I just completed the development of a flash plugin for the Advertisement module. The plugin is available here.

With this plugin you can add flash ads to you Drupal website and track different stats for it.

It is also able to override hardcoded urls in the swf files. Then is it possible to track clicks on those files. This feature uses some swf url convertion code from the Openads project.

Today Steve Jobs will do his keynote at WWDC 2007.

There is a lot of excitement for this event as probably he will reveal what will be the next cool products by Apple.

Probably we will have lot of news on the next to be launched iPhone!

So.. if this event interests you below there are some websites which will coverage Jobs' keynote live.

engadget.com

I use Thunderbird as my email client. I'm very satisfied with it: I spend a considerable amount of time writing/reading emails and Thunderbird has always been a wonderful tool for this.

Two features I always missed from Thunderbird were the ability to sort the different accounts on my profile to my taste and defining a default start up folder.

I'm studying for the course of "Programming Paradigm" (traslation of Paradigmi di Programmazione) where we study different programming approaches by using some new programming languages.

The first programming language we are using is ocaml, a functional programming oriented language (for more informations read the ocaml Wikipedia page).

As first exercise we have developed a simple math expression calculator: for example given a string like (3*2)+5 the program is able to calculate the result.

Did you ever had really bad experiences with a customer services call center?

Well... I did! Actually I've been satisfied by customer services and call centers just few times.

This is why I really enjoyed the Call Center Movie.

Enjoy it!

When I installed Arch Linux on my notebook I choose to install LILO as Boot Loader.

Why? Because, as a long time Slackware user, I didn't use GRUB enough and I didn't have the time to learn it.

Unfortunately, maintaining an Arch Linux system with LILO as boot loader is quite tiring because every time the default kernel is changed lilo needs to be reinstalled.

A List APart, the web designers webzine, is doing a survey about the different aspects of the web profession.

UPDATE August 2009: this article is pretty old now. During the past years there have been new stuff coming out, most notably Mollom. I'm currently using it as a spam filtering tool and it's working great. Please take the following consideration as pretty outdated.

During the past weeks this site has been targeted by some bots which posted spam comments.

As soon as the spam comments appeared I started deleting them using Drupal comments administration however, as a spam comment was received every 2-3 hours, this was not an affordable way to keep my website spam free.

The Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer is a cool Firefox extension I recently discovered.

By uploading your bookmarks to your FTP server or using Foxmarks.com it let your bookmarks to be synchronized between all your different Firefox installs you have on multiple computers.

The main ArchLinux ftp server recently had some bandwith problems due to a lot of people using it has their main mirror for their pacman updates.

This issues have been fixed by the archlinux administrators by throttling the bandwith of ftp.archlinux.org. This means that downloading from it will be extremely slow.