Random thoughts: collection of unrelated material

I'm a freelance developer and the eNTiDi is the emprise I own. ntd is my historical nickname but, being it too common and not having found a free ntd domain, I opted for its extended phonetic version.

My background is automation so the software I develop is usually related in some way to the industrial sector. I enjoy when a program does something real, so I really like programming testing machines in C. I find watching charting data somewhat hypnotizing.

Deleting a validated invoice in odoo

How to delete a validated invoice (or credit note or anything present in the account_move table) in Odoo without having to install modules or writing custom python code. You just need to toggle a flag in the underlying database.

Configuring certbot-nginx for OpenResty

How to configure the NGINX plugin module of certbot with the OpenResty webserver to renew letsencrypt SSL certificates.

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...

Cross-compiling gobject-introspection

The cross compilation of gobject-introspection from linux to mingw has been proven a really tough task.

Offsetting cubic Bézier curves

While working on the ADG, we implemented BAIOCA, a new algorithm for offsetting Bézier cubic curves.

Posted in Software
C Algorithm
Posted 9 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.

luarocks 2.0.13 for Debian

Lately I am working quite intensively with the Lua programming language. I will have to deploy the final system on different linux distros, mostly Debian 7 (Wheezy) 64 bits, so...

Nicola Fontana