Monthly Archives: January 2012

Jan 30 2012
Giovanni Degiorgi, Me

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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Jan 18 2012
Rails, Ruby, Win7

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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Jan 17 2012
Vacation

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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