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
The story of professionalhousekeeping.it: how innovative technologies may help in making your company bigger than it is.
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
“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
Why this blog?
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
Cron, Anacron and the system.d timers
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
Using a Raspberry PI to serve Java/Spring/Hibernate web applications
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…
Migrating SVN to GIT: the ultimate guide
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