Last Snow Week End on the mountains

Past week end I had the chance to enjoy a fresh 40cm snow-powder on the alps, here follows a list of breathtaking pictures I took and it will start from the view by exiting the car in Andermatt parking place, the weather was just great and the sun shining like in summer.

Nätschen parking place

The best place to snowboard in that location is situated between Sedrun and Andermatt, is called Oberalp and it is probably one of the most beautiful location in the alps.

Andermatt

To reach it you need to take the Bernina Express which in half hour brings you on the roof of the alps.

Bernina Express

 

While ascending with this rack railway you can enjoy the view of the Gemstock, one of the most difficult ski place in Switzerland.

 

The train proceeds thru the valley of the Oberalp and the landscape is something that take you the breath away.

Mountains

Here is a picture of the train station by Oberalp Pass this is one of the train stop of the Bernina Express.

Oberalp train station

After a 3 minutes uphill walk that is the mountain landscape that has been presented to my eyes.

Oberalp train station

On the right you can see the restaurant which lays on top of the train station… For me that was just a speechless landscape!

Looking to the other side of the valley you can appreciate the beauty of the nature. Fresh, untouched powder that later I surfed with my board.

Ski lift start

I managed to arrive on top of the mountain, at the beginning with the Ski lift and then on foot, the panorama was just wonderful.

Top of the Oberalp

And after a whole day spent surfing the fresh snow I went back to Nätschen (Andermat ski field) and I boarded back to my car.

Nätschen

 

 

 

I hope you will enjoy the pictures and the mountain spirit of the alps.

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Lettera al Corriere del Ticino: È determinante motivare i docenti

Riporto una mia lettera di disappunto per dei commenti fuori luogo del capo della divisione scuola del canton Ticino apparsa in data 21 marzo 2012 sul Corriere del Ticino. Ringrazio il giornale per aver pubblicato interamente il mio scritto.

Scrivo in merito alla trasmissione del 14 marzo apparsa al quotidiano, RSI LA1. In questa trasmissione il capo della divi­sione della scuola Diego Erba invita gli aspiranti insegnanti ticinesi ad una mag­giore capacità di adattamento, dichia­rando che gli insegnati provenienti dal­la vicina penisola sono maggiormente impegnati, più determinati e flessibili, e addirittura sono più preparati degli in­segnati ticinesi. Prima di tutto non capi­sco come il signor Erba riesca a determi­nare che gli insegnati di oltre frontiera siano più flessibili degli autoctoni. Forse perchè fanno tanti chilometri per arriva­re al posto di lavoro? Visto che ci sono in­segnanti che abitano nel Sottoceneri e lavorano nel Sopraceneri e vice versa non mi sembra un buon metro di giudizio. In merito alla preparazione, mi domando se gli insegnanti del bel paese siano co­stretti a frequentare la DFA a Locarno co­me tutti gli insegnanti ticinesi, e questo vale pure per i neo laureati delle univer­sità di oltre S.Gottardo. Se non sbaglio questo obbligo cade nel caso in cui il do­cente frontaliere sia già abilitato; le scuo­le universitarie svizzere sono forse di li­vello inferiore rispetto a quelle italiane? Ultimo ma non per importanza, per quanto riguarda la motivazione, se do­vessimo dire ad un docente ticinese di prendere il triplo del salario per un mag­giore impegno, penso che il consenso sa­rebbe univoco nell’accettare l’offerta, an­che a scapito di qualche ora supplemen­tare e qualche chilometro in più; tant’è vero che molti neolaureati ticinesi scel­gono di lavorare oltre S.Gottardo per del­le paghe che sono del 20-30 percento più elevate rispetto a quelle della Svizzera italiana. Per concludere, il signor Erba fa­rebbe meglio a confrontare i salari dei docenti ticinesi a quelli dei docenti degli altri Cantoni, queste disparità a livello svizzero non sono motivate. Gli alunni ticinesi sono forse più semplici da istrui­re rispetto a quelli del resto della Svizze­ra? Mi permetto un’opinione personale, come laureato, impiegato nel Canton Zu­rigo e ragazzo di una docente delle scuo­le medie. Trovo che il capo della divisio­ne della scuola non dovrebbe lasciarsi andare a certe provocazioni ed illazioni, che non solo disturbano i ticinesi, ma in­fastidiscono e demotivano i bravi inse­gnanti indigeni che si impegnano tutti i giorni per far si che il livello dell’istruzio­ne rimanga sempre ottimo. Magari assu­mendo un frontaliere al suo posto avrem­mo un maggiore impegno nel motiva­re i docenti nel loro operato!

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I introduce myself to you

Born in the southern part of Switzerland, I spend my childhood at the feet of the Alps near Lugano’s lake.

After the gymnasium  I moved to Zurich for my studies at the ETH Zurich and finished them in Ticino by the SUPSI Manno as Informatics engineer. I had the chance to work a few months as assistant then I got a job offer in Zurich and I started working as technical consultant for Motive Inc. I traveled24751_376879676386_533451386_3740944_6840910_n around the world and worked for many customers (BT, Telecom Italy, Swisscom, Saudi Telecom and more) where I covered roles as developer, trainer, deployment manager, QA lead as well as technical leader.

Motive got acquired by Alcatel Lucent and therefore I continued delivering my service as before but for a different company.

After 4 years I decided to search new incentives and I changed to a new company: Steria Schweiz AG, where  I’m engaged as software developer and consultant.

285498_10150250932001387_533451386_7528904_5737553_nDuring my spare time I work on http://www.pontetresa.ch, I go to the cinema and I practice sports.

In my sportive career I did the Zurich marathon, the Triathlon in Locarno as well as the “Trittico” (bike marathon) across the Alps.

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Setup Rails development environment on Windows 7 machine

Today I decided to go back to one of my previous interests and start to build a Rails application. I already set up my machine in the past, but since then I formatted it at least three times and I scare nothing left from this setup.

So I decided to have a look at the official guide online, you can find good information on http://rubyonrails.org/, a very useful portal with most of the information you need.

If you click on the “get started” icon you will forwarded to the download page which contains the steps to reach a fully working development environment.

First step:

rubyInstall Ruby (Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. from Wikipedia.org) which is the core of Rails and makes everything possible. I installed the version Ruby 1.9.3 using the windows installer rubyinstaller-1.9.3-p0.exe.

Second step:

rubygemsThe official guide says that we have to install RubyGem, the standard Ruby package manager, but it was already present on my system after the Ruby installation. Anyway if you want to install it by hand just download it from RubyForge: rubygems-1.8.15.zip. After the installation update the currently gems by running:

  gem update --system

and then:

 gem install rubygems-update
 update_rubygems

Third step:

Thru RubyGem you can easily install all the gems via cmdline just running:

gem install package

in that case it should be:

gem install rails

And all the dependencies and the related gems will be installed automagically. RubyGem rocks.

Now everything is in place to start building your new Rails application. I personally suggest RadRails as eclipse plugin (there is also a standalone IDE) as development IDE.

EDIT:

Do not forget to install the DevKit, otherwise you will not be able to start your application, since some gem will be missing. The latest DevKit can be found here: http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

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Lisbon nicest Picture

Oceanografic Valencia

A great image coming from the past summer when I was in Valencia with my friends.

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