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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.

Making Bloggart Sidebar more Flexible

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:55:20 +0000

Bloggart from Nick Johnson is great. I think I made it clear that I love it (there hasn’t been a post so far with a mention about it). But it has some “shortcoming”: bits that a person like me, coming from Wordpress, always wishes were there. But no worries, we can always tune Bloggart: it’s the great part of Open Source after all.

Nice Branching Metaphor

In fact, at github.com/detro/bloggart you can find my branch of Bloggart, where I’m gradually pushing the new functionality I want/need.

New Job. New Blog. New Life(?)

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:33:23 +0000

A lot is changing in my life. I’m getting older, I’m getting wiser, I’m getting “stupider” (like it was even possible :-P ).

New Job

Last Friday (3rd of Sep 2010) I left Orange Labs UK. After 2 years and 2 months, my work at this the UK branch of France Telecom R&D is over.

I have been involved in a number of projects with various degrees of commitment: some full time, some to land a hand, some to just criticise and make fun of colleagues (just kidding: it was more like trying to shutdown wasteful project branching and focusing on the good targets :-P ).

Hello World, again!

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:22:34 +0000

`1`	`$ echo "Hello World!"`

This is my first post from a whole new backend. Yes, I’m leaving the underperforming and unreliable Bluehost Hosting for a scalable, distributed, load-balanced, reliable, powerful platform. I’m going Google. I’m moving to App Engine.

To make App Engine serve my purpose, I picked a small, cute, interesting project to do the job: Bloggart, made by brilliant Arachnid (Nick Johnson).

The old posts you ask? Yes, I’m working on a strategy for that. Most probably will work a bit on Bloggart to welcome my Wordpress’s data, and use the App Engine Bulk Loader. Of course, there will be quite few bumps on the way: Bloggart is not Wordpress. I’m sure there will be tons of features that will be left out. But Bloggart and App Engine suite my primary purpose: Speeeeeed. In fact, I recommend you take a good look at this series of article on Nick’s blog where he goes step-by-step through the development of his project: really cool stuff.

YouTube >> The Go Programming Language

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:13:12 +0000

A video that I need to watch myself (I just managed to watch 25% of it), but I thought was good to post it here: just to remind how good it is to think “out of the box”. Even in Programming Languages.

Presenter: Rob Pike Presented on: 30th Oct 2009

Go is a new experimental systems programming language intended to make software development fast. Our goal is that a major Google binary should be buildable in a few seconds on a single machine. The language is concurrent, garbage-collected, and requires explicit declaration of dependencies. Simple syntax and a clean type system support a number of programming styles. For more on Go including FAQs, source code, libraries, and tutorials, please see:http://golang.org

New Theme: The Journalist

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:24:57 +0000

Another update for Detronizator.org’s theme. Say hello to “The Journalist”, from Lucian E. Marin.

Great job Lucian! ;-)

Windows 7 in 6 different sauces

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:59:13 +0000

Images and Videos say more than ever here.

--’ Here it comes again!!! --'

Steve, please say something:

Source: The Apple Lounge

BrickBook Unboxing

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:12:46 +0000

[![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/detronizator/SQD0_TWfWZE/AAAAAAAABfQ/HEHlhDkPhoI/s160-c/BrickBookUnboxing.jpg)](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/BrickBookUnboxing#)

[BrickBook Unboxing](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/BrickBookUnboxing#)

Simply, the Best laptop I have met. Ever!

P.S. Yes, I manage to grab one ;-)

WTF?

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:19:33 +0000

Tuesday or Wednesday last week, Appleintroduces one of the Greatest Piece of Art that the world of Technology has ever (EVER!) seen. This:

Yesterday, the less than a week after, at 235 Regent’s Street they were Sold-Out!!! The guys there said that «it was sold-out almost the same day it went on the market!!!».

Cooliris releases PicLens 1.7

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:26:53 +0000

I have already highlighted in the past this project. Now I’m delighted to report that version 1.7 is out, and… it’s a great one!!!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of PicLens Version 1.7 with three exciting additions:

Shop Amazon– The 3D Wall transformed image search. Now PicLens launches online shopping into the 21st century. Browse and buy seamlessly just like window shopping!

Discover– MSNBC, ESPN, movie trailers…Get the latest news, photos, and video feeds.