Those who know me, know that I have a big problem with sleeping. That's not I sleep too much (7/8 hours at a time, as most other people) but that's I shift my bedtime at innatural hours. Usually I go to bed at 4:00/500AM, and it is

Aside the usual web-based applications I hack on (mostly for work), a thing I like to do (or at least try to do) is desktop programming with GTK+ framework. For that kind of stuffs I recently switched to Python, in order to be more productive than C (and thanks to

I had to implement an OAuth2 server on my application. Easy, with the great oauth-server-laravel module. But on Laravel 5.2 I had some issue in correctly routing the requests. Or, to be more precise, on routing as desired. Required behaviour: use the auth-code flow (already implemented on the client

Due a real-time communication requirement in a project, yesterday I began to dive into "websockets" (more precisely, with Ratchet). And I had the same impression that NoSQL-mania previously gave to me: those "blazing fast new tool!" promises are completely false. Yes, that kind of tool itself is faster for sure.

Recently I switched the iterative process implementation/feedback/implementation with a customer of mine from mail-based communications (...) to the popular Trello. And I embraced the joy of kanban model. Well: at least, it is better than messing mails around... So I decided to apply it also for my own activities.

You know: those days it is hard to keep order among the many files (and related generated and derivated files) a modern website is composed by. Aside to write things, you also have to "build" them. In the best scenario you still have to compress Javascript, compile your Sass into

Recently, initially for curiosity and then again by inspiration of the #RIPTwitter trend, I stumbled upon GNU Social, the FSF's effort to keep the social network platform once known as StatusNet (and formerly identi.ca) alive and up-to-dated (while the original StatusNet developer started from scratch with the pump.io

I've been asked to create a script to permit people with no direct access to a server to perform pulls from a git repository for specific applications, using their own credentials (to avoid leaving plain-text passwords or valid SSH keys around), so to publish their own changes on-demand (and without

When you have a single web page in which you dynamically display and hide different parts, usually the document enlarges ans shrinks accordly. The problem is when you hide somethings and the document lower point happens to be above the bottom of the viewport, causing a shift of the document

A freesoftware application I'm currently working on is mainly intended for very non-technical users managing potentially complex stuffs (suppliers, products, variants, orders, bookings, accounting...), but it contains many options and assignable attributes to fullfith many different scenarios which often impact the overall behaviour of the system in unexpected (or hardly-to-be-expected)

In a Laravel project, I needed to connect to multiple databases given the live configuration provided by the user. All comments found online were about invoking configurations saved in the proper config/database.php file, just not my case. After a little investigation into the core code, I found this

Follow-up of previous hacks around OpenStreetMap and geodata, with a pair of new tool implemented primarily to find an answer to some of my own curiosities. First. I live in a big city, I don't own a car and relay on public transports for most of my movements. Recently Car2Go

I was working on a small hack involving paths on a OpenStreetMap map, and I found the public, free service provided by Project OSRM to calculate car routes beetwen two points. But I've been disappointed by the fact the public server was often unavailable due the high rate of incoming

I had to include some pluggable component in my latest Laravel application, a (variable) set of functions acting as "drivers" to fetch and parse contents from different sources. As always I browsed Packagist looking for a package providing this functionality, but I only found module managers intended to extend the

As all of the web developers out there me too have often to deal with graphic designers, photographers and other "creative" people. Most of them, for historical reasons, are Mac users. And I almost daily receive some compressed archive of mockups and assets, in which I regularly find the well-known

I've implemented the design pattern of "add and remove rows from a grid" in a HTML form so many times that probably it is better to publish here a snippet of code to be recovered the next time... The following example is styled with SemanticUI: all classes containing many-rows are

Second (unexpected) part of the previously mentioned adventure. My application has been deployed successfully before the summer, than, as always, in the month of August everyone forgot about the emergency. Which emergency back just in September. I had now to notify ~3000 users about their new credentials on the new

Months ago, I've been asked a solution to publish tons of files to tons of users, each able to access only his own documents (it was about fiscal and burocratic documents monthly generated by a consultancy agency). First option: extend their existing website to include a private area on which