August 2011
2 posts
The chronicle of an IT tragedy
Preamble: I’m working at Spreaker, an innovative startup about live streaming and podcasting based in Italy. Spreaker is widely deployed on the Amazon Cloud Computing infrastructure, we use different services, including EC2, S3, EBS.
Now, imagine an almost perfect summer sunday evening. Chillin’out with friends, drinking a cold beer, everything seems so good.
Wait, something starts...
An iOS Developer Takes on Android
nfarina:
Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.
We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.
We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are easy to...
July 2011
3 posts
A new era for PHP
In the last months a very vibrant community has been grown for PHP. I think that most of the credits for this has to be granted to two amazing projects:
Github gave to all of us a great collaboration tool
Symfony2 is bringing the whole PHP environment to the next level. A level never seen before.
These are some examples of what’s happening in the PHP world:
Silex: a great microframework...
When Eclipse doesn't start....
Sometimes Eclipse can be a real pain in the ass of a developer.
Eclipse use a sort of “index” for advanced features like code assist, and if something goes wrong when that index is built, the IDE can freeze during the startup.
The only trick I’ve found to exit from this kind of deadlock is to remove an hidden file in the workspace.
rm...