Articoli

237 days ago

ScaraBook, a better delicious

How to manage your bookmarks? I have used online services and applications to install on my server. Despite all, for convenience or laziness, I still go on a search engine. Is possible to make an equally convenient and fast application?

652 days ago

CSS Gallery

Building a image gallery ever lead to a problem: how to show the thumbnails. The solution most widely used is to set the property float: left to the box. But there is a better alternative.

732 days ago

microCSS v3

Upgrade to microCSS to support Internet Explorer 7 and add typography with vertical rhythm.

881 days ago

MicroCSS, a minimalist framework

After seeing some CSS framework I wanted try a personal implementation of a generalist framework, designed to provide the tools for define the page structure. Rather than build a complex infrastructure of rules I tried to find a limited set of rules that allowed me especially flexibility.

887 days ago

Build a YouTube clone

YouTube and all other sites of video sharing are all based on the conversion of video file in the FLV format (Flash Video) and the FLV files will be reproduced via a Flash player embedded in a web page. In the end of 2006 I have played with some free and open source software with the scope to verify if it’s possible to realize a test application like YouTube with no software cost.

1150 days ago

Date of records in MySQL

When a database is planned is often useful, if not quite indispensable, to make available the date of creation and last modification of a record.

1151 days ago

CSS Framework

In the programming it’s always good habit to try to automate the repetitive tasks and avoid reinventing the wheel. Often this means to adopt a framework. This rule is true also for the writing of the CSS, even if call it programming is improper.

1223 days ago

What is Web 2.0

There is a large buzz about Web 2.0 and comes associated to something generically new. New in what? There are so many new things that come spontaneous to wonder which of these represents Web 2.0, or if they are all representing it.

1223 days ago

Blog usability

The advent of the blog has marked a deep improvement in the way to make use the Internet potentialities, social and web design. But on many blogs are still some annoyance