Andrea Olivato’s Blog

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 to [...]

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 everything [...]

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 to make [...]

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 [...]

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 set [...]

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 GPL [...]

Yesterday night I couldn’t sleep so I started developing a new usplash theme. I realized just the main loading effect but I believe that with this background the theme can become really nice! If you want to know more, go to the project page ->
Note that this theme is a pre-release version, not even [...]

Setting up a svn is not a big deal on any linux box. On Linux Feed server, which is running Debian Stable,it’s just a matter of

$ sudo apt-get install subversion
$ sudo mkdir /var/svn-repos/
$ sudo svnadmin create –fs-type fsfs /var/svn-repos/dummy-project

and add the right permissions. However if you want to create more trunks, manage more users with [...]