Category: Internet

  • On Staying Up To Date

    There are only a limited amount of hours in one’s day, and in one’s life for that matter. Staying in touch with the IT industry is a must and we all know that. I take for granted that all of us do it diligently, but sometimes I’m too much of an optimist. How do you…

  • Penny Pinching Online Music, pt. 2

    Back in August I wrote how Google Play Music All Access, the music streaming service with the longest name in the world, in just a week had changed the way I listen to and discover music. I did some math, and since August I discovered 13 new artists, for a grand total of 41 new…

  • Google for Sci-fi Writers

    As I am writing the sequel to Us & Them, I often have to do some math. Nothing complex, I just aim at having a coherent sequence of events that map well to space, time, and speed. Google, unlike other search engines, is capable of doing relatively complex calculations in units like AU, light days,…

  • Feed URL Change

    A quick public service announcement. This blog RSS feed’s has changed to: http://feeds.dariosolera.it/DarioSolera So please update your feed readers. This was long overdue, and the reason for the change is to get independent from Google FeedBurner, which is very close to its death. Behind the scenes, it’s still FeedBurner, but this way I’m able to…

  • Open Source Has Changed, And For Good

    Since when ScrewTurn Wiki was half-assedly discontinued, I’m mostly an observer/user when it comes to open source. Excluding random code open-sourced by individual developers, I can clearly see 3 patterns emerging from companies producing open source software. With companies I mean entities that actually pay developers to build software. I’m not getting into licenses and…