Latest writings
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]
Hey there
Yo. My name is Emanuele Rocca and you just ended up on my homepage. Welcome! Here you can find my latest blog posts and some information about me.
Reading is one of my passions. If you feel like, please buy me a book. Also feel free to browse my bookmarks on Delicious, see my projects on GitHub or take a look at my Stack Overflow profile. I would prefer the book, but hey.
Contacts
If you want to write me an email, please go for it.
In case you value the confidentiality of communication over the Internet you can get my GPG key. If you have no idea what I am talking about please read this article.
Presentations
Here is a list of some of the presentations I have given, together with the relevant slides:
- The Debian Security Team (Italian), 2005/12/16
- SystemTap: Tracciamento dinamico dell'attività del kernel e applicazioni alla sicurezza informatica (Italian), 2009/10/17
- Notifica e consultazione del dossier clinico (Italian), 2010/01/20
- Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data, 2011/03/16
- Scalable Applications: design, refactor, host, 2011/10/14
- Cross-site request forgery, 2011/12/13
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
No table has been harmed writing this web page.
Please, think of the tables.