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I’ve decided to dig a bit into Erlang. The setup has been painless. I first installed Macports (look here for a step by step guide). With this installed, to install Erlang is a single command: sudo port install erlang Then I looked up the recommended development environment. What a surprise: a lot of people suggest [...]

Recently I tried to give some other Python editors/IDEs a chance. I tried pydev for a while and found it good enough, but not perfect. Truth is I have been using emacs for a long time for development. And I found myself quite comfortable to develop Python code with it. With a proper shell on the [...]

Life is like a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. – Jim Morrison So tonight I had a very interesting conversation with Chiara about many things. At one point the “law of the mirror” came up and I think it’s so deep and true that [...]

Right. Given the fact that July 31st I’ll have to hand in my company laptop I’ve decided to invest a fair chunk of my last salary to buy a new one. One powerful enough to stand heavy coding sessions and running multiple virtual machines at the same time. One beautiful in design and with a [...]

Time has passed since last time I wrote a blog post. I kept a blog for a few years, few years ago. I almost forgot I did actually. If I find the motivation I might get around reimporting all that old stuff at one point.But I warn you my old blog was in Italian, so [...]