really surprised to see that it was downloaded more than Canola or Maemo Mapper!
I would have never thought this was possible.
:) it's awesome!
UPDATE: We're second only to Pidgin...I can't believe it.
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