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• Password strength: you are doing it wrong

  You, exactly, you out there, that keep building password-strength checkers that suggests one should user punctuation, numbers, lower case, upper case, camel case, etc. etc. You: go back to school and do your math.

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• QR codes in your CV

  I don’t assume anyone to be constantly looking at my CV to see how it changes, so I thought I’d share this. I honestly don’t know what you are going to make of it and whether or not you are going to like the idea, but as you can see in the picture above, the [...]

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• Coping with Technical Debt

  Technical Debt is something whose repercussions are underestimated more often than not. Without managing and/or preventing technical debt in your project, you could soon end up with a codebase that is no longer maintainable/extendable. It is not much different to taking care of your own car. You can probably reach your destination 15000KM away without [...]

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• Drupal – Certified to rock

  Whatever this algorithm they use is, it surely must be based on the contributions they can track based on your drupal.org profile. Although it kind of makes sense, it’s only fair to say it’s not 100% just. I mean, I’ve been working with Drupal quite a long time know, since the good old Drupal 4.5. [...]

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• SSL proxy module – D6 and D7 versions out!

  Hello all. Just a quick heads-up to tell you all that I’ve officially release a module I initially developed when I was back at The Economist: SSL Proxy. Released for both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.

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• Paywall, SSL Proxy, Qualtrics – Drupal modules

  Today I am working on these three modules that I have been keeping on hold for quite some time. Hopefully I’ll get at least SSL Proxy and Qualtrics deployed on Drupal.org today. As per the Paywall, it’s been sitting there for ages: unfortunately it requires quite some time to be purged of some stuff that [...]

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• SOLID Object-oriented Programming

  See also Design principles and design patterns.

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• Blip.tv the vile tyrant

  A few months ago Blip.tv decided, out of the blue, to delete my account on their site. The motivation provided was, I quote, «I’m sorry, but we’ve had to remove your account from blip.tv because we determined that you were posting videos that didn’t belong to you. Sometimes when we find this we just remove [...]

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• Updating the “Software” Page

  Time for updates on my Software page. First, it changed name in a more generic Projects. Most important, I am moving away from using this website for hosting packages and projects’ pages. The only project still fully hosted here is Support Vector Clustering, everything else has moved away: Drupal projects on drupal.org, WordPress contribs on [...]

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• Drupal Italia Association

  Two days ago I decided to support the Associazione Drupal Italia (Drupal Italia Association), subscribing and becoming a supporter member. This is to support the guys back in my country who really are dedicated to this platform. Hopefully this association is going to make the Italian Drupal community stronger and larger, and I also hope [...]

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