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2009 final considerations. 2010 year of the Phoenix?

About a year after the creation of bd-theme-zen WordPress theme, I decided to switch to a new theme. The new theme is monochrome The reasons behind are simple: unfortunately, 2009 has totally been not a Zen year for me. Many things have not gone as I thought they should have been. Many other important things

Dycapo, road to 0.0.1

I’m doing some refactoring to the code and writing some useful documentation for the first pre-alpha-dontuse version of Dycapo (a.k.a. DyCaPo – Dynamic CarPooling system). Dycapo 0.0.1 will only be for illustrating some functionalities of the system and the integration of the technologies. The following is an explanation of our version codes: 0.0.x releases are

Integration of HTTPS, rpc4django, HTTP basic auth fully working

Today I was able to remotely call methods of Dycapo using HTTPS and HTTP basic auth. Can’t wait for the next version of rpc4django! 0.1.6 should give us the possibility to also access the authenticated user object inside the exported functions. We are also waiting for Django 1.2 that will give us the possibility to

On the automation of API writing and XML-RPC serving for Python Django

While searching for solutions on adopting Django for the server side of our Dynamic Car Pooling system, I found two very interesting projects: WAPI – a framework which abstracts the details involved in publishing an API and translates class methods to API methods, serializing the objects returned when possible. WAPI handles authentication, too, and other

Update: first UML diagrams, some implementation thoughts

My third meeting at FBK is about to end. Today we discussed about some use-case, sequence and class diagrams I wrote during the week. Obviously there were lots of changes after the discussion and I will post them as soon as I’ve updated them. For the next time I will take a look at some

Gnome on Debian Sid and ekiga+libpt problem solved

If you are running Debian Sid (i386) and are trying to install Gnome using apt-get install gnome You will probably might be disappointed because of problems regarding gnome-desktop-environment, ekiga, ptlib (libpt2.6.4) and opal (libopal3.6.4). Everything seems related to a missing 386 version of libpt2.6.4 on Debian Sid. Also libpt2.6.4-plugins is missing. Packages are also reported