Building software since 8, got a PhD in Software Engineering and experience in research and industry across 4 countries
I am hearing a lot of persons interested in open-source and giving back to the community. I think it can be an exciting experience and it can be positive in many different ways: first of all more contributors mean better open-source software being produced and that is great, but it also means that the persons […]
Lately I have spent a lot of thoughts on building repeatable processes that can be trusted. I think that there lies the difference between being an happy hacker cracking out code for the fun of it and an happy hacker delivering something you can count on. What makes you a professional it is a […]
Recently I worked on improving the testing and the Continuos Integration (CI) configuration for a few open-source projects. In particular, I have spent some time on WorldEngine, a world generator written in Python, which uses a C++ extension named plate-tectonics. There have been several issues, the main two are: the deployment of the application […]
Unit tests: there are people out there surviving without, but in many cases you want to have this life insurance. Something to protect you from slipping an error, something to accompany your software also when you will have long forgotten it and someone else will have to figure out how to maintain that legacy […]
I happened to have a few hours free and I was looking for some coding to do. I thought about VLC, the media player which I have enjoyed so much using over the years and I decided that I wanted to contribute in some way. To start helping in such a complex process there are […]
In the last year I faced many surprises when running some well tested code on my dev-servers or my laptops. It is curious (and scaring) how code that has been widely used in production (sometimes for years) can still hide portability issues so that the first time you try that piece of software in slightly different conditions […]
Our interests often are the sparkle to start a pet project. For example, I am interested in world generators and because of that I created Lands: an application which simulate different physical phenomena and produce as outputs different maps (for elevation, rivers, biomes, etc.). After many experiments I finally understood that a critical component of […]
Today is my last day at TripAdvisor, where I have been part of the personalization team. I have joined this office a few months after it was started. When I arrived there were less than ten engineers and I was the second of my team, with the first being sent over from the USA. We were […]
I spent a couple of hours playing with Frege (Haskell on the JVM) and not much documentation tutorials seems available. I am trying to help writing this simple Hello World tutorial. The code is available on Github: https://github.com/ftomassetti/frege-tutorial/tree/01_HelloWorld Update: Frege has some very useful documentation at http://www.frege-lang.org/doc/… where … represents the package, or module, name. […]
Recently I played a lot with Clojure while building a civilizations simulator named civs. I really love building applications at the REPL and my Clojure code is much clearer and easier to read than the Java code I could have written for it but… when you need to refactor significantly your code it is going […]
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