Farewell matteopenzo/blog welcome Yellow Line

Posted on 27/02/2006 by admin

After something more than 3 years on Blogger I’ve now finally made THE decision.

The switching to the english language expanded my user base on one side (BTW since this is going to be an English blog, I’ve imported just the posts written in English), and my blogging activity on the other side. I also needed something that could automatically track my asides such as Flickr and could easily handle tags; something with a great WYSIWYG editor and a great free template base: I’m not a designer anymore, I’m not a CSS guru, I don’t have time to fine tune the Xhtml. That’s why I moved to WordPress for the CMS/engine side and to Squibble for the template (something on the frontend side will probably change as the time goes by).

I’m still a WP virgin, I certainly need sometime to browse/play with themes and plugins, for the moment there’s some AJAX magic on the comments and search engine thanks to Squibble.

The blog name also changed: you’re now enjoing Yellow Line (you can find more info on the name here). If you already subscribed to the feed just sit down and relax, I already managed Feedburner to point ot the new feed; if you haven’t subscribed yet, do it now.

The content receipt won’t change too much: just a little of personal life, Eyetracking, Innovation and Mobup.

Enjoy.

P.S. Thankyou Simone for the WordPress installing and initial configuration and the FTP permission settings.

Mobup on tour: first speech

Posted on 24/02/2006 by admin

Yesterday we were hosted by the wonderful people at the Milan Java User Group: the seminar room at the Mac shop was really crowded and I was pleased to see a couple of known faces among the public.

Our slides (available online) on the strategy, user experience and technical aspects on Mobup raised a lot of interest (we mobupped some photos while speaking), it’s always cool speaking to smart programmers who make smart questions and suggestion.

We’ve also been so lucky to be invited in another couple of Italian Java events (one of those is really HUGE), more on this in the time coming.

Mobup in Sun headquarters

Posted on 24/02/2006 by admin

Being in Sun is probably something like being near the gotha of Java, you can thus imagine our happiness when we were invited to join the guys from the Java Mobile Developers Forum this morning for a day packed with great presentations (albeit I was forced to leave the seminar just after lunch, damn).
Note: I’ll have to carefully follow the operations behind the launch of Handango Italy: its 19 yrs old country manager is really unusual fir this country but looks really prepared.

We showcased Mobup; well probably I’d say I just introduced the philosophy behind Mobup while Vincenzo took the listeners down to the source code for the rest of the speech. But we talked to programmers and programmers’ stuff was their bread.

I’d really like to thank Edoardo Schepis from SUN/JMDF for the opportunity and the friendly atmosphere we found (mad props go to Stefano Sanna, probably the greatest of our new – shall I say – friends)

While waiting for Edoardo’s photos you can take a look at some of the shots we mobupped at the beginning of the seminar.”