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The Tricky Definition of Done

Most of the times the word “done” has a very subjective meaning, especially when we are in a business context. It can be confusing understanding if a task or an activity has been completed or not. I’ll try to define…Continue reading »

Project Management

The practicality of the Eisenhower Matrix

The Eisenhower Matrix helps you decide and prioritise tasks based on urgency and importance. In fact, it is also referred to as the Urgent-Important Matrix. If you find yourself fire-fighting throughout the day, then you should apply this concept to…Continue reading »

Time Management

Performance Optimisation, my first talk ever

Performance Optimisation from Fabio Cicerchia At the end of 2016, I gave a talk at the PUG Roma meetup talking about web performance. Despite my expectations of a first-time shy speaker, the room was packed with more than 50 attendees.…Continue reading »

Performance

Being really agile, Being really smart

The Agile Manifesto has the following 4 core values: Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsthis means communicate, a lot.Working software over comprehensive documentationif you are working on something that is not working properly why bother documenting what’s doing (and maybe it’s even…Continue reading »

Methodologies

Branching Model: clean-up those repos

Usually most rookie developers don’t use a VCS (Versioning Control System), like SVN or GIT, in this post I won’t talk about the benefits of using one. This post is dedicated to who’s already using a VCS without using a branching model. So,…Continue reading »

Programming

Versioning Numbers, make them meaningful

The version number itself, and more generally the way you manage it, is most of the time underestimated, because it’s considered something trivial.It is used to give a chronological order to the software releases and it conveys the useful information about the state and…Continue reading »

Programming

Retrieve JS Events: how to get all of them

I was trying face an apparently huge problem, collect all the events bound to the DOM elements. Then I realised that the main obstaclewas the browser, yes the browser.Because of the way the browser manage the events. So I started…Continue reading »

Web

Browser Fingerprinting: There’s no place where you can hide

The EFF, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, did a research about the users’ privacy and how it is possible to identify the user in a quite unique way.The concept is based on gathering as much information as possible, like user agent…Continue reading »

Web

[ITA] Gli eventi onMouseEnter & onMouseLeave su tutti i browser

Utilizzare gli eventi onMouseEnter & onMouseLeave non solo su Internet Explorer non sarà più un problema! Basta una funzioncina javascript e prototype. function extendMouseEvents(e) { var elem = e.element(); var target = e.relatedTarget; var p = stop = null; if…Continue reading »

Web

[ITA] Rimuovere le entità HTML (unhtmlentities)

Ecco un modo veloce per rimuovere tutte le entità html da una stringa: function unhtmlentities($string) { $string = preg_replace('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'chr(hexdec("\\1"))', $string); $string = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'chr("\\1")', $string); $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES); $trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl); return strtr($string, $trans_tbl);} questa funzione sostituisce sia le…Continue reading »

Web