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(Sorry about the use of the Italian language on this post. If you're not Italian, then you are not interested about the content of this page, anyway)

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Se sei uno studente di Design alla LUB e sei capitato alla mia vecchia pagina intitolata "Un messaggio da quelli di design?", vedi di leggere bene il contenuto della pagina e di distinguere ció che scrivo io, unico autore del blog, e ció che scrive qualsiasi altra persona. Trovo infantile il modo in cui alcune persone si siano accanite su di me confondendomi con ció che hanno scritto altre persone sotto forma di commento.
BD-things.net é un blog/sito che raccoglie articoli e pensieri informatici, soprattutto in inglese e che non hanno quasi mai a che fare con la Libera Universitá di Bolzano. Men che meno con la Facoltá di Design, che si é meritata un mio singolo post. E proprio per niente con sclerate contro gli studenti di Design, persone che non ho mai giudicato male.

Se sei uno studente di Informatica e ce l´hai coi designer della LUB, leggiti un articolo informatico del mio blog o prendili per il culo per i fatti tuoi da un´altra parte se ci tieni, a me non interessa prendere in giro le persone che frequentano design. Ci sono altri blog che lo fanno, non il mio.

Sei sei una qualsiasi altra persona che capita su quella pagina, evita di sparare a zero su studenti di design o su studenti di informatica applicata. Se hai critiche costruttive scrivi pure.

Grazie,

L´autore del blog e unica persona che lo gestisce

Daniel Graziotin.

When I announced BD-incollo 6 days ago, I also mentioned that I would have launched the service today. I really did that, and I'm very proud to announce the first site that runs BD-incollo.
http://incollo.com! Very easy
Incollo.com is a collaborative debugging tool like Pastebin or other similar services, but it's slightly different from it. And it's different from other Pastebin clones even written using Rails or Django.
Here are the most exciting features:

• It's Fast. Very Fast
• Written thinking about usability
• A very clean interface, a minimalist design that gives space to the code (as it should always be)
• It's possible to search through pastes, like in a forum
• A Paste is not deleted after 30 days or something similar. A paste is deleted after it is no more interesting! It's deleted after 60 days of no visualizations
• The system is anonymous. It won't store your information! Paste whatever you want but please use your brain! A Paste may be reported to the administrator!
• You don't really have to play with options and there are no required field other than the Paste itself. You may paste a text and directly hit the submit button
• Quite every page is XHTML 1.0 compatible
• It works well and has nice urls, thanks to Django
• Compatible with every browser (tested with Internet Explorer 6,7,8, Mozilla Firefox 3, Apple Safari, Google Chrome)
• Resolution friendly! Liquid design that adapts to every monitor resolution (tests from 1024x768)
• Developer friendly! Every functionality of incollo.com can be used with max 2 mouse clicks and without a mouse scroll!
• Tested with lots of pastes, quite every source code should be perfectly viewed (this does not happen with every pastebin clones I've tried)
• Uses Pygments for code highlighting
• Languages supported: ActionScript, Assembly (various), Boo, Befunge, BrainFuck, C, C++, C#, Common Lisp, D, Delphi, Dylan, Erlang, Haskell (incl. Literate Haskell), Java, JavaScript, Lua, MiniD, MooCode, MuPad, OCaml, PHP, Perl, Python (incl. console sessions and tracebacks), Redcode, Ruby (incl. irb sessions), Scheme, Visual Basic.NET, Django/Jinja templates, ERB (Ruby templating), Genshi (the Trac template language), Myghty (the HTML::Mason based framework), Mako (the Myghty successor), Smarty templates (PHP templating), JSP (Java Server Pages), , Other markup, , Apache config files, Bash shell scripts, BBCode, CSS, Debian control files, Diff files, Gettext catalogs, Groff markup, HTML, INI-style config files, IRC logs (irssi style), Makefiles, MoinMoin/Trac Wiki markup, Redcode, ReST, SQL, also MySQL, Squid configuration, TeX, Vim Script, Windows batch files, XML

This is an example of Paste with Incollo.com:
http://incollo.com/7dca5011

You are really welcome to report any bugs or leave a feedback! Remember that this is my very first Django project, and I created it in about 6 days!

Of course, I'm already beginning to think about new features

As I promised, BD-incollo 0.1 is finished and the source code is available in the project page under the GPL 3 license.
Every MUST requirement has been done and just two MAY requirements could not be developed in just 6 days. But They will surely be in the next releases.
Sourcecode is well commented using xP standards and there are few comments where necessary, but is should be clear. If not, drop me a mail.
I will write a map that describes the source code tree tomorrow!
The conclusions of this experiment are that Django is really a web framework for perfectionists with deadlines! I spent more time playing with templates and CSS than with the whole python coding! It's a valid alternative to Ruby on Rails, and built on a programming language I really like.
Go and grab the code!

As I promised, I would like to announce the start of a new BD-thing! I'm currently learning Django because of job needing and because of fun. The best way to learn a new language (even if a framework) is to apply it for solving a problem.
That's why I decided to start BD-incollo!
BD-incollo will be a kind of pastebin clone written in Django. Totally free. Free meant as free software. You may download the sourcecode and use it by your own.
Ok, what's difficult with this? I'm planning to release a decent usable version in less than a week.
This means, I want to release the sourcecode on Sunday, 2008-09-28 and also to launch the service on Monday, 2008-09-29.

I believe in Django and I know it will be possible to make it!

Introduction

This guide will help you to install OpenGEU and every other Ubuntu based linux distribution on your Macbook (either "normal" or pro). Even Ubuntu will work with this how-to.
The tutorial is aimed on how to succesfully partition the hard disk and to correctly boot the distribution. For a better post-install configuration I suggest you to follow the Ubuntu Wiki.

This tutorial is also posted on the OpenGEU Wiki
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UPDATE: due to a very serious bug, the rc1 has been retired and replaced by rc2
UPDATE: the release has been delayed for two days

I've just released the release candidate for the final version of the Unix shell written in C language. Now with a very cleaner code and a lot of bugs fixed!

Download it!