Posted on febbraio 6, 2018
WikiToLearn migration, why?
Well, currently WikiToLearn runs on MediaWiki, which is a good model for dealing with an encyclopedia but, when you are trying to build a more structured content, it doesn’t fit. For the release 1.0 we have developed CourseEditor,… Read More
Posted on febbraio 4, 2018
MongoDB for WikiToLearn migration
Hi! Today i want to talk about my experience with the WikiToLearn migration. The problem of every migration is getting your hands on the data in a way such that you can work on it. Starting from the… Read More
Posted on ottobre 30, 2017
Dumbing down every IT solution is dumb
We are seeing an everyday increasing process to make everything easy in the IT world. Every “make your own website”, every “make high performance application with only a yaml” smells bad to me. When you are making an… Read More
Posted on agosto 26, 2017
PKI is needed for micro-services
Hello! Today I want to explain why I think that for a proper micro-service software a PKI is needed. First the problem: when you have a network application you need a way to authenticate one service to another… Read More
Posted on aprile 2, 2017
The magic of ~/.ssh/config
Hi, today I want to talk about the ~/.ssh/config file. First thing about this magic file: if you are using ssh you must have this file, this is a fact. For example, i use git with ssh, because… Read More
Posted on aprile 2, 2017
Micro-services are only half the picture
Hello, today I want to expose my my thoughts about the general hype for micro-services. The first objection that one can move against this approach is that it does not really solve the problem of having the maintainable… Read More
Posted on agosto 24, 2016
SSH and complex configs
Hi! Today I want to talk about the .ssh/config file, for who don’t knows about it is the configuration file for SSH to customize options to connect with SSH. The issue with this file is: it don’t supports… Read More
Posted on giugno 17, 2016
“Once you stop learning you start dying”
Hi! The quote “once you stop learning you start dying” is from Albert Einstein and I’d love to explain why he was right. In the first place, Since I was 10 years old I started my journey in… Read More
Posted on giugno 9, 2016
Ansible automation tool
Hi! This days I’m working to improve my skils about prepare, test and deploy complex IT systems like mail servers or database cluster. To acomplish this I started using ansible to speed up the operation. With ansible is… Read More
Posted on aprile 19, 2016
I’m in the GARR Workshop 2016
Hi everyone! Today I’m at the GARR Workshop 2016, happening within the CNR headquarters in Rome, and I just presented to the audience how in WikiToLearn we work to develop our project in all tech stuff. I was… Read More