Stanford University's great experiment with an online Artificial Intelligence course has come to end. 20000+ students including myself completed the advanced track.
Thursday 7 July 2011
Pomodoro Time Manager 1.5 has been released
By Alessio on Thursday 7 July 2011, 19:40 - Pomodoro
I've developed a small Java app to help me improving the way I manage my time using the Pomodoro Technique. See if this works for you as well.
Saturday 2 April 2011
Poke the Box
By Alessio on Saturday 2 April 2011, 11:10 - Books
I've just finished reading "Poke the Box" by Seth Godin. That was good book to read. See my review at Amazon.
Thursday 24 March 2011
Take a picture to (your?) mobile boarding pass
By Alessio on Thursday 24 March 2011, 08:02 - Security
You probably know what a 2D barcode boarding pass is.
As any new technology it is subject to security flaws, not necessarily because the technology is flawed, rather because it can trigger flawed processes. Here's an example.
Thursday 17 March 2011
Free as in speech or Free as in beer?
By Alessio on Thursday 17 March 2011, 18:36 - Open
The Free Software Foundation makes a distinction between Free as in speech and Free as in beer. The difference is blurring...
Saturday 19 February 2011
The Oliver Becker's XPath method
By Alessio on Saturday 19 February 2011, 08:02 - XML
XPath 1.0 does not support conditional expressions, at least not with the syntactic sugar one can expect.
With XPath 1.0 it is easy to extract content and use it as part of a string, but what if the actual content must depend on some condition? For example: if some condition is true I want to generate the string 'FOO', otherwise I want to generate the string 'BAZZ'.
In this case we can use the Oliver Becker's XPath method.
How to install the latest delicious addon on the latest version of Firefox
By Alessio on Saturday 19 February 2011, 08:01 - Firefox
As I'm writing this, the latest delicious addon (2.1.106) to Firefox does not support the latest Firefox 4 version; as a consequence Firefox won't allow the addon to be installed. These instructions help fixing the problem by fooling Firefox into believing that the addon is compatible. I haven't seen any issues using it in the last couple of weeks.
Saturday 5 February 2011
HCB 3.0 has been released
By Alessio on Saturday 5 February 2011, 18:30 - HCB - Hyperlinked C++ BNF Grammar
Version 3.0 of my Hyperlinked C++ BNF Grammar has been released.