About the posts and the author
Hilde's photo of myself from a bus in Florence
This is Pietro Polsinelli’s software blog, where I randomly and incoherently post about several topics.
The main categories of posts are:
- developing and marketing new online services.
- concerning IT and my work as developer and marketer
The most general part of this blog has been transformed in the Developers in Europe project.
The part concerning litterature is discontinued since I started Ben Cotti.
Short facts about me
I was born in Pavia in an Anglo-Italian family. I was interested in programming languages since I was 14 (it was 1981), at the time I was in London and I discovered the existence of accessible computers, the Sinclair ZX 80-81. Since then I have been interested in programming languages, recursion theory, mathematical logic, models of natural language, axiomatizations of mathematics, and studied mathematical and philosophical logic at various universities. I also tried to work at theorem proving in set theory as a pure mathematician, but I had no real talent for that.
I currently live in Florence with my partner Laura, a graphic designer, and our two children, Maia and Enea.
Professional
Currently I am a Java developer and software marketer at the IT company I founded in Florence with three friends in 2001, Open Lab, of which I am quite proud, as about 15 people work there, producing many wonderful things. I am working full-time on four products: Teamwork project management software, which is by now a quite successful project, adopted all over the world, and used daily by more than 5000 people to manage their work, Patapage, BugsVoice, and a new personal and team productivity tool, Licorize.
I have a twitter stream mainly of my working activity: http://twitter.com/ppolsinelli .
Personal
I have practiced Shintaido, a body movement art, since about 1998.
I have for many years and still am quite interested in the phenomenological branch of philosophy, and also in contemporary philosophy in general. Recently I became interested in literary criticism, and started writing novels and short stories.
In 2010 Massimo Capitani and I launched Ben Cotti, a site dedicated to somwhow hard boiled short stories (and more), mostly in Italian (there is an English section). Twitter stream is here.
My older blog: http://ppolsinelli.blogspot.com .
You can write me at ppolsinelli@gmail.com.
