Once upon a time, developers wrote all of their code from scratch. Just for the sake of "staying in control", and having not to bother around mysterious code implemented by someone else (in the wrong way, of course. Eithers' way is always wrong). Then advanced "content management systems" raised, more

At the beginning of June, a major debate raised among the Italian netizens about the enforcement of a law by our Privacy Authority (partly due European Union) imposing to inform all users visiting any website about the deploying of cookies, especially the third-party and profiling ones. The law got harsh

As recently mentioned, everybody talks about "opendata". Especially here in Italy, where "to talk" is the preferred activity. Just for fun I've hacked up a small online quiz game based on informations randomly catched exploring some dataset published on the many (many!) portals endorsed by many different government entities. The

Everybody is talking about "open data", "big data" and similar buzzwotopics. The point here is to gather and analyze boatloads of raw informations for no apparent reason, just to give them later a meaning and, sometime, a usefulness. I've decided to play a little with the same approach, working not

I've been asked to find a solution to programmatically render a video with an image in overlay (to be true: lots of videos, with only the image changing), moving around accordly a predefined path. Challenge accepted! The first idea has been to programmatically generate all the overlaying images frame by

I switched from CodeIgniter to Laravel some time ago. And I'm always been happy about this, as long Laravel kept the same "spatial" and intuitive logic in contents distribution across the filesystem while introducing many little, huge improvements (one on top of any other: Eloquent ORM). Now it is time

All stories have a beginning. This story began at FOSDEM 2015, Bruxelles. Discussing with a friend of mine, it emerged that all of us, nerds and hackers, have side-projects, one-day-hacks, scripts and proof-of-concept to share. But often we do not because we miss a tool to do that. Many prefer