Flashing 8266 with keyboard maestro

Okay, as many of my firends know I’m playing with IoT controllers, Arduino, NodeMcu, etc. and one of the most frequent things to do with 8266 is flashing firmware to enable different languages or install different software. To do that you have to use the terminal and specify each time the port to which is […]

Proxy

Using a Mac behind a proxy is a no issue if you use native applications. Everything changes when you try to use bash scripts or Python code, so I decided to summarize here (as a memo for a ‘future me’) how is possible to use a proxy in different scenarios. Bash If you want to […]

Playing with Telegram and Python

Telegram is a popular application for instant messaging. Thanks to its new release, it can runs chat bots which can be used to create different services. The concept is simple, you subscribe to a chat with a bot and then you can send command to the bot itself. In this post I’ll show you how […]

Docker and Jupyer for Oracle

In this quick post I will show you how to create a Docker image with Jupyter notebook inside and the required modules to connect to Oracle. If you are new to Docker please check the official site on how to install it, for us installation is out of scope. Getting the image and running a […]

Playing with Oracle and Docker

I’m a software developer and I’m working with Oracle’s PL-SQL for more than 10 years now. Every time I need a development environement I have to setup a virtual machine with Oracle installed: in the past years I moved from a full-manual solution (using Virtual Box + Ubuntu + Oracle manual setup) to an automated […]

Euro Python 2015

In this post you will find the presentation I used for my talk at Euro Python 2015 plus all the scripts I used as example.