As soon as I started planning my move to the UK, I began collecting the more information possible about how music and music business work here. This is what I’ve found so far, but feel free to add your experiences and suggestions in the comments below. Music in the UK…

The ultimate goal of any software should be to solve problems. Our problems. Our customers’ problems. The goal of any software shouldn’t be to pass tests. Neither to get a bunch of shining badges from code coverage and code quality tools. These are tools, a mean to an end, not…

Not so long ago, testing an idea for a digital product was expensive. You would have to pay big money for designers, developers, hosting services, and other software tools. This was before the growth of Cloud Computing and a thriving startup ecosystem. Today’s market is full of resources that can…

I make websites since ’98, it’s a long time. And every now and then, I hear questions like “Do websites still make sense in [insert random year]?”, or statements such as “Websites will be almost extinct in X years“. Nothing lasts forever. But this reminds me the 80s hit song…

The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building modern software-as-a-service applications that take advantage of cloud platforms. At first glance, languages such as Ruby, Node.js and Python seem more suited than PHP to this concept. Nevertheless, PHP can be “12factorizeable” without too much effort with a clever application design. Let’s…

Companies started to rely more on in-house web teams at the expenses of freelancers and agencies. Does this mean the end of the freelancer/agency model? I don’t think so. Unless you’re living in the outer space, you may have noticed a change across the web industry: companies started managing digital…

Nor are mobile web browsers. The problem is that that most mobile web sites still suck. When you publish to Instant Article (or Flipboard or whatever) you are “forced” to put in what really matters: content. …

Some years ago I was satisfied enough that I thought and I could stop playing guitar. I was wrong. — Image Credit: Incase http://www.flickr.com/photos/goincase/5036992322/ More or less twelve years ago I chose not to pursue a career as professional musician. I was satisfied with what I had done until then, and at the same time I didn’t like the professional music scene in Italy. I pursued another passion and started…