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Posted in family, programming on Aug 4th, 2010
GlutenBuster è diventata l’applicazione ufficiale per la piattaforma Android dell’Associazione Italiana Celiachia e ora si chiama AiC mobile.
Con questo post segnalo che ho rilascio la versione 1.0.0 di AiC mobile e che ieri l’ho pubblicata sul Market Google in modo che chiunque sia interessato possa installarla e usufruire del prontuario AIC dei prodotti senza glutine [...]
Posted in family, programming on May 22nd, 2010
Ho rilasciato la prima versione pubblica di GlutenBuster, app per la piattaforma Android per la consultazione del prontuario AIC degli alimenti senza glutine.
GlutenBuster è sviluppato come software libero (Free Software) ed è distribuito gratuitamente da sito di sviluppo collaborativo.
Sono alla ricerca di persone interessate a partecipare alla fase di test prima della pubblicazione nel [...]
Posted in english, programming on May 21st, 2010
I recently made an helper class to download a file from the web and save it to the file sytem while updating a ProgressDialog to let the user know the percentage of the download made. This class has the responsibility to manage the network communication and to send messages to the UI to update the [...]
Posted in programming on Dec 14th, 2009
I've implemented a port-knocking client implementation in PHP inspired by the knockd C implementation made by Judd Vinet.
You can can download it at this page.
If you don't know what port knocking is, it can briefly described as a way of surreptitiously offering services on a server without advertising the fact. By delivering a special sequence [...]
Posted in programming on Oct 20th, 2009
Venerdi’ 20 Novembre 2009 si terrà a Bologna il sesto Italian Agile Day. Si tratta di una conferenza gratuita di un giorno dedicata alle metodologie Agili per lo sviluppo e la gestione dei progetti software rivolta agli sviluppatori, project leaders, IT managers, tester, architetti e coach che hanno esperienze da condividere o che iniziano solo [...]
Posted in english, programming on Aug 9th, 2009
This article is to make a simple example on how you can manage SOAP Messages with Attachements in PHP and, in particular, I'll describe how to use the PEAR::SOAP package to transmit files associated to a SOAP message as attachments in their native format in a multipart MIME structure for transport (SOAP Messages with Attachments [...]
Posted in english, programming on Apr 10th, 2009
Very often I found on the web ContentProvider examples based on a SQLite table that describes, as a constraint, to have a column named _id to be used as primary key. Also the official Android Dev Guide introducing in Creating a Content Provider tells to
Be sure to include an integer column named "_id" (with [...]
Posted in english, programming on Jan 17th, 2009
Yesterday I was googling to find the algorithm to covert a netmask (in the dotted decimal format like 255.255.255.0) in corresponding cidr to manage a database migration, but I can't find it. So I wrote it in PHP.
The following function takes a valid netmask in the dotted decimal format as a string in input and [...]
Posted in english, programming on Dec 27th, 2008
If you need to copy an XML document to another filtering it from a specific element node, a good solution could be the use of XSL. The starting point is the so called "identity" template as introduced with an example in the XSLT Recommendation itself:
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XML:
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
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Posted in english, programming on Nov 29th, 2008
I recently solved a problem common to many heavy used web application following an idea of a friend of mine.
The problem is how to efficently manage the sessions of a web application when the number of them is high (500,000 for example) and the use of them his quite frequent (˜50,000 pages/day in my case).
A [...]
