I spent some time playing with the Open Data published by the City of Milan, aiming to visualize public transport coverage. While I managed to create a heatmap, I was left unsatisfied by the data presentation and format. The initiative is promising but could be dramatically improved by adopting modern standards like GeoJSON instead of Shapefiles and including simple preview capabilities.
A while ago I wrote about a few problems we were having with the way our issue tracker was misused and concluded that the tools we use have a crucial role in directing our behavior towards good or bad...
As I already had the chance to write in a previous post, I really appreciate distributed version control systems; I consistently use them at work and for many of my side projects. I typically switch b...
I had been thinking about the idea behind this post for a while now, but reading this post about getting newbies involved in open source just convinced me to write it down. Being a concept developed i...