In the last days I got an exponential grow of spam messages into the guestbook. Since drupal’s guestbook module has some problems with spam- prevention components, I’ve disabled anonymous posting. I’ll enable it again as soon as possible. BTW: I don’t know who will care about this limitation ;)

Last friday evening I made a party in my new house. We celebrated my birthday and also the “opening” of the new house. Many thanks to Roberto for the photos (made with his mobile phone!).

Some days ago I committed lots of changes regarding inotify support. Goodies and improvements have been introduced… I had this code laying on my laptop for several weeks because I wasn’t able to fully test it. An annoying bug afflicting the update index operations was blocking me. But some days ago Jos fixed it, so I didn’t have any excuse :) These are the major changes introduced: event caching: using a small cache it’s now possible to simplify multiple events and prevent high cpu usage when lot of changes occur on the same files interruption handling during the re-index operations: changing the directories to watch during an indexing operation will break the previous job and start a new one other small changes for improving cpu utilization Actually I’m very happy of the first point, but I think the second one can still be improved…

I have to admit that lately I have a really bad habit: I forget to commit my changes to Strigi. In this way I end-up performing multiple commits with different changes inside: from stupid to interesting one. This is a really bad behavior, so today I decided to perform some svn status and svn diff and I made some commits on Strigi trunk. Most of all are just code readability improvement == don’t exceed the 80 chars per line.

In my last message I promised to write some more contents on this site, in order to keep it more updated. As usual I disappointed this promise :) So, what I have been doing in these day? Just a simple answer: I’ve worked a lot. “Work” can be divided in the following categories: office work KDE & Strigi coding Physical work The most important of all is the last one.

In these days I decided to improve the site switching from Joomla to Drupal. I liked Joomla very much because it was really easy and immediate to use. But there was a think I didn’t like about it: the way it handled news. I wanted to have something similar to a blog, and this isn’t Joomla mission. So, after using Drupal for strigi’s website, I fall in love with it and I decided to make “the switch”.

An overview of desktop searching under linux. This speech illustrates: what’s desktop searching what’re the benefits of desktop searching technology what’re the programs availables under linux overview of Beagle overview of Strigi Desktop searchingView more presentations from Flavio Castelli.

Yesterday I’ve made a speech at Gazzaniga’s Lug regarding next KDE4 major features and Strigi. I’ve uploaded the slides, you can find them in the paper category.

A KDE 4 small overview This speech illustrates some of the major KDE4 features. Slides are shorts since has been made for a “wiki-night” :) Kde4 previewView more presentations from Flavio Castelli.

I’m really honored to report that dot.kde.org has published the english translation of my interview for kde-it. You can find it here.