Me and Samy just had lunch at The White Swan by the river Thames in Twickenham with Dan and Morena.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Easter Monday
Me and Samy just had lunch at The White Swan by the river Thames in Twickenham with Dan and Morena.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
English brunch
Enjoying a fantastic tea brunch at the Richmond Tea Box. Great cosy place in the backstreets of Richmond upon Thames.
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!!!
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