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)
According to Netcraft, BD-blog recently broke the wall of top 50k in the most visited web sites. And finally, the RiskRating of the url reached score 0 (I don't know why, but it had a minimum RiskRating for almost two years).
Anyway, here is the screenshot of the site rank:
I'm so happy about it!
Sabato 22 Settembre ho avuto il mio primo live con i Morak, a San Doná, sopra Trento. É stato fantastico! Il pubblico eccezionale, un casino della madonna! Acclamazioni, applausi, urla, cori, poghi, corna, richieste di bis! Eccezionale davvero!
Abbiamo letteralmente spaccato, nonostante le casse spia fossero sempre in saturazione e voci + tastiera non sentissero nulla =)
Per dare un piccolo assaggio, ecco qui il video della canzone piú famosa, The Ghost Age:
L'intero concerto é stato ripreso da un nostro fan (Kino), con un cellulare, a lui vanno i nostri piú sinceri ringraziamenti!
As you maybe already know, my permalink structure of the blog was of type http://bd-things.net/year/month/day/title-of-the-article/
I've just updated the permalink structure to this new one: http://bd-things.net/title-of-the-article/
This is nothing difficult, you can set it in Wordpress control panel (Options->Permalinks)
The problem was that, if I just updated the settings in WP control panel, all the links which pointed to my articles, written in forums, mailing lists, etc, would have been broken. I needed a mod_rewrite rule. And I'm a noob about mod_rewriting.
After some googling, I found this awesome mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet which brought me to the solution (after about 30 x /etc/init.d/apache2 reload ):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)/$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
You just need to add two new lines in your mod_rewrite rules, as you see:
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)/$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
The line basically means:
take the urls which starts with a year (200x) / continue with a month / continue again with a day / contain some text / (with or without the final slash / )
re_write the url just like this: /contain some text/
This document contains some precious definitions about Introduction to Programming, with Java as programming language supported. All of these definitions do not come from my mind, I just wrote a summary of the exhaustive teaching material of prof. Diego Calvanese of the free University of Bolzano. You can read his whole work at this url: http://www.inf.unibz.it/~calvanese/teaching/06-07-ip/lecture-notes/
I hope you will find the following interesting and useful. Enjoy it! (more...)
You can find your favourite linux distribution at linode.com, a great hosting service where I'm transferring my blog and all other services I need. They offer great cheap VPS solutions, and you can choose Archlinux from the available linux distributions.
Archlinux is currently in testing: for example, ssh will not work after a fresh install. Here I'm going to explain how to fix this and how to access your VPS.
After the installation of Archlinux, if you try to connect to ssh, you will receive this error:
ssh yourUsername@yourIP ssh: connect to host yourIP port 22: Connection refused
That's because Archlinux does not install the openssh server by default. Let's install it!
Linode offers a workaround to connect to your machines, called Lish, the LInode SHell. From this shell, you will be able then to connect to your machines.
ssh yourLinodeUsername@yourLinodeHost.linode.com
Where yourLinodeUsername is the username you chose for Linode registration, and yourLinodeHost is the host address of the machine (you can see it in this page, after a login: https://www.linode.com/members/remote.cfm, it's in the form hostNUMBER).
You will be then prompted to Archlinux console. Use your root access and install ssh:
pacman -Sy
pacman -S openssh
Add sshd to your deamons array in /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(... sshd ...)
If you try to connect to your account via ssh, you will get another error at this time, because you need to allow external internet connections to the ssh daemon.
Your /etc/hosts.allow should look like this:
sshd: ALL
Start opensshd (/etc/rc.d/sshd start) or reboot the machine, you're finished!
