Go on Lorenzo Bolla

UnshareMe

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Last my weekend project was to write something similar to WeHasLinks. In fact, WeHasLinks is a file sharing website, but I misread it as "We-Hash-Links" and the funny thing is that they indeed hash their links (for obvious reasons…). Anyway, WeHasLinks's links are hashed so that only the user who visited the page is allowed to them.

I liked the idea very much, and I decided to implement it in go, as an exercise! You can find the code on github. A demo is available at unshareme.lbolla.info.

URL Counter in GO

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

After having tinkered with #haskell for quite a bit, I decided that I needed some rest from theory and esoteric concepts, and a more pragmatic programming language to explore.

I've spent the last few days refreshing my memories on Go: I hadn’t touched it for almost 2 years and I must say that I find it changed: for the better.

Here is a short tutorial on how to write a simple web application in Go, and publish it on Google App Engine. The application is not a mere exercise, but scratches an itch I recently had: it counts how many times each of its handlers is hit. So, for example, visiting: http://go-count-urls.appspot.com/hello returns how many times the /hello handler has been visited. You can use it as a trivial real-time tracker.

Time to go home!

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Better go before I break it…

Installing Ubuntu 6.06 on Dell Inspiron 5150

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I decided to switch to Ubuntu, at last. And I'm definitely happy for the choice: smooth looking feel, decent speed and big selection of applications.

Just one "down" point: I spent a whole weekend to install it! Not bad, for a distribution said to be "easy on"… After an afternoon reading here, not finding any useful suggestion for my case, I found the solution.

For me (and my Dell Inspiron 5150) the alternate cd worked. So, just forget the install/live cd and go for the alternate: there are no differences, a part from the fact that you'll have to forget the graphical istaller. hth.