I want no monuments

Con i ragazzi di ArabianFenix, sta per cominciare il lavoro che porterà alla migrazione del CMS PHP-Fusion verso AJAX.

Per la gestione del progetto useremo Trac e Subversion. Essendo argomenti nuovi, ho scritto un paio di articoli sull’argomento.

Buona lettura!

Following Florian Haas post on FSFE, I want to replay here my own comment.

I think the nineties saw a poor marketing of free as in freedom. Therefore the term “open source” was necessary to spread the word. And I agree it was an incorrect word.
Latest years saw a pretty good popularity of free software and a wide spread of open source. And open source is still important for the spread to keep on.
More and more users understand it is not just open source and it is quite impossible to find someone from the technical who doesn’t know what Linux is.
It is a task of the old users, those who NOW use free software, to help young users understand the different meanings of the words in the FOSS acronym.
And to invite new users by talking to them about freedom (and national finance): maybe the time is more ripe now.

Yeah! It took about 6 hours (you know, first ebuild, never seen python before…) but here is the ebuild to have Mapnik on your Gentoo box.

Bugzilla entry

Now it’s time to use it and create maps. We’ll see.

One solution could be not to try to get an ebuild for Mapnik, a very nice software for maps creation.

That is my first “serious” ebuild for my lovely gentoo box, but I’m stuck on an annoying error!
It (emerge) is complaining with a bunch of
ACCESS DENIED: open_wr

Let the night bring suggestions…

I’ve found and helped solving a bug in the Criteria object of Torque, an easy and intuitive ORM by Apache.

Ottima iniziativa dell’Hacklab di Caserta!

Una lettera aperta ai nostri ministri affinchè adottino il software libero ANCHE per ridurre la spesa in software e sistemi che ogni anno affligge le casse statali, qualcosa di simile a 900 milioni di euro!

Se almeno quei soldi finissero nelle mani degli italiani, invece che finire in america o in qualche altro paese extraeuropeo…

Firmate la petizione!: la lettera verrà stampata e inviata il 20 luglio!

http://81100.eu.org/petizione/

Finally I managed to have a good looking site!

The theme is really cool, expecially the “pull” string in the upper right

Now I won’t have any more excuses to save you from “yet another opinion” ;)

See you soon!