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JUG members having a drink. From left: Bruno Bossola, Marcello Teodori, Renzo Borgatti, Antonio Terreno, me.
I’ve just finished to write a summary about the JavaDay on the JUG Torino Wiki.
It’s only in Italian, sorry, but a nice English report can be found on Renzo Borgatti’s blog, that has passed this day with me and […]

I spent some time playing with Linux From Scratch, installing it in a QEMU box. The idea was to create a tiny and optimized Linux distro to setup some virtual machines for several purposes.
While it is surely a valuable educational experience it’s also time consuming, error-prone, and a not much rewarding work.
I finally come up […]

Too sleepy now to write anything about today. A picture is worth a thousand words (I hope).
Uhm… just one thing: Greg speech was amazing!
Nevermore without Maven and Jetty!
Update: more photos.

Ubuntu 6.06 running on Qemu (Windows Host)
I like the idea of "Virtual Appliances" that can be ran with VMWare Player. Therefore I had some playing with VMWare Server to try building a "runtime environment" for J2EE applications. Maybe because it's still in beta, I failed setting up a working system getting several strange errors [...]

Torino is the first date for the Italian JavaDay ‘06: the technical conference dedicated to Java and organized by Italian Java User Groups, Java Italian Portal, and Java Italian Association.
JavaDay is a roadshow that will touch several cities in the whole Italian country, bringing Java to places where usually are not included in big […]

If you use a lot the command line shell you may like to have a “Run Command Prompt from this folder/drive” context menu on explorer:

How to do that? Registry hacking:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CMDShortcut]
@=”Run Command Prompt from this folder”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CMDShortcut\command]
@=”C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /k cd "%1"”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\CMDShortcut]
@=”Run Command Prompt from this drive”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\CMDShortcut\command]
@=”C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /k cd "%1"”

Just create a file called CMDShortcut.reg […]