Andrea Olivato’s Blog

In the latest release of Translate This I fixed a bug which affected wordpress installations that are not located in the root of your domain. This means that if your blog address is something like http://my.domain.com/ everything worked fine, while if you have something like that http://my.domain.com/myblog/ the old version would have returned a 404 [...]

I have been using koego since its alpha version and as today it reached the beta status I decided to write something about it. Koego is not just a web analytics tool with some gadgets for bloggers. It was conceived, designed and realized just for blogs. Even if it is still in development it is [...]

Playing with APIs is very funny, especially if you can obtain a lot, coding a few. This time I realized Translate This a simple wordpress plugin using Google Ajax APIs for Languages to translate the post you’re writing, directly from wordpress administration interface. It was easy to create the plugin but it’s also very simple [...]

Url rewriting is very (very very) important for seo and WordPress users can easily avoid ugly urls like ?p=43 using permalinks in their installations. To achieve the result of a true rewrite (no index.php file in the url) wordpress requires apache mod_rewrite module, and uses an .htaccess file that has the only purpose to redirect [...]

Dropbox is unquestionably a convenient utility for any Desktop Environment. For those who don’t know it, it’s a file sync service, useful to share files beetween two or more computers and keep them syncronized. It’s useful, for example, when you need to keep your home computer up to date with the work one. I used [...]

Recently I added some extra services to my web space, with the purpose to improve some aspects of developing/publishing/spreading applications, which in my opinion are difficult to be handled by a blog. For this reasons I opened a tiny wiki, based on doku wiki, in which I will gather all guides / codes that needs [...]

A few days ago Smashing Magazine, one of my favourite daily readings,  pulicized a WordPress plugin which is able to search the avatar of  a user both from gravatar and from Twitter. As the gravatar one even the twitter avatar is searched by email address so obviously the user will be recognized just if he [...]

I finished realizing the second alpha of Afisufi High Tech usplash theme.  In this release I just added the possibility to show the booting text in the bottom-right corner area, matching bacgkround and text color to the theme. I also finished working on the sources to be able to redistribute them under the terms of [...]