As I promised, BD-incollo 0.1 is finished and the source code is available in the project page under the GPL 3 license.
Every MUST requirement has been done and just two MAY requirements could not be developed in just 6 days. But They will surely be in the next releases.
Sourcecode is well commented using xP standards and there are few comments where necessary, but is should be clear. If not, drop me a mail.
I will write a map that describes the source code tree tomorrow!
The conclusions of this experiment are that Django is really a web framework for perfectionists with deadlines! I spent more time playing with templates and CSS than with the whole python coding! It's a valid alternative to Ruby on Rails, and built on a programming language I really like.
Go and grab the code!

Time for a review. Thanks to the always useful DistroWatch.com service, I discovered a new Gnu/Linux distribution, called gOS. gOS stands for Good Os, born in 2007 in California. The version I'm reviewing is the so-called "gOS 3 'Gadgets'", their third release. gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, and the final release is to be expected in the next 1-2 months.
This distribution is built around Goggle apps and services, comes with Google Gadgets for Linux pre-installed, as well other nice programs, like Google Picasa, Wine, Mozilla Prism for Google web applications and Wbar as launch bar. I've never heard about this bar, it's very quick and light. Good choice! The distro also includes proprietary codecs for multimedia content.
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BD-theme is a widget ready, two columns Wordpress style, written using the default Wordpress theme as php/xhtml base. The theme is inspired by TorrentFreak rounded layout, and some little ideas are inspired by Curved Theme, which was the old BD-blog theme.
I just wanted to write my own Wordpress theme.
This is my first theme, and my first try to design something nice. Source code is available below.

If you like BD-blog theme, then download BD-theme =)

Download:

• 2008-11-27 - version 1.0 beta 1
  Changes from 0.9:
  • Change of dtd: from xhtml 1.0 transitional to xhtml 1.0 strict
  • Yes it's VALID Xhtml
  • Navigation links now present in every section of the theme (archive,single, index etc)
  • Ready for Get Recent Comments and Recent Posts, both recommended and displayed at the page footer if installed
  • New logo system that checks if IE6 is present and presents an alternative page without logo
  • More space for content is given
  • Post headers (title and date) are fixed for every browser
  • Fixed some css bugs for those wo do not use the sidebar
  • Lighter css! more standard but still not finished
  • Screenshot:
    

    BD-theme 1.0 beta 1 screenshot

  What will be next:

  • CSS fixes for IE6
  • Cleaner Code

• 2008-09-19 - version 0.9
  Changes from 0.8-experiment:
  • Fully Compatible with Mozilla Firefox 2/3, Internet Explorer 6,7,8, Google Chrome, Apple Safari
  • More harmonious and stable
  • Links to pages are now rounded corner buttons
  • Buttons for pages moved over main layout, added a button for accessing the blog posts
  • The current page link button gets the same background color of the content page
  • Post header layout changed: a very nice band contains the title of the post and the date of posting exits the main layout
  • Various CSS fixes
  • Screenshot:
    

    BD-theme 0.9 Screenshot

  What will be next:

  • CSS bugs totally fixed (I hope :D)
  • Theme has to pass w3c's xhtml/css validations
  • Theme has to remain compatible with all browsers

• 2008-08-21 - version 0.8 - experiment
  About:
  • Quite everything changed in the last 6 months, but the colors
  • This is the source code of the experiments done from the post of 06-06-2008: BD-theme’s new look
  • NOT to be considered as a stable release, code is very dirty (but almost functional)
  • It's the base I've been using since 7 days for the final release, It's available because somebody may like it more than the next version, or to modify it
  • An image helps more than a thousand words:
    
    

    BD-theme 0.8, the Experiment

    
    
    

    BD-theme 0.2 - Classic

• 2008-02-21 - version 0.2
  Changes:
  • fixed a:hover transparency bug in #pages
  • fixed .entry links and img
  • added a stlye for blockqoute
  • fixed some values of the searchform in the sidebar (safari fix)
  • added a style for the links inside the #footer section
• 2008-01-24 - version 0.1
  First version, download it just if you want to customize it or to create a new theme based on this one. I'm testing it on my blog. It may contain "useless" code from the default Wordpress Theme

Cnet ha da poco postato un articolo che denuncia da parte dell'High Technology Crime Investigation Association l'uso dei browser alternativi (come il grande FireFox, o il veloce Opera) come impedimento per le indagini investigative. La stessa Cnet prende a mio avviso un po' in giro Exploder, scrivendo:

Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited,[...]
Investigators know the location of the IE browser cache, cookie files and history, and they know how to read those files

Insomma, Exploder é un browser lento, non supporta bene XHTML, si inventa tag suoi e non supera nessun test CSS. Neppure la futura versione 7 non é in grado di superare l'acid test.
In veritá nessun browser la supera del tutto, ma se FireFox arriva a rappresentare almeno il 90% dell'immagine creata, Explorer 6 rappresenta solo i colori della faccina che se vede creare, andando a disegnare sullo schermo un bel quadro impressionista di forma quadrangolare. Explorer 7 fa la stessa cosa, e questo significa che questi (3? 4?) anni di sviluppo sono serviti alla m$ solo per agiungere il tabbed browsing...

... E non fa nulla per garantirci un po' di privacy ... La sicurezza in piú dei browser alternativi sta semplicemente nella diversa organizzazione dei file, i loro nomi e la loro localizzazione.
Grazie al cielo esistono alternative..
Cosa devo ancora scrivere per farvi passare tutti a FireFox? Ah si, le sue estensioni per aumentare la privacy! http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/list.php/Firefox/privacy e https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?application=firefox&category=Privacy%20and%20Security