Flavio's blog - Part 17
 

Playing the piano with your computer: part 3

Last year I wrote a couple of posts containing interesting sites and applications to play a keyboard online.

The topic is very interesting semrpe, also because not all have access to a real piano at home!
A few days ago, casually, I stumbled upon another Flash web-app similar, and I took the opportunity to talk to both this, both the USB device I use to play my piano Yamaha P90 with Mac (seen here in a photo I did some time ago). …Read the rest »

Wordpress ed i problemi con Google Friend Connect

Edit part 18 April 2011: THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO OFFICIALLY SOLVED WITH THE VERSION OF WORDPRESS 3.1.1: “Check if you’re including the Prototype javascript library anywhere in your WP code. If so, please upgrade it to the latest version. Older versions conflicted with GFC due to a bug in their code.

It was a long time that the WordPress widget Google Friend Connect, that here is in the right sidebar titled “Social”, no longer appeared.

Was not shown any error, nè in Internet Explorer, nè in Firefox e Firebug, there was just an empty space in the sidebar.
I tried to search several times in Google, I tried to change the subject, but the result was always the same: the widget was not displayed.

A few days ago, casually, incappo in this question mail forum Google …Read the rest »

The real way to insert a Flash movie into a page without w3c validation errors

w3c validator image

If you search Google any method to insert a file (movie or whatever it is) in Flash in una pagina web, You find 101 different methods that boast of work and at the same time allow the w3c validation of the page.

w3c validator image, others simply do not work, DO NOT allow other validation w3c.

In short, unclear, especially when seeking help in Italian. …Read the rest »

An interesting guide for Gnuplot

I accidentally stumbled upon an interesting guide to creating graphs using Gnuplot, program which I have already spoken months ago.

Shown are several examples, both in 2D and in 3D, with the addition of the legend to improve the readability of the graphs.

Also shows how to import data statistical experimental (is. text file with a list of values ​​in discrete form).

The guide, although written in English, is the work of an Italian who lives in Canada and works for IBM (strange, there are few Italians who in recent years are emigrating, eh?), and is within this address.

Take this opportunity to remember that, in my usual osx/linux repository, can download binary packages for Ubuntu and OSX versions of the latest CVS of gnuplot.