Riccardo "Battlehorse" Govoni
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29-Jul : Death of an infrastructure
Ok, this is a potentially long story. I usually don’t write them because it takes me too much time to consolidate my thoughts on paper (keyboard), and anyway most of the people won’t consider this. But, what the heck, if Joel Spolsky can write about pretty much everything, I can do it as well.
29-Jul : Rhizosphere!
Rhizosphere is amongst us! Rhizosphere is my most recent project and is an innovative approach to help you navigate and filter through your data. Lightweight, web-based, intuitive, its purpose is to provide a simple but effective way to flow through your data, isolate them, filter them and help you locate that information that you know it’s there, but it’s lost amidst the noise.
15-Jun : Railtrackr Tags browsing is live
I’ve released a new version of RailTrackr that includes tag browsing capabilities. Watch this introductory video and play with it on www.railtrackr.com !
24-May: OpenSocial article on DevX.com
DevX.com has published my latest article, an introduction to OpenSocial and how to write OpenSocial aware gadgets and applications. Read the full artile OpenSocial: the power of social networks in your applications , or see my full list of articles for other topics.
13-May: Train Power!
Today I was at the Google office in Amsterdam, to shadow a training session directed to some of my users (aka, the users of the project I work on). Even though the training wasn’t directed at me, I learned an important lesson. Use the trains!
16-Apr: Borg now supports Google Talk chatback
A new feature is now available on Borg is available! Borg is the software which is responsible for this whole site and it’s based on Ruby On Rails. Check this link for further info. You can now integrate a live chat on your pages using the Google Talk Chatback feature.
16-Apr: OpenID and Rails authentication on DevX.com
DevX.com has published my latest article, an introduction to OpenID and how to integrate OpenID authentication with Ruby on Rails 2.0. Read the full artile OpenID and Rails: Authentication 2.0 , or see my full list of articles for other topics.
17-Mar: Closing down Gullery and replacing with Railtrackr
Loyal to the good practice of eating your own dogfood I have removed from this site my old Gullery image viewer and replaced it with my own Railtrackr . Now the link images.battlehorse.net points to my Flickr photosets.
16-Mar: RailTrackr.com is now live! Developers welcome!
RailTrackr, a web 2.0 Flickr photo browser, is now live and available to everybody on Railtrackr.com ! In addition to that, a new development website has been started to support Railtrackr. Railtrackr is currently opensource and will remain so. Developers are very welcome and I invite you to join the project at Railtrackr Devsite (hosted on assembla.com). The project page on this website won’t receive further updates and will point to the new development website.
12-Mar: RailTrackr article has been published on DevX
DevX.com has published my latest article, an introduction to Ruby on Rails 2.0 that uses RailTrackr as a sample application to describe the topic. See my full list of articles for other topics.
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10-Mar: RailTrackr: Rails 2.0 meets Flickr!
RailTrackr is a brand new project I’m working on. It is a Rails that merges together rails 2.0 with Flickr APIs to provide a stunning visual experience to navigate Flickr photosets.