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<span class="dropcap">Y</span>ou have reached Fabio Cevasco's web site. I am a full-time technical writer living and working in Genoa, Italy. In my free time, I enjoy reading and writing about IT-related topics and programming in different programming language, especially "Ruby":http://www.ruby-lang.org. This web site is a collection of my works, both in writing and coding, and it currently features *<%= all_articles %>* "articles":/archives/ and *<%= all_projects %>*  "projects":/projects/. 

My articles cover a wide range of topics, ranging from "Ruby programming":/tags/ruby/ to "software and book reviews":/tags/reviews/, "web development":/tags/webdevelopment/ and even "travelling":/tags/travelling. This web site does not have a main theme, therefore if you want to keep up-to-date about a particular topic, simply subscribe to a specific tag feed. 

I update this site regularly, but not every day (and maybe not every week): I only write a new article when I have something important to write about. For more frivolous, extemporaneous stuff feel free to have a look at my "blog":http://blog.h3rald.com, which is updated more frequently.

You can contact me by writing an email to _h3rald [at] h3rald [dot] com_, or through "Twitter":http://www.twitter.com/h3rald, "LinkedIn":http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Fabio/Cevasco, "Delicious":http://www.delicious.com/h3rald, "Facebook":http://www.facebook.com/h3rald, "Shelfari":http://www.shelfari.com/h3rald, "FriendFeed":http://friendfeed.com/h3rald or "Posterous":http://posterous.com/people/4aAQcmIVQl7H.

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h3. Latest Articles

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latest.each do |a|
%>
<%= render 'article_item', :article => a %>
<% end %>
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<div class="article-list right-column" id="popular-articles">
h3. Popular Articles

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popular.each do |a|
%>
<%= render 'article_item', :article => a %>
<% end %> 
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