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It’s widely spread opinion that at some point of our career we, software people, should start giving speeches and talks. I’m firmly convinced that THAT is not for me, and I want to carve my ears out of my head every time I hear my heavily-accented-english, mixed with my ability to cut words and make the message come across barely understandable. But, this presentation was really important to me: I presented my-work-so-far on building a PhantomJS WebDriver. I call it GhostDriver (provisional name). ...

Japan is facing one of the worst crisis since WW2: An earthquake, a subsequent Tsunami and now, worsts of all, a nuclear power crisis. Thousands died, and millions are now in huge danger. Japan is indeed facing a tragedy. The earthquake was not just a strong one: was the 6th in the list of most powerful earthquakes ever registered (i.e. since ~1900) - an incredible 8.9 Richter. And, bear in mind, the Richter Magnitude Scale is logarithmic. ...

Just one advice: watch this thing in HD and prepare to lose you jaw.

This is a really amazing version of the Daniel H. Pink speech about Motivation. It all into it’s second book, “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”. And, best of all, it’s all explained on a white board ;)

Show this to as much peoples as possible. It probably something some informed/smart people already know, but I admit that having someone making a video of it, makes it more “rememberable”, so more effective on (my) future behaviour. I’m cheese? I’m controllable through videos? Possibly, but in this case I’m OK with that. More at: The Story of Stuff.

I would have just posted it on Twitter, but I have some comments about this video. One of the first video of the iPad Simulator Watch it in Full screen at 720p: it help “feeling” the proportions used by Apple in the UI It clarify how it does execute iPhone apps: they most probably implement the iPhone API as is: indeed even the Keyboard that you get in an iPhone application is the same (no super large/super cool keyboard of the iPad ...

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 ...

Last episode of the latest “Passate Parola” episode of the great Marco Travaglio. I wish it was in English: it would simplify a lot the life of who would like to understand the “Berlusconi’s Story”. There are Italian subtitles though: it could be useful for someone that is able to read Italian at lease.

From "Who’s Minding the Store", by Jerry Lewis From “Decameron - La Macchina da Scrivere”, by Daniele Luttazzi (blog) “Ciccotti e la Macchina da Scrivere”, by Tommaso Ciccotti

Good Jobs Here at Home Ending Bad Habits I wish I had such a President: I don’t know if he is really going to do what he says, but at least he says correct and agreeable things.