What’s happening at Savigano Irpino?

I can’t comment it… please watch the video

Pidgin & OpenFire

Openfire (aka WildFire) a very well known jabber server won’t work with Pidgin, a famous IM client, because of a lack of support by Java in RFC 2831implementation, as you can also read here, here and here.

Before giving up digging inside Openfire awkward documentation and obscure groups suggestions just pick up you openfire.xml file in /opt/openfire/conf and add, just before closing </jive> elements, these few sentences:

<sasl>
<mechs>PLAIN</mechs>
</sasl>

They’ll do the job.

Cruelty, not art

An “artist” from Costa Rica, named Guillermo Habacuc Vargas, put a starved dog as a work of art, the poor dog died there, he did not want anyone give him food or water. This “man” asked some children to chase the dog and he paid them for their dirty work to give him the dog.

See details here (in italian), I hope you’ll also sign the online petition

JUG Torino September’s meeting!

September’s meeting of Java User Group Torino will take place on 21h with this schedule:

• 18.30: Check-in!
• 18.45: Quickie: “What about Hudson?“ by Bruno Bossola (JUG Torino)
• 19.00: Seminar: “GWT, a Web2.0 toolkit!“ by GianCarlo Pace (JUG Milano)
• 20.00: EOF (as usual, maybe having a VeryBigPizza all together!)

You may find more info about the event here.

March’s meeting of Java User Group Torino will take place on 15th with this schedule:

• 18.30: Check-in!
• 18.45: Quickie: “UML for dummies!” by Bruno Bossola (JUG Torino)
• 19.00: Seminar: “Design Patterns by examples: Decorator“ by Domenico Ventura (JUG Torino)
• 20.00: EOF (as usual, maybe having a VeryBigPizza all together!)

You may find more info about the event here.

JavaPolis 2YK6

JavaPolis is at the end, the last session is running now and people are leaving the site. What an event! I met a bunch of people I would never imagine to met, like Kirk Pepperdine, David Booth, Bruno Souza, many evangeist from Sun and many, many more!

I had my speech this morning, and all went well… yeah, it was great! A big room, crowded of interested and, strangely, awake people! (it was 9.30 in the morning :-D)

So…. what more can I say? So much fun, everithing was almost perfect, nice food (and note, I’m an italian guy :D), better if you plan to come next year!!! More will come, now I must leave to come back… see you soon!

Speaking in Prague at CZJUG

On 23th I was speaker at CZJUG in Prague with Filippo, presenting the talk I’m gonna expose at JavaPolis in December

It was a great JUG meeting and also a nice test for myself I feared about my little knowing of english tongue, anyway all went on well and I’m satisfacted about my performance. Also Prague is such a beautiful city, and I enjoyed it very much: I discovered a charming beer, Kozel, a dark beer very tasty!

Thanks to Roman Strobl and CZJUG you may also take a look at the video of this speech here!

JUG Torino’s October meeting

October’s meeting of Java User Group Torino wil take place on 26th with this schedule:

• 18.30: Check-in!
• 18.45: Quickie: “Starting with Robocode!” by Domenico Ventura (JUG Torino)
• 19.00: Seminar: “The Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)” by Domenico Barbieri (Sun Italy)
• 20.00: EOF (maybe having a VeryBigPizza all together!)

You may find more info about the event here.

Who’s that dog?

Who’s that dog watching you from the top of this page? He’s Buddy (also known as BuddyBoy), my faithful friend who, since two years and half ago, is sharing my house. Well, he has been also eating part of my house :-), expecially wooden chairs and tables, but now he’s quite calm (well… something like that!).

He’s a tri-color Beagle, but a cute one :-), even if he’s a little bit overweight now. He has a good pedigree, he won some prizes in local contests (1st among race, 1st among Group 6) and he’s very happy, likeable and he always want to play with people! You may find more pictures on my website.

We’re missing something.

Yes, I think we’re here, in this life, because we’re missing something. Unfortunately we don’t know exactly what, but if we stop a moment and think about the reason we are here, well… I had to conclude that we’re here to find and learn something. If we don’t get it our life will be wasted. So what? Keep on searching, boy, open your ears and your heart, just don’t give up, give you all chances you can.