Marco Borromeo

Un piccolo post per una piccola applicazione :)

E’ da oggi disponibile sull’App Store di Apple l’applicazione “CAP Italiani”: un database di CAP italiani, con una funzione di geolocalizzazione per individuare il CAP della località in cui siamo.

Al momento l’applicazione non supporta i CAP di zona, che saranno però inseriti nella versione 1.1 di prossima uscita.

Per chi è interessato all’applicazione (in vendita a 0,79€) può trovarla all’indirizzo http://bit.ly/YOL9T (attenzione, verrà aperto iTunes).

A presto con la versione 1.1!

As requested, i’m going to explain how to install Gitosis on Dreamhost (i assume you are Git fan, and you know something about Gitosis).

Requirements: a Dreamhost (shared hosting) dedicated user with SSH access. (create it using Dreamhost control panel). I created an user called “gitdemo” for this tutorial.

Let’s start connecting to your user account and check Git version:

lussuria:~ marco$ ssh gitdemo@marcoborromeo.com
gitdemo@marcoborromeo.com’s password: 
<…>
[moran]$ git –version
git version 1.5.6.5

[moran]$ cd && mkdir src && cd src

[moran]$ wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.1.3.tar.gz

[moran]$ tar xzf git-1.6.1.3.tar.gz && cd git-1.6.1.3

[moran]$ ./configure –prefix=$HOME NO_MMAP=1

[moran]$ make && make install

[moran]$ cd && cd src

[moran]$ git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git

[moran]$ cd gitosis/

[moran]$ mkdir -p $HOME/lib/python2.4/site-packages

[moran]$ export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/lib/python2.4/site-packages

[moran]$ python setup.py install –prefix=$HOME

[moran]$ cd

[moran]$ cd

[moran]$ echo “export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/lib/python2.4/site-packages/” >> .bashrc

[moran]$ echo “export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/lib/python2.4/site-packages/” >> .bash_profile

[moran]$ echo “export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH” >> .bashrc

[moran]$ echo “export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH” >> .bash_profile

[moran]$ . ~/.bash_profile

[moran]$ cd && mkdir tmp
<copy/paste your public key into tmp/id_rsa.pub>
[moran]$ gitosis-init < tmp/id_rsa.pub

PLEASE NOTE: Gitosis, by default, closes you out from SSH access; to re-gain access to your user account used to host Gitosis, reconnect to Dreamhost server with an other user account, and become the Gitosis user using “su” command.

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• Left Yahoo! to work for a startup, Mobango (hey, we are hiring!)
• Learned a lot about scalability and cloud computing
• Improved my Ruby on Rails skills, developing personal projects during spare time
• Learned fundamentals of Erlang
• Started loving document-oriented databases
• Used Google App Engine, and i found it a great platform (still too young however)
• Became a fan of Amazon Web Services (ec2/s3/simpledb/SQS), GitHub, Sandy (put offline some week ago :()
• I got me an Apple iPhone, and i find it great! I learned to code for it, obviously
• 3 of my friends bought a MacBook, and i helped them during the switch from a PC
• Found “Extreme programming” and “Agile software development” very interesting and productive
• My grandma passed away, and this is a sad story
• Continuously looked for a new house, sounds like i found it
• Fallen in love with Team Fortress 2 (Spy FTW)
• Put myself on diet, and i lost 20Kg
• Things-to-do overload has been a constant
• Got in touch with cool and skilled people
• Made a huge culture about entrepreneurship, startups, foundings, business plans

A good year, after all.

Hi all, fellow ex and new readers!

As first good 2009 proposal, i decided to restart blogging… but not in Italian this time! (at least, not only in Italian…)
I never had a not Italian blog, so please don’t hate me if my written English is not so good: i’ll improve it (with your help, i whish!)

Have a nice 2009!