Hi, my name is Nicolas Alpi Web developer freelance, specialised in Ruby on Rails and Jquery languages.
You can contact me at nicolas.alpi@gmail.com or by phone at 0782 640 3019.
You can also follow me on Twitter @spyou or consult my LinkedIn profile.
This afternoon I was looking for a solution to (easily) add rounded corners into some elements of a website we are developing.
After having tried Curvycorners, jQuery Corners without any success (it was completely breaking the design under IE) I finally came to DD_roundies, which use Microsoft VML.
DD_roundies
DD_roundies is a really lightweight piece of code that will [...]
I recently came across a fantastic alternative to the alt+tab command on Linux, it’s called Superswitcher.
Nice features on it
Press the command touch (Windows touch on the keyboard) to display Superswitcher.
To switch from a desktop to another press Command + arrow left or right
To switch from available windows in a desktop press Command + arrow up [...]
I recently came across a blog post about accelerate Ubuntu disk access perfomrance.
You can read it on Smartlogic blog, it’s well explained so I’n not going to copy but I just would like to add some ideas:
You don’t need to boot on a live CD
Where Nick ask to boot on a live CD and mount [...]
I’m just back from 10 days holidays in France. Catching up with family and friends was really good, but what I really enjoyed was my disconnection for all development/web platform during these 10 days.
It’s always a good way, at the end of the year, to do a little retrospective on his work/life and give the [...]
Last week has been a pretty busy week, but I was able to put some time on Tweetcetera.
Appart for some little bug correction, here are the major update that have been done this week
Realtime update in title and tab bar
When Tweetcetera refresh your tweets, it display a little notification on your page displaying the number [...]
\o/ \o/ Tweetcetera is now live! After several development weeks, it’s finally out!.
What’s Tweetcetera …
Tweetcetera is meant to look similar to Twitter web interface, so that you don’t need to learn how to use a new website. But we have added some nice features, which we felt were missing from the original product.
You won’t find [...]
After Shutter, the Skitch like for Linux, I would like to spot the light to a very useful Linux app called Caffeine.
Why is it use for?
Caffeine stop your computer for going to sleep, or just to switch your back light off.
Really useful when watching a video, or during a meting.
You can also add process, that [...]
Yesterday, during a meeting I saw one of a mac addict using Skitch. Like every time I saw someone using a good proper Mac Os only tool, I try to find a proper Linux alternative.
Shutter is the Skitch Linux alternative:
Then I found Shutter. Shutter is the Skitch Linux alternative.To install it on Ubuntu, just download [...]
Since September, I’ve been developing tweetcetera on my spare time. And I’m on the point to release a beta soon (end of the month or earlier)..
What is tweetcetera?
Tweetcetera is a web application I’m working on the spare time. Basically, you login in with you Twitter account, and it reproduce the Twitter web interface with smarter [...]
Rubyflow blog started yesterday a thread called Tools of the Trade, so to reply here is my main tools, I use everyday.
Hardware
As described in a previous post I now use a netbook as main development machine until September this year.
Machine1: Medion E1312,11.6″,Athlon 1.6 Ghz single core, 2 Gig Ram . For all task, it’s really [...]
