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March 2014

#144 - Robots and Makers

Yesterday we dropped by Robot e Makers, the exhibition market dedicated to robotics and makers at the Novegro Exhibition Park. Unfortunately, we didn’t arrive in time to follow the seminars, but we browsed through the exhibitors curiously.
Apart from seeing a full version of MEG (and I keep saying it: I like the design), there are a couple of things I would like to point out above all of them,...

WPAcademy: installing themes in WordPress

Stasera alle 19 sarò ospite di GoodPress per tenere una breve lezione per WPAcademy su come installare e personalizzare temi in WordPress. Si parlerà di temi free e premium, di temi mobile e responsive, di come creare un Child Theme e di come funziona un tema. Il filmato della lezione...

#143 - Arduino Day

Yesterday we went to Arduino Day 2014, organised by the WeMake association.
It was a fascinating afternoon, and I particularly enjoyed two things: the presentation of Arduino Yùn (my reaction was: I want it) and one of the projects on display: MEG (Micro Experimental Growing), an open-source greenhouse, which uses precisely Arduino. It is worth spending two minutes watching the film,...

Removing accented characters from file names uploaded in WordPress

Può capitare, ad esempio durante lo spostamento del sito da un server a un altro, che ci siano problemi con la codifica dei nomi del file caricati attraverso WordPress, soprattutto se le persone che usano il sito sono tante, e hanno il brutto vizio di usare file con caratteri accentati...

#142 - Clinique: something had jammed

This morning I got the email confirming the shipment, with the courier’s tracking number, which also appeared in my private area of the site.
This makes me think that they probably had some problems they realised and either fixed or are working on.
As far as I’m concerned, if it went smoothly, the process itself is good enough to want to repeat the experience....

#141 - Clinique: e-commerce #fail

I got the insane idea of ordering a product from the Clinique Italia website, as it was only available online.
Last Saturday, I put it in the shopping cart, placed the order, and paid, and so far, so good; the buying experience was quite pleasant, with nothing negative.
I didn’t expect the parcel to be prepared immediately, but it will be prepared the following Monday....

#140 - Maremma what an effort

Moving a site or a series of sites from one server to another can be more complex than it seems, especially if there are n particular configurations.
We seem to have done it, though.
I completely forgot to write this post because of yesterday’s marasmus....

#139 - The less you have, the more you spend

And so yesterday, I decided to sign what is practically a bloodletting to contest the appeal to the Supreme Court by the lovely company that doesn’t want to go bankrupt. Maybe we will have a ruling in a few years if all goes well. In the meantime, however, if all goes well in a month or so, we will finally see our severance pay....