Stories from an Italian Software Engineer
Chrome kwallet and xmonad
During the last month, after the umpteenth Plasma crash, I’m gradually switching to xmonad
The hardest part of the switch has been changing my behaviour from floating to a tiling window system. But also missing my configurations and tools is becoming a problem.
Browser as notepad
From time to time, I need to note something down, from a snippet of code to some lorem ipsum.
Of course, I can open a text editor and paste the text there but is it worth keeping another window around when I already have a browser open on one of my screens?
Juniper vpn on linux!
Are you running a 64bit linux flavor and you are having problem to connect to a Juniper vpn system, even using a 32bit firefox with a 32bit jre plugin as many online pages suggest?
It's a Trap!
I do a big use of shell scripts, and many of them contain a for loop, do you know what normally happen when you press CTRL^C and the script is executing an action inside the loop?
Gmail signature
For a while I had no signature on my email then I started to add a simple “Luca Lanziani” and now I have the following format:
Python - validate command line args
Ok, in the last article I’ve shown you a tool to write a nice command line interface, but it doesn’t help you on validation.
Python - command line interface
How to write a better command line interface with python.
Writing the Nth python shell script I found myself looking again at the documentation of argparse, A NIGHTMARE. After 15 minutes spent trying to understand how to use it, I gave up.
[Ita] Redis - introduzione
- Quali sono le particolarità di Redis?
- Quando conviene usarlo?
- Come lo installo?
- Come lo uso in nodejs?
[Ita] Expressjs - Api per risorse
Vediamo come è possibile combinare quanto visto fin’ora per creare 5 semplici rotte che permettano di fruire di una risorsa. Introduciamo il metodo param e testiamo l’applicazione con curl.
[Ita] Expressjs - Le rotte
Definire le rotte in express, il pattern e i metodi che possono essere utilizzati, le etichette e le espressioni regolari