Category: geolocation
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Hey, where is my country?
What looks like a simple choice in a drop-down list, can turn into a PR nightmare. Integrating an external mapping service can unintentionally make many of your users unhappy. How can software developers and startups manage location-based services in disputed territories or partially recognized state?
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Dev Around the Sun
Looking forward to be a speaker next week at Dev Around the Sun, a 24-hour international fundraiser organised by the .NET Foundation for the Direct Relief’s Coronavirus Fund. It all starts on May 12 at 2PM CEST, I will be live on May 13 at 7AM CEST. Title of my talk and abstract below. Schedule,…
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TestCon Europe 2020
For the very first time next October I will attend and speak at a testing conference and it will be the biggest software testing conference in Europe, TestCon Europe 2020. I will cover one of my favorite topics, geolocation and geopolitical challenges in the software world: “Hey, Where is My Country? How to Test Your…
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Apple’s Crimea map, two months later
At the end of November Apple was in the news because of the choice to change Crimea map to meet Russian demands. Handling disputed territories in online services is a wide and challenging topic without a simple solution. Combining a critical area like Crimea with the largest tech company in the world, makes news. Let’s…
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Hey, where is my country?
The slides of my talk today at Codemotion Milan 2019. Great sunny day in Milan talking about how software developers and testers should manage location-based services when dealing with disputed territories or partially recognized states.
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Codemotion Milan 2019
As an Italian Java developer, Codemotion has always been one of the main tech conferences. And Milan is still the city that I occasionally call home, even after many years away. So I am very very excited to be back in October and be a speaker at Codemotion Milan 2019. I am looking forward to…
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Talk at Make Random Great Again
“Alexa, what is the capital of Israel?” is the title of my talk at the Make Random Great Again meetup at Betahaus. Looking forward to March 29th and a interesting event in Berlin!