Nicola Fontana
Posts by Nicola Fontana for Random thoughts: collection of unrelated material:
PIIX4: from VirtualBox to qemu/kvm
After having tested qemu/kvm and given the clear performance boost, I decided to port all my virtual machines under virt-manager (the GUI front-end for libvirt).
- Posted in Software,
- Admin
- Posted 6 months ago by Nicola Fontana
Deleting a validated invoice in odoo
I generally tend to stay away from administrative software: I find it way too complex and severely overengineered, most likely because I don't know the subject.
- Posted in Software,
- Odoo Admin Python
- Posted 3 years ago by Nicola Fontana
Configuring certbot-nginx for OpenResty
Recently I have switched webserver from nginx to OpenResty, the latter being an NGINX "flavour" with integrated Lua scripting support.
- Posted in Software,
- OpenResty Admin
- Posted 4 years ago by Nicola Fontana
luarocks 2.4.2 for Debian
Again, after a project required to deploy a Lua based system on different Debian distro, I have been faced by the problem that the LuaRocks provided by the official channels…
- Posted in Software,
- Lua Debian Admin
- Posted 9 years ago by Nicola Fontana
Cross-compiling gobject-introspection
The cross compilation of gobject-introspection from linux to mingw has been proven a really tough task.
- Posted in Software,
- C Python GTK
- Posted 11 years ago by Nicola Fontana
Offsetting cubic Bézier curves
While working on the ADG, we implemented BAIOCA, a new algorithm for offsetting Bézier cubic curves.
- Posted in Software,
- C
- Posted 11 years ago by Giandomenico Rossi and Nicola Fontana
Optimization of array cycles in Lua
A common pattern is to use Lua tables as arrays: there is no other data structure so the choice is imposed.
- Posted in Software,
- Lua
- Posted 11 years ago by Nicola Fontana
luarocks 2.0.13 for Debian
Lately I am working quite intensively with the Lua programming language.
- Posted in Software,
- Lua Debian Admin
- Posted 12 years ago by Nicola Fontana