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A new adventure is about to start. And this time programming has nothing to do with this ;)
Tomorrow I'll leave for Seychelles islands for two weeks holiday !
I'll visit Mahe, Praslin and La Digue plus some minor small atollos (Cousin Island,Coco Island, Coconout Island, Fregate Island and more).
I'm a diver so I can't wait to explore the deep Indian Ocean ;)
I'll be back on 27 July !
FlexGala, the italian Flex and AIR community, is 2 years old. It reaches great numbers : more than 2000 registered members, 600 unique daily visits, 40.000 unique pageviews. This is an awesome success for a RIA community in Italy.
So it's now time to hear the thoughts of people that join and make the community itself. We've created a quick survey that will allow FlexGala to know your feedbacks and ideas in order to improve and better calibrate the next contents and events of the community.
The survey requires no more than 2 minutes to be completed (in italian language of course). Thanks for your support.
It's too cool : Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net
This Christmas holidays have been the most long of my life. The last six month of 2007 have been very intensive for me: Comtaste grew, we hired new people, we took new interesting projects plus a lot of consulting and training activities on Flex development, I've finished my Flex 3 Solutions book and many other things
... So I've arrived at December done and I needed a break to recharge my strenght for the new year.
I decided to visit one of the Caribbean island (Gran Bahamas) and then I travelled from Miami to Key West. It was a wonderful trip and I enjoyed all the time !
Now I'm ready and I'm full of news. So keep updated on my blog ;)
If you're a Flex, Flash or AIR developer, plus you have a Wii, plus you play Guitar Hero 3 you can't miss the coolest GH3 tour group ever :
The tour group was created by Peter :)
Feel free to invite me to your GH3 contacts. My ID is marcocasario (of course).
This is my homepage !
This is too fun. I have to blog it (thank to Juri , you're the man).
Open Google.com, search for "google chuck norris" and cick on I'm feeling lucky. This is the result page of google :
Today has arrived my first number of Retrogamer a magazine entirely dedicated to retro gaming.
This month there is a special on Speedball 2 and about the Sega Game Gear handheld console (I have one).
If you love classic video games this is the magazine made for you !
I'm preparing my luggages. In a few hours I'll leave for Santorini, Greek for one week holiday.
I'll be back by 22 of July.
Santorini is a small, circular archipelago of volcanic islands located in southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km south-east from Greece's mainland. It is also known as Thera (or Thira, Greek Θήρα, IPA: ˈθira). It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km² (28 mi²), and in 2001 had an estimated population of 13,600. Santorini is essentially what has been left from an enormous volcanic explosion which destroyed the settlements thereon and led to the creation of the current geological caldera. Its spectacular natural beauty along with its eminent nightlife make the island one of Europe's top tourist hotspots.
FlexGala and AUGItaly, the Adobe User Group for Flex and RIA Development, is one of the Media Partner for the O'Reilly OSCON Conference in Portland, Oregon on the next 23 July :
Join over 2500 open source developers, gurus, experts, and users July 23-27, 2007 in Portland, Oregon for OSCON 2007. This year's convention will include 40 tutorials that go deep into the technology behind open source innovations and over 400 sessions focusing on Administration, Business, Databases, Emerging Topics, Java, Linux, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, Web Applications, and much more.
O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2007
July 23-27, 2007
Portland, Oregon
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I'm back to my holidays from one of the most beatiful places on earth : the Maldives.
I was on the Ari Atollo at Kuramathi and I had the possibility to dive with turtles, mantas, sharks ...
It was incredible !
Now I'm ready to start working ;)
I will be out of the office for all of this week on a 'long-overdue' vacation.
I won't access to my email accounts until 6th February !
See you soon !
This is the first time I use my blog for a non technical issue.
But recently a friend of mine started a cool blog to teach women in becoming a real bit## and nasty girls:
http://scuoladistronze.blogspot.com/
Everyone can partecipate and join the community but so far they're all women !
It's not a new Flex 2 technology instead FlexFrame for Oracle is the first dynamic solution based on Oracle Grid Technology – for more efficiency and quality.
On 19th October in Milan will be the SOA Symposium Conference, and if you're a decision-maker and someone in charge of data centers, IT architecture, infrastructures, maintenance or support, you can learn about the benefits of fully integrated, dynamic end-to-end infrastructure solutions for applications based on Oracle 10g grid technology and can evolve toward SOA.
The conference seams to be very interesting but I'll be out for the MAX so I won't partecipate.
Yesterday I was in Verona for the Ennio Morricone's concert.
It was the best concert I've ever seen !
The Arena is a sweet and wonderful place for concerts and when the Soprano Susanna Rigacci played with the orchestra and the chorus Ennio Morricone's western soundtracks ( A fistful of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in America and The good, the Bad and the Ugly ) it was the top !
Thanks to my lovely girlfriend who made me a gift !
For those who doesn't know who is Ennio Morricone (where did you live these last year :) ) see his biography on Wikipedia.
I promised that I never blogged about results of my football team during this World Cup , Italy, but yesterday we played a fabolous match !
Italy strikes 2 golas to Germany just 90 seconds of the surplus time remaining and penalties looming.
Still, Germany team has never beaten the Azzurri at such affairs !
We're in the Final Round !
Google Video Store To Show News and Historical Videos from ITN, Charlie Rose Interviews; New Titles Will Be Added Everyday
Live from the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Google announced the planned opening of the Google Video Store, the first open video marketplace enabling consumers to buy and rent a wide range of video content from a major television network, a professional sports league, cable programmers, independent producers and film makers. This fast growing collection of videos will include prime-time and classic hits from CBS, a full slate of NBA games from this season and outstanding performances from the past, music videos from SONY BMG, Charlie Rose interviews as well as news and historical content from ITN and new titles being added everyday.
"Google video will let you watch lots of high quality video on the web for the first time. You can search and browse, and we make it fast and easy for you to watch," said Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president, Products. "For video producers and anyone with a video camera, Google Video will give you a platform to publish to the entire Google audience in a fast, free and seamless way."
Available soon, people who visit the Google Video homepage at http://video.google.com will be able to browse listings of video by category from the store or search Google's entire collection of videos by simply entering keywords into the search box.
Additional highlights of Google's video collection will include:
Read the full Google Press Release.
Hope to see also these video in Flash Video format !
Google has launched their Google Pack, a collection of “essential free software”.
It includes :
I missed some applications so I decided to download the Pack and install it ! Forgot ... it's for Windows only !
With Instant Search, find the information you want -- without even hitting the search button. Results instantly appear for Yahoo! Shortcuts and common searches.
From the Press Release :
Today Yahoo! launches Instant Search, an early beta feature that makes the search process faster by providing a way for users to get instant answers. As users type, Instant Search immediately displays the most relevant result for the most popular queries directly beneath the search box. In many cases instant facts and answers are provided in the form of Yahoo! Search Shortcut results and, when a shortcut is not available for a query, Instant Search supplies the top Yahoo! Search web result for the most common searches. Users can immediately access answers by clicking a ‘CTRL Enter’ hotkey once results are displayed.
I was driving in a terrific traffic jam when my eyes saw a small ads about a new project started on 1st August in Rome to add many wi fi hot spots across the city.
Wow, now you can connect for free in many beautiful places and roman villas :
Villa Borghese
Villa Torlonia
Villa Ada
Villa Doria Pamphili
Villa Paganini
and soon you can have new hot spots here :Fontana di Trevi
Campo de’ Fiori
Piazza del Campidoglio
Auditorium
Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere
Piazza di Pietra
Mercati Traianei
Galleria Colonna e piazza Colonna
Aventino
Circo Massimo
EUR
Visit the Comune di Roma site for detailed info or download the pdf. It's a great project !
I will be out of the office from 8/28 to 9/6 on a 'long-overdue' vacation.
Finally my fiancee and I decided where to spent our vacation. We had to spent 10 days and we oscillated between Red Sea and Santo Domingo. We love sea.
So, now we know : Hurghada, Red Sea - Egypt.
And we chose a fantastic hotel :)) : the Oberoi. Immediately I googled it to see their site and I noticed that they published a video (a 15 secs showreel) in Flash Video format !
Oberoi Hotel, Sahl Hasheesh is a luxurious all-suite resort set on the coast of the Red Sea at Hurghada. With 48 acres of palm-filled grounds and 850 metres of private sandy beach, Sahl Hasheesh is a spectacular and dramatic resort. Shady marble colonnades, domed pavilions, atriums open to the sky – the elegance of the traditionally inspired contemporary Arabic architecture are a perfect complement to the setting. Unlike so many resorts, the buildings enhance the environment here.
We decided to book one of 21 Superior Deluxe Suites,a spacious and elegantly with luxurious bathrooms with separate shower stalls. Their sunken marble baths overlook a private open-air walled garden. In addition, there are 12 larger Grand Suites have their own private swimming pool, heated in the cooler months.
The site is very clean and easy to navigate. They had a sweet flash slideshow image gallery and a showreel video in FLV format :) Just click on Oberoi Hotel Video option.
https://www.oberoihotels.com
I found this very cool blog post about 50 fun things to do with your iPod. The list is made up of :
Make your own pirate radio station
Find good NYC pizza
Dress it up
Record audio without extra hardware
Listen to your mp3 collection in the car
Store your photos on the go
Call your friends
Share your music with complete strangers
Find your way in the dark
Look at yourself in the mirror
......
Read the entire 50 things to do with your Ipod post.
He was the world's most charismatic Christian.
He helped topple communism in Europe and left a deeply conservative stamp on the church that he led for 26 years.
He supported for better relations with Muslims and Jews.
Now he's dead but "His Holiness is now at home with God, whom he served so faithfully for a lifetime."
Grazie.
