Updated with Pidgin 2.4.0. You can find it here.
Note that some time ago Windows in no more my main operating system, so I do not use Pidgin Portable every day: please let me know if you have any problem.
Pidgin Portable 2.4.0
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Author Archives: Diego Caravana
Webmail Software for Your Server
I’ve made a quick but extensive research for a webmail software to put on my server(s) whose the most important feature should have been simplicity of maintenance and use over completeness and number of features.
The Road to MDA
The most expensive phase of software construction is coding and this is because it’s the less intuitive: it requires constant attention and reasoning, errors (logical or not) are difficult to spot because they are immersed in text that often is long, separated in more than one file, and not written by us.
My Feed is Burning Now
Ok, maybe it’s a period of change for me, so yesterday I’ve added FeedBurner to my blog feed or, to say it better, I’ve added my feed to FeedBurner. I never did it before because I thought that the feed of “my” blog should be served directly and not passing through some unkown entity to depend on exclusively one day (yes, I’m a little paranoid about freedom of speech.)
Gravatars
As a little divertissement, I’ve added Gravatars or globally recognized avatars to my blog, little images of you that are associated to your comments so… comment more often! 
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Nadia Camandona Editore on Facebook
I’ve just created a “page” on Facebook for the company of my wife, whose name is Nadia Camandona Editore.
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Proof that Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Profiler causes no harm
If you ever wondered if SQL Server Profiler can influence negatively your production database servers that you watch every day with love and attentions, then stop wondering because I have an empirical proof of the fact that it causes no harm.
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Pidgin Portable 2.3.1
Updated with Pidgin 2.3.1 + OTR plugin. You can find it here.
The problem with OTR plugin seems to be fixed in this version of Pidgin.
Pidgin Portable 2.3.0
Updated with Pidgin 2.3.0 + OTR plugin. You can find it here.
BTW, after having installed the new version, it suffered some crashed but I didn’t have the time to discover the cause (probably it’s the OTR plugin; in fact, after disabling it, Pidgin didn’t crash again but I cannot say it for sure.)
UPDATE: I confirm, it’s the OTR plugin that causes the crash. Disable it for now, or use the previous Pidgin version.
Amazon EC2 Personal Experiment Terminated
Thanks also to my ignorance of the tool, my experiment in the Amazon EC2 environment terminated abruptly this night with a “termination” of my server instance: I terminated it, thinking that “terminated” meant an equivalent to a hardware “halt”.
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