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.
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Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central [...]
I know that this video is everywhere on the web, but, I just find it so cute!
I leaved HP 2 days ago, and in the same time I had to give back my laptop. This laptop was nice, powerful, but a bit heavy for my use (nearly 3 Kg).
I’m now moving into a full time freelancing position, for the first month I’ll start with a contract where I’ll work in the [...]
This week was the Rails Rumble week end.
For them who don’t know, the Rails Rumble is a 48H ruby web development competition. In this period of time your team (up to 4 people) has to create the best web application possible.
As last year, I went solo this year, and came up with Planet Toaster.
What is [...]
This is the good news of the day. I’m leaving HP in one month now, for going full time Ruby On Rails / Jquery / Other stuffs full time freelancing.
I’ll start on projects for a company called Jiva in south Bristol for several months which is an ideal position!.
On these kind words, I’ll leave you [...]
Haa, holidays are coming. I’ll be ending in North of France, enjoying Belgium beer, Nathalie’s grand parents fresh vegetables and … will be a bit disconnected. This will be the occasion for me to put some order in remaining/waiting projects.
But, as last year, I’ll compete at the RailsRumble this year. My app? PlanetToaster.
So I’ll do [...]
I had a problem last week, while developing tweetcetera. I need to use open-uri to open the twitter search url.
BUT, when I develop/test from from my office, I needed to pass through my corporate proxy. Obviously not when I’m at home, and not on my staging/development server.
For the first days I just manage to remove [...]
I’ve started learning Rails and Ruby 3 years ago now, and now all my side projects are made in RoR.
I’ll be ready soon to release my third rails application, but having launched earlier this year serialcooking.com I’ve learn a lot on good RoR good practice in terms of development, deployment and maintenance.
I just wanted to [...]
Nathalie’s (now my fiancee) temporary position has ended last week, and she is looking for a new position in or around Bristol.
Currently working in marketing/web marketing, it’s not the best season/time to search for a new position.
With an average of 1 new job per day, I don’t think she’ll find something quickly.
I’d say that it’s [...]
Loosing data can be quite … annoying. (Photo on Flickr)
The last thing you want is to have a disaster on your server and being unable to recover your data.
I run all my projects and different blogs on one server, hosted by OVH. So I have multiple databases, gems, websites and configurations that I want to [...]
