A programmer’s paranoia

Flash must die. Yes. There’s no room for Flash in near future. Flash is an outdated technology. It has not reached the Goal and it never will. It was born as the Holy Grail of Dynamic Web during the times when “Javascript” was a synonym of “Virus”.
I survived those times. Very bad times indeed when [...]

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Now that I’ve started to make some social life on social networks I had to implement a shield that protect my eyes from very bad writing (I come from tech sites like slashdot and similar that are full of grammar nazi). If you are sick (as I am) of seeing: OMG????? loooooooool!!!1oneone and you use [...]

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If you are in an Apache webserver, like me, probably you know what mod_rewrite is. This Apache module is able to output very nice URL that are SEO-friendly. For example now you are reading my blog and my blog run under the wordpress engine. Wordpress make intensive use of mod_rewrite. The main .htaccess file is:
RewriteEngine [...]

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On those days I’m working, on my spare time, at a project for some friend of mine. It’s a PHP project that require an high level of security but also high usability. I’ve not worked a lot with PHP and others tag-injected languages so I’m not that wizard on this particular segment of the programming [...]

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You know that you are an hacker when you manually do a sequencially repetitive task only three times in a row.
Yes I’m lazy. My life is driven by scripts.

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zaerl.com is now up and functional. Old plugin for multilanguage i18n has been replaced with the more advanced xLanguage. One of the best plugin ever made.

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Every single day of my life I watch and use other people code/libraries/programs/framework done in C/C++ ad other languages. I hate a lot of things and this is my personal list of things that make me mad.

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I’ve added a multilinguale support for my blog. It wasn’t a 2 click operation but now I’m proud of my work. I use Quian Quin qTranslate after having experimented with every multilingual plugin avaiable out there. I feel very confortable with this plugin. It create specific language link in the form:
site_name/the-two-letter-language-identifier/the_rest_of_the_link
For example permalink of this [...]

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A couple of years ago I was modifying a little the GNU/gcc compiler cause I was so bored. I was adding the inverted statements to the c++ language grammar. Something like the perlish: “sub-block-statements if(some-condition)” with success too. It seems a stupid addition but it’s far more smart than it seems. [...]

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Everytime I choose to learn something I never think about how much the process will last as well as I never surrender even if I discover, on the middle of the learning curve, that what I’m studying isn’t so useful.
We, computer games programmers, lives in a world in which the base ideas are always the [...]

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