Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Javascript, Smartphones

The amazing JavaScript

Javascript, HTML5 and the browser in all its incarnations are quickly becoming the new amazing way of developing applications for the “plain and simple end-user”. On the MacBook Pro Javascript was 44% slower than C (Java only 1.5%). The Javascript Nitro VM on my iPhone 4S was 99% slower than C. On the Nexus 7…

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Mood

Look, dad!

I’ve read from time.com “The War on Pink: GoldieBlox Toys Ignite Debate Over What’s Good For Girls“,  as Slashdot gained my attention with “Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?“. Being an engineer and father of two wonderful girls I am quite interested in the matter. Quite obviously my wife and me wish the best…

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Senza categoria

Guacamole — HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

Awesome. Quite awesome. Guacamole — HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop is really awesome. Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC and RDP.We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required.Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is…

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Senza categoria, Software Libero, Web

Big G or Big Brother?

 Google Criticized For ‘Opaque’ Audio-Listening Binary In Debian Chromium (source Slashdot): Debian, mother of Ubuntu, a major player in the software Libre world always required to have access to the sources of the programs they distribute1, especially in web-browsers. I’m not surprised to read this. I do not use proprietary browser for this very reason,…

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Android, Smartphones

A little too much

In a middle of typical morning I saw the battery of my smartphone quite lower than what I expected so I looked at power usage : Hey, wait a moment, I haven’t used Google Play Music! It must have been working under the wood: Dear Google, I understand that you strive to provide refined, responsive,…

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