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  In the last couple of years I’ve been working on various projects that – unfortunately – still use Subversion as their version control system. I moved to git already a few years ago and I wanted to keep using it as much as possible. Luckily git-svn is an incredibly complete tool to interact with [...]

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I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s inherent to human nature to strive for and to create order. Maybe it’s just me. But I love staring at branches and I love cleaning up my commit history until it shines. This is of course possible and encouraged with git and it’s only possible if you [...]

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Lately I’ve been really impressed and experimented joyfully with Compass and Sass. They make css/layout design fun again for me. Even if the whole tool chain is in Ruby you don’t have to touch any Ruby to use them – don’t misunderstand me: I like Ruby and I’ve been a Rails early adopter; my brain [...]

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Here is what a coding session of mine looks like when I am in full swing. This is specifically the coding screen. That’s a 1920×1600 resolution screen-shot . I obviously also have a browsing screen not shown. In the image above I am immersed into integrating Compass into Pinax (full post on that will follow). [...]

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Am I the only one to notice that there is a lot of vim love in the airwaves recently? I saw the trend very clearly, spanning from reddit to news.yc and let me say that the material that came up recently is very good; those neat posts prompted me to improve my vimrc dramatically and [...]

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This is the scenario I was thinking about: I want to interact with a graphic designer remotely, who is very very good with Photoshop and HTML/CSS but who might have trouble setting up the Linux environment needed to run my web app. What I would like to build (or find if it already exists) is [...]

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One of the first things I implemented for tuttivisti – to add just a hint of viral marketing to the project – was a widget that you can import on your own blog, maybe on the sidebar, to show the latest movies you either want to see or just watched. Let me test it here [...]

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In the first installment of this series I’ve spoken about a set of technologies that can speed up the time to market quite a bit. Read about it here if you missed it. This time I want to talk about where to get the content for your niche web app – if you need a [...]

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Quick one liner to list the ubuntu packages you recently installed on a machine. I needed this to copy the configuration of one of my production boxes onto a dev environment: sudo cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep \ installed | awk {‘print $5′} | xargs mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 … apache2

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First things first.  My new webapp tuttivisti is live! This post is about how it came to be. In just one week. One person team. Crazy working hours. So I was there immediately after receiving the news that YC did not select my team for this round. I thought I would feel depressed. I thought [...]

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