http://www.stefanoforenza.com Stefano Forenza - Personal Blog Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:23:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seems like ISO's reject of some national bodies appeals (on its OOXML approval procedures) got ISO itself in a bad position as a standard organization. Weirdly enough, development countries seems stronger in making their voice heard than other countries. In a joint letter published yesterday, the representatives of Brazil, South Africa, ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/iso-looses-consensum-in-south-america/ A quick update on the new Google browser. They officially announced it. They're launching only the Windows versions. Mac/Linux users forget it for now. Seems like they're working hard to make it available on all the platforms. But something in my head says we can forget it for at least 1/2 months. Maybe ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/google-leaves-freetards-in-the-dust/ Google Blogoscoped published an interesting article along with a comic about a new Webkit based browser from google. Well, I have been able to read only the first pages of the comic, since the server quickly under stress and the admin disabled the comic. (by the time you read this it ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/google-browser-on-the-start-line/ Writing a parser for Apache configuration files presented many interesting challenges. Along with the third rewrite of the parser (which shouldn't considered 'stable' yet, anyway) we tried to fullfill our need of having a more powerful API and managed to make the new API quite pythonic. I thought I'll just post ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/a-new-parser-for-rapache/ Ok, not that I love so much this kind of posts, links lists I mean, but I found some interesting stuff recently: This is not secret, but I didn't know. You can host a proprietary project on launchpad, you just need to buy a subscription for it. As for me I ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/lazy-update/ With Intrepid's freeze being only 2 days far, I finally got Memaker 1.0.1 packaged and kindly sponsored (thanks Emanuele) to Hardy Intrepid. This new version sports a bunch of bugfixes and, most notably, an handful of new themes to create your avatars. As Memaker's upstream is starting the work on the 2.0 ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/got-the-new-memaker-into-intrepid/ Seems like Google is desperate about getting me to make new google friends. Of course the info bubble does not have a close button. Does not disappear even if I: click in the white space of the rest of the page refresh the page with F5. perform logout and login (yes, afterwards you'll ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/google-reader-wants-me-to-learn-more-but-i-do-not-want-to-learn-anything/ This theme definitely caught my eye. It's still the very first version, much still has to be done, but I see a good potential in it, and not many themes like this around. Do you like screenshots, don't you ? What do you think about it ? Do you know any theme ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/flat-theme/ Just a quick note to inform the outer space that we seem to have happily joined China in web censorship matters. Since now Italy was meant to block only pedo-porn sites or heavily offending stuff. By some day though, we are suddenly not able to access anymore thepiratebay.org. This is what ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/italy-likes-china-methods/ These days it seems there's nothing as cool as being a Pitti fanboy. To become a Pitti's fan you too, check this page. http://www.stefanoforenza.com/i-joined-the-club/