Emanuele Rocca
Latest writings
Story of a bug in Ubuntu [2012/09/02]
First steps with Sinatra on Heroku [2011/12/14]
A neat VLC extension to download subtitles [2011/10/10]
Gospel according to Tux [2011/10/05]
About me
I am fascinated by systems of various nature, especially those one can understand, modify and possibly improve. Check the following links to see what I am playing with lately.
Drop me an email if you want to get in touch. My GPG key is: 0xEAF19B60.
Presentations
Here is a list of some of the presentations I have given, together with the relevant slides:
- Developer support in a federated PaaS environment (MSc thesis), 2012/06/14
- Cross-site request forgery, 2011/12/13
- Scalable Applications: design, refactor, host, 2011/10/14
- Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data, 2011/03/16
- Notifica e consultazione del dossier clinico (Italian), 2010/01/20
- SystemTap: applicazioni alla sicurezza informatica (BSc thesis, Italian), 2009/10/17
- The Debian Security Team (Italian), 2005/12/16
Free Software
Working on free software is one of the geeky things I do for fun.
I am one of the many official developers of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, maintaining a bunch of packages. Occasionally I do some work on Ubuntu as well.
See the projects on my GitHub page; I believe that my Bachelor's degree final project is worth a particular mention. It is a simple anomaly based Intrusion Detection System written using the SystemTap instrumentation framework for the Linux kernel and the Python programming language.
I had the luck to work with Marco De Benedetto. Among the countless pieces of software we wrote together, I think the most important one is a server to retrieve DICOM objects via web. DICOM is a standard for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine.
Years ago I wrote a plugin for Xfce which was (is?) reasonably popular.
Final note
Reading is one of my passions. If you feel like, please buy me a book.
No table has been harmed writing this web page.
Please, think of the tables.