I recently bought a new laptop. And I realized it’s a game changing purchase for me, I changed a lot my target and preferences. But one thing triggered in me the memories of how – in many years of my
A *nix developer in a Windows world

I recently bought a new laptop. And I realized it’s a game changing purchase for me, I changed a lot my target and preferences. But one thing triggered in me the memories of how – in many years of my
In the years between 2008 and 2013 I ran, together with my wife Paola Pesoli, our first startup. At that time the word startup was not yet invented. Today I may have used the help of many advisors to run
“ombromanto” is the italian official adaptation for “shadowfax”, the Gandalf’s magic and powerful horse. And it’s the hostname for my laptop since I bought one with my money so that I decided how to call it. In these days of
No, I will NOT explain you why I decided the title “Tears in the rain”, and from where this come from. You should know and recognize it. I started programming “computer devices” when I was 13 years old. And this
One of the most common feature we expect from our beloved servers is to perform task on a regular, scheduled basis. And since ever the first solution in mind is, of course, cron. Cron I’m not going to write yet
Yes, it’s true. First time I had this in my mind, numbers were clearly against me. It was the time of the original Raspberry PI, but now the 3 is out since a bit, and I reconsidered the original question…
Once upon a time there was the SubVersioN to manage changes in the code development. Then has been overtaken and replaced by GIT. I will not tell you why, the Internet is full of articles and discussions on it, I