Archive for the ‘Programmazione’ Category

Corso introduttivo Joomla! a pinerolo

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Un corso su Joomla! nell’ambito delle iniziative per il Linux Day 2011, organizzato dall’associazione SLiP (Software Libero Pinerolo).

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GeoContent Joomla component ready for 1.7, 2.5 and newer

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GeoContent Plus is a Joomla! 1.7.x and 2.5.x component that let you easily embed beautiful Google Maps or OpenLayers Maps into your Joomla! 1.7.x and 2.5.x website.

GeoContent gives a geographical dimension to your Joomla! website.

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django deployment with nginx and uwsgi

There are many tutorial/procedures on this topic, I just wish to add a few notes on the pieces I’ve found more obscure and difficult to setup. I’m running a VM on slicehost and I haven’t alredy found the resources to perform a full upgrade to something newer than the original Ubuntu Hardy which was installed [...]

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Joomla 1.6 development: meaningful debugging

Hi there, just a quick note about how to stop the nightmare of Joomla 1.6 lack of debugging output. First, you should install  Firebug for Joomla 1.6 plugin : now you can use fb() function to log variables directly in the Firefox firebug panel. Another nice trick I use is to put a vardie() function [...]

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Joomla FAP news

Finalmente, dopo un lungo periodo di inattività, sono riuscito a tornare a lavorare su Joomla FAP, il progetto che porto avanti da diversi anni per consentire a chi lo desidera di usare una versione accessibile di Joomla conforme alla legislazione vigente in Italia. In questi utimi mesi ho lavorato su diversi progetti, alcuni dei quali [...]

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QGIS hackmeeting 2011

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Last week I participated to the QGIS hackfest in Lisbon. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people, most of whom I’ve only known by email or chat.

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QGIS mapserver test drive

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QGIS recently added new WMS server capabilities to its software stack. Breaking into the server world, the new server can read a QGIS project project file and serve maps to the internet. This amazing new feature, really opens QGIS users to a new horizon of possibilities.

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Django DAG: my first reusable app on PyPi

 Django DAG Django-dag is a small reusable app which implements a Directed Acyclic Graph. Usage Django-dag uses abstract base classes, to use it you must create your own concrete classes that inherit from Django-dag classes. The `dag_test` app contains a simple example and a unit test to show you its usage. Example class ConcreteNode(node_factory(’ConcreteEdge’)): [...]

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Right click map control in OpenLayers

Thanks to a post in Spatial Notes Blog I’ve finally found a cross-browser way to handle right click on an OL map, I’ve been using an homebrew solution only to discover how it did not work correctly in MSIE. The proposed solution involves a custom control subclass and the standard OL machinery, the MSIE oddities [...]

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Italian GFOSS Day 2010

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Next week, from wednesday 18 to friday 19, I will attend in Foligno to the upcoming GFOSS Day 2010 holding two tutorials on GIS Python development and on a GeoDjango case study. Like previous editions of this event, it will be another fundamental opportunity to meet the other members of the Italian free GIS software community. Don’t miss this event, if you can!

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