Rosario's Blog

Mainly as an exercise in recursion and because I needed something quick I decided to implement my own XML/JSON converter. Here follow the code with the explanation.

It’s now time to clean up some of my old projects and publish this little iOS game I made last year. I had two main objective: 1) Make some money and 2) Learn the basic of Swift.

It’s time to up your game tech recruiters. Learn something about programming, at least the very basic terminology and get to talk to developers in a professional way.

Parliamo di caffè e startups. L’Inghilterra scopre il piacere di bere un buon caffè. Non solo, da bravi inglesi pensano anche a farne un business. Ci sono infatti almeno tre startup che iniziano a vendere caffè online.

Ghost is a very interesting blogging platform written in Node.js and it features a good, simple and modern theme called Casper. I really like Casper and I wanted to port it to Jekyll. The result is Kasper.

A short guide for all the hackers willing to live in London.

Adding a Chat box on Last.fm is easier than you think. Here’s a quick hack.

Non andate a lavorare. Dopo la laurea, studiate quello che vi serve per far partire una startup.

Say you want to buy a virtual phone number, and you’d like to redirect calls to your mobile number. There could be different reasons why you’d want to have another phone number, without having to carry a physical phone.

Using the new getUserMedia it’s possible to send a stream of images over websockets. An experiment with Node.js and Pusher Pipe.

Mobile phones don’t need to download fullsize images. Although responsive images are still a work in progress, there’s a quick way to save bandwidth and load small images for mobile phones.

How to setup Sprockets without Rails. Self referencial association with DataMapper. Delayed job for Sinatra.

Can we embed a chat widget on Twitter? Yes, with few tricks and Pusher we can create a widget and chat with our Twitter friends.