I just received the Mastering Magento ebook from Packt a few hours ago, I’m really out of time in these weeks but I wanted to share a couple of thoughts from the first look at this book. If you’re a Magento developer, than get it, from a really quick view (I’m gonna review it later) I [...]
A lot of things are moving in the PHP ecosystem, but it seems to me that those things are going a little bit out of control and I’ve a few philosophical questions… PHP 5.4 Hey great, we’ve traits and a built-in web server. Hemmm what about the damn UTF8 support? It’s 2012 and still a [...]
As I wrote a few days ago, I was asked to review the Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook by Packt so I took the right time to read it deeply and with great attention to point out every pro and con of this mid-length book (249 pages). First of all the book is available at a [...]
The title is obviously rhetorical, let me explain. First a bit of introduction, this is an hi-end pc, it has an i7 processor, 8GB RAM, blu ray burner and a 1080p (1920×1080) LCD panel, there are no excuses, this is a quite expensive machine and must be perfect! I bought the notebook a few months ago [...]
As I wrote a few days ago, I was asked to review the Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook by Packt so I took the right time to read it deeply and with great attention to point out every pro and con of this mid-length book (249 pages). First of all the book is available at a [...]
I think this post is not useful anymore, now that VMware release their first PHP API for vCloud, anyway I’ve this little code I wrote as an experiment a few months ago that maybe could be used by someone having an old vCloud (the code you’ll see is wrote to work with VMware’s vCloud 2.5) [...]
Once I had a blog on wordpress.com, when I moved to my own domain I kept the old site alive just as as an old things archive (everything was imported in this new blog anyway so nothing is lost). Starting today fabrizioballiano.wordpress.com is not available anymore, it simply did not make sense anymore. Have a [...]
I’m not a Batman fan (actually I’m not fan of any superhero movie…) but I read a lot of good reviews of the last Batman movie (The Dark Night) that I decided to go watch it. (picture by wikipedia) One word: AWESOME. I found it amazing, dark, powerful, evil as I was expecting after reading [...]
I was browsing the new Lancia Delta website, selecting my language, clicking on “enter the website”, skipping the intro and clicking on the “discover” link (I can’t provide a direct link ’cause it’s all flash). Here I found a weird behavior, try using the scrollbar on the right and you’ll find it by yourself: the [...]
… if the servers are down? UPDATE: mozilla.com is up now but pointing to a strange release candidate page (showing 2.0 releases + some 3.0 rc3). UPDATE 2: mozilla.com is down again (Http/1.1 Service Unavailable). UPDATE 3: yeah, firefox 3 is out, really :-)