Gioorgi is born

I am happy to annouce to the world a new website, which will substitute the old Vamp site

It is Gioorgi.com, the italian blog of Giovanni Giorgi.
Gioorgi.com will also spot a new technology "gym" during the year 2009.

Stay tuned!

The Family site is born

I am happy to announce a new site is born!

The site of my Big Family, is being rolled out. In less then three days, ObjectsRoot.com spoted out a new brand new site. Stay tuned!

Site redesign

After some time, I have decided to start redesigning the content and the look of ObjectsRoot.com
I have slightly reduced the tags section, over-simplifying the access to my huge set of articles. With over 100 posts, there is no need of so much tags.
The search engine will help you to find old articles: do not worry anyway, permalinks will remain valid for a long time!

For a short introduction to the new site look, follow this link

In the next weeks you will see a new site look too, clean and clever... like no one before. Stay tuned!
Updated 14 May 2008: Site redesign is in progress. You will find the new site for the 23th of May. Comments are always wellcome!

Updated 21 may 2008: The basic look is finalized, and will not change.

Updated 6 June 2008: Suggested resolution is 1024x768 or higher. The page is dynamically rendered, anyway an 800x600 resolution is discuraged. Fixed some broken links

Postgres performance tuning

After a bit of work, I have managed to optimize the performance of my Postgresql Server.

I have spent a saturday morning digging around postgresql, using the fantastic komodo editor, and I am happy with the final solution.

I followed  some suggestion on power PostgreSQL site, and now my postgres is blazing fast. For small needs, tuning postgres is easy as working with MySql.
And with postgres you get for free Transaction and PL/SQL without the need to do extra configuration or tuning or your database.

The major trick is extending  the shared_buffer,  and tuning the max_connections, trying to reducing it to the minimum

For tuning max_connections, remember, for instance,  10 max connections can be able to serve about 100 concurrent "real" users; this metric is not valid for robot like wget robot or similia, which generate much more traffic.

Anyway is not difficult to get a fast PostgreSQL installation "out of the box", and the resulting database is very robust.

Why Open Source is important?

Hi readers,
with the beggining of 2008, ObjectsRoot.com will change a bit its face.

!Update on 10th of January!

First of all, all Italian article will be moved to the new "vamp" site, thinked as a news site.

Objectsroot will focus on IT Business and it will host only english content: IT article will remain here, at least for a while.

Portfolio

ObjectsRoot.com is offering its services to some cusomers right now.

Objectsroot revamp of posts

Hi all, dear readers (and spammers too... you delight me with your poor tatics)!
Because my job is getting very very boring, and my private life is full of fantastic nights, I have decided to write a bunch of new articles, and stack them on objectsroot.com.

But Because too much to read is bad, the article will be published in a timed way, and you will be able to see the stack and the publish date on the "Recent Posts" column.
And by the way, you needn't to pay for that future articles, like some other nerd sites are used to do....

Blue Dragon Revision 2

Hi dear spammers, I am an announce.

I love you so much I have decided to auto delete spam comments not already published.

As you know, dear spammers, the anti spam on this site (called Blue Dragon) is able to shutup your nasty posts.

Now blue dragon can also delete them from our big database, because it is so easy to isolate spam from true comments.
I will not keep a record of this spam, sorry

Have nice enlarge day, spammers! 

Blue Dragon: Spam Killer

Hi dear spammers!

I have just finished tuning the latest version of my anti spam-blogging-software, and all the spam have been removed. I am glad to see you loosing your time tring to get some poor bucks from your bogous activity. I hope do you click on my google adverties sometimes, as true friends of mine?

It is an hard work...but someone must shut-up spammers... :) 

This hard work is done by Blue Dragon, a super-A.I. module.

It is super A.I. only compared to the "smartness" level of my dear, poor &  stupid spammers. Blue Dragon is built using simple, effective and breezing technology.

Only a  brainless mind will try to attack it... and  there are lot of them out of there.

Bye bye,

 Giovanni  `Daitan` Giorgi 

Site Update: Happy new editor!

(First published on 2007-01-20)

Hi all, ObjectsRoot now has correct story ordering ontags view!

I am happy to announce I have just installed tinymce on my site.

TinyMCE is a very nice javascript editor, also used in Drupal. What makes tinymce very nice in my humble own opinion, is its easy installation. You do not need complex init procedure: you just tell tiny you want to edit well textareas, and it will do all for you. Because django  (my web framework for the site) has a bit complex way for handling administration pages, this is good news for objectsroot.com.

TinyMCE is a very professional product, and has all the things I like in a text editor.

I remember,  in the dark ages of the 2002, ajax was not yet born.

So in that dark era, I was stunned with a very poor javascript editor product, with a very big license to pay to use it.
I was complex to configure, and a nitghtmare to use.
So I am happy to have a very easy-to-edit blog now, and I will be able to write more and more throughts in a scattered way.
Keep in touch, babies!

Celeste

Celeste

Just Installed!

This is a first post and a test for the lois lane blog system. For addiotional information on the site see the about page