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Announcing Pomodroid release for the general public

February 14th, 2010 bodom_lx No comments

I’m very pleased to announce that Pomodroid, a project on which I worked for three months with a University mate, has now been released for the general public.

Pomodroid is a Java/Android application that interacts with a Trac system, retrieves developer’s tasks and lets him work following the basic rules of the Pomodoro technique.
Pomodroid focuses on basic features of the technique. It does not focus on advanced techniques, such as the prediction of the number of Pomodoros needed for an activity. See “Features and limitations” for more details.

Welcome Activity

You can read more on the official page of the project, which is http://task3.cc/projects/pomodroid/.
The projects still needs some cleanup because of internal features used in the University that are not of interestet for the public. It is also very limited right now. Everybody is free to download the code and contribute. It will be soon published on the market. Enjoy!

A running Pomodoro

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Announcing Pomotux, a free Task Manager implementing the Pomodoro Technique

September 28th, 2009 bodom_lx No comments

Pomotux is  a C++ activity manager for the Pomodoro Technique created by Francesco Cirillo, a member of the XPlabs crew. The program focuses on the basic features of the technique. It does not focus on advanced techniques, such as the prediction of the number of pomodoros needed for an activity.

Activity Inventory Sheet

Activity Inventory Sheet


About the Pomodoro Technique

The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method that can be used for any kind of task. For many people, time is an enemy. The anxiety triggered by “the ticking clock”, especially when a deadline is involved, leads to ineffective work and study habits which in turn lead to procrastination. The aim of the Pomodoro Technique is to use time as a valuable ally in accomplishing what we want to do in the way we want to do it, and to enable us to continually improve the way we work or study.

The Technique is heavily explained on a 60+ pages book published on the website. Please visit the official website for more explanations.

A running Pomodoro

A running Pomodoro

We implemented Pomotux for the Software Engineering Project course, and it currently works under Gnu/Linux. Project page is located here. We are looking for coders to port it under Mac Os X, *BSD and Windows!

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Announcing BD-review, a free platform for music reviews written using JavaEE

July 29th, 2009 bodom_lx No comments

BD-review is a dynamic website to allow people to review releases (albums, demos, EPs, singles) of (young, unsigned) music bands. The project is the outcome of the Internet Technologies course at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bolzano. The requirements of the project were to build a website using a small subset of JavaEE technologies, without the use of web-frameworks.

A screenshot of a Review

A screenshot of a Review

The project is not really meant for production use. It was made as a strong, working and correct base for studying JavaEE academically. It should be useful for every student (also non-student) willing to have an overview on JSP and study it. The code is well-written, uses MVC, and the whole project is documented in detail in a 20+ pages report.

Read more on the project page, download the sources and play with it! Please let me know about your experience with BD-review code.

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BD-incollo 0.9 is out!

July 26th, 2009 bodom_lx No comments

It took me about one year to find some time to enhance my project BD-incollo. I worked hard for 5 days and to add new features and fight the (huge) amount of spam that was wasting my database space. Now I’m very proud to announce bd-incollo 0.9, a free, light, speedy, anonymous Pastebin clone written in Python Django. This version introduces a lot of new features, including the possibility to make diffs between pastes, and fights spam using Akismet. Read more about the features on the project page and on the new News section on the website that makes use of BD-incollo, incollo.com .

BD-incollo 0.9 is free software as always, under the Gnu Affero General Public License 3.

Currently, you can:

  • Copy, Paste and store a text / source code snippet to the system
  • NEW! Give other people the possibility to discover your Paste (make a Paste either public or private)
  • Decide to colorize the syntax of the Paste
  • Share it using its URL
  • NEW! Enhance Pastes! Create a Paste starting from an old one
  • NEW! View differences! Makes use of the powerful diff-match-patch by Neil Fraser to see differences between two Pastes
  • NEW! Antispam protection using Akismet and akismet.py by Michael Foord
  • Download it as plain text
  • View it as plain text
  • Search something interesting through other pastes!
  • Report abuses to site admins

It also uses a very smart hash system that automatically re-computes a hash key in case of collision.

Here is an example of Paste: http://incollo.com/f341e6a4b
Here is an example of enhancement of the Paste: http://incollo.com/ba22929ac
Here is a full-screen diff of the Pastes: http://incollo.com/compare/f341e6a4b/ba22929ac

Play with them! Use incollo.com, spread it!

Road to 1.0

1.0 development will start after my next examination session (on September) and will surely include:

  • Some asynchronous improvements
  • The possibility to teach Akismet about Spam and Ham in Pastes (when admin user is logged in)
  • More cleaner code
  • The possibility to associate a user to its Pastes via a Cookie (always anonymous) and let him delete them
  • Comments to snippets?
  • What else? Contact me if you’ve got ideas!

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2009 is a Zen year! Announcing BD-theme Zen

January 5th, 2009 bodom_lx No comments

2008 has been a

chaotic, beautiful, uncertain, loving, annoying, sad, inciting, exciting, claustrophobic, happy, insecure, agoraphobic, free, ugly, closed, wild, lonely, impetuous, serene, safe

year for me. It has been a year of changes.

I would like to enter this new year in a Zen way. I would like 2009 to be a year of tranquillity and serenity.
I want to free me from heavy, non-important details. I want to be more minimalist.

I want to focus on essence rather than on appearence.

While I’m preparing to act in this way, you can enjoy mi first step, the most easy one: a new Wordpress theme.
You can see BD-theme Zen working on my blog, but you can also download it and modify it under the Gnu GPL license (v.3)

Enjoy.

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BD-theme released!

December 8th, 2008 bodom_lx No comments

I’m very pleased to announce the final version of BD-theme! For those who don’t know, BD-theme is a widget ready, two columns Wordpress theme. It is written using the default Wordpress theme as php/XHTML base.
The theme is mostly inspired by TorrentFreak rounded layout.
BD-theme exists just because I wanted to write my own Wordpress theme.
You should probably see this theme in action on my blog, or on the testing site .
Anyway, here is a screenshot:

BD-theme 1.0

BD-theme 1.0


BD-theme is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict as well as valid CSS 2.1 (check the testing site against W3C validators)
It has been checked with all the most popular browsers: Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.x and Firefox 3.0.x, Google Chrome, Opera 9.62.
The theme is free software and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License. You are free to use and/or modify the theme under the conditions of the license.
You can obtain the theme on its project page:
http://task3.cc/projects/bd-theme/

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