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[12 December 2020]

hacktocat

Last october for the 4th year I took part in Hacktoberfest, the month-long global initiative from Digital Ocean to promote open source collaboration. The idea is:

  1. Make 4 pull requests to public open source repositories on GitHub
  2. Digital Ocean will provide swag (tshirt + stickers)

The numbers of this event are around 30k elegible winners worldwide, for 120k PRs of all kind.
The 2020 edition was different for a couple of reasons: stricter rules were put in place to prevent spam, and for the first time I submitted some issues (so I participated also on the mantainers's side) .

After 4 years I would like to tell some anectodes about this event...

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L&D2 - La lotta dei draghi

[12 April 2017]

E quando meno te lo aspetti, ecco il quarto capitolo del manga di Light and Dark 2!

[preview]

Lo potete leggere online qui, o scaricare in PDF qui.

[27 August 2016]

Some time ago I developed this little demo of a canvas-based graphic engine. One year ago I started working on a new graphic engine, built from scratches with these principles in mind: 1) Be able to work on it in the spare time, and with long pauses 2) Shoot for the stars, but plan intermediate goals 3) Don't leave any of the fun parts to frameworks. Usually I talk about a project only after it's finished, but since this is designed to be a long one, here we are... continua »

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[29 May 2015]

[EAI journal 2015]
È stata pubblicata una versione estesa dell'articolo "How dangerous is your Android app?", dal titolo "Android Apps Risk Evaluation: a methodology".

Il publisher è sempre lo stesso, questa volta però non si tratta di un paper per una conferenza ma bensì di un articolo sul journal "EAI Endorsed Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments" (issue 4). continua »

poli android pubblicazioni

[20 April 2015]

Spammers like to place their links on legitimate sites, in order to piggyback on their user base and page rank; managing even this site, I have had the opportunity to see my share of junk traffic.

As years went by, spam comments started appearing once in a while; these comments contained pseudo-tags for URL publishing, such as [link][/link] and [url][/url], so I added a check to filter them out. read more »

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L&D2 Vol. II - La Battaglia dei Draghi

[19 April 2015]

[LD2 Vol.2]

Coming soon(er or later)

[9 January 2015]

Lo scorso dicembre si è tenuta a Londra l'11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2014); nell'ambito nella sessione "Security and Privacy", il mio co-tesista Tao ha presentato una pubblicazione dal titolo "How dangerous is your Android app? An evaluation methodology", nata dalla nostra tesi e scritta assieme ai nostri relatori.

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poli android pubblicazioni

[7 January 2015]

A distanza di 4 anni e mezzo da quando ho teminato di lavorarci (vedi questo post), è stato finalmente rilasciato Specventure Reloaded!

[specventure intro]

Rispetto a come me l'avevo lasciato sono state fatte diverse migliorie: scene introduttive, menù iniziale, nuove animazioni di gioco, miglioramento dei modelli 3D dei nemici... continua »

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