Features on Zio Ivan

Finally, GhostDriver 1.0.0

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

After ~10 months of work, I finally managed to push the ball forward enough to reach GhostDriver 1.0.0. I won’t lie: it does feel great. It always is to see so much effort mutate into an achievement, even it is such only for me.

Before I go any further though, I owe a massive THANK-YOU to the people that through contribution and / or issue reporting have helped me to build a releasable 1.0.0. In particular to Jim Evans, an awesome guy and a bit of a mentor for me: you ROCK Jim, and I think that is true, literally!

Bloggart: a bit more code, a bit less sleep

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Hi. I don’t know if you can notice it, but I just did few updates to the CSS of this Blog.

Effects of sleep deprivation (no, I’m not THAT tired)

If you are one of the few a followers of my Bloggart fork, you know what’s going on: Page support, changes to the “Squared” theme and more.

I’m not yet where I want to be, but it’s getting closer. While I add small features to Bloggart, I learn its intricacies, and discover some small/medium latent bugs. Stuff that “didn’t happen because scenario x was never considered”: this is giving me some possibilities to fix and improve.

Minification and Templating for Bloggart

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:53:23 +0000

I’m sick home, but I can’t just sit in bed. It’s not how I work: I need to do something. So, I decided to give some love to Bloggart and put into proper code some features I already said I wanted to add.

I just committed on my Bloggart fork quite a list of things:

Support for JS and CSS ‘Minification’ (no obfuscation though)
Support for JS and CSS ‘Templating’ (i.e. Being able to use App Engine Djiango Template grammar into JS and CSS files)
Support for JS and CSS ‘Memcaching’
Show line numbers for ‘<pre>sourcecode</pre>’ areas in posts

Even though this is simple stuff, two of them stand out I think: Minification and Templating. Why? Because even if those are not complex or new, they speed Bloggart up even more! Let me spend a couple of words on it, so that it can be useful for you, even if you are not planning to use Bloggart.

Charles: not the Prince, the Proxy

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:33:14 +0000

It’s around 3 months now that I’m spending majority of my time developing for the web. For both Career (my new job at Betfair) and Personal (my pet project txty.mobi) reasons.

And when you do it pretty intensively, with a lot of JSON, Javascript code and what not, you need some tools to “ease tasks”. Particularly, the ones where you need to simulate a non-browser client or stuff like that.