Blind detection of image manipulation slides

As part of the Image Processing course, I have given a presentation on Blind detection of image manipulation. Which means: how to crunch an image with an algorithm and tell is it has been photoshopped or not.
Here are the slides.

Blind detection of image manipulation @ PoliMi

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Slides from CouchDB university presentation

As part of the Advanced Database course at Politecnico di Milano, I have done a short presentation on CouchDB, a NoSQL database. Here are the slides, in case they are of interest to you.

CouchDB @ PoliMi

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Weekly roundup: returned from PBC 2010

I've just come back (in yesterday's evening) from Barcelona and the wonderful PHP Barcelona 2010 conference.
I was the only guy talking about testing and design for testability there - as Enrico noted during the return trip, the Spanish community is different from the Italian one in interests and offerings. At phpDay 2010 in Italy, half of the schedule was centered on Agile practices, while technical topics were the real heart of this conference.
Thus, many thanks to the organizers, which worked really hard to provide a smooth experience to us, and to the 400 attendees that followed as many talks as possible. It has been nice having a so passionated audience, with people even sitting on the floor when all the seats were already filled.
My slides for the talk Architecture and testability are available for downloading or online consultation.

PHP Barcelona 2010 - Architecture and testability

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Anyway, just because I travelled this week it does not mean I stopped writing. Here are my articles published from the last roundup.
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Scripted Test
INVEST in user stories
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Data-Driven Test
Primitive Obsession

I am Bachelor of Science and here's my thesis

Some updates on what's been going on here.
July 22th was the graduation day for the Bachelor's programs of Politecnico di Milano. I gave my presentation on my thesis project -  a multimedia search engine for musical videos which annotates songs with parameters like language, artist, lyrics and predominant emotion.

Chansonnier: web application for multimedia search on song videos

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Video walkthrough (1:43)

My thesis is now also available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. It is in Italian, because the policy of Politecnico di Milano is to keep discussions in Italian for the Bachelor's programs (while many Master's programs are entirely taught and managed in English). The thesis contains many examples on Test-Driven Development and build automation, describing my experience with tools like JUnit, HttpUnit, Selenium, Ant, Equinox & OSGi.

phpDay wrapping up

Some last considerations on phpDay 2010 and then I'll stop annoying you with these informations.

First, if you were at phpDay and attended my talk, feel free to leave feedback on the specific joind.in page. Feedback is important for the organization, to know which events raised the interest of the crowd, and for speakers to improve and fine tune their talks.

Second, my slides for the Architettura e testabilità talk are online:

Php day2010

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Finally, there are a few interviews to some of the speakers (a group that also comprehends me) on html.it (in Italian).

I would like to thank you all the attendees. Given the reception, I'll propose my talk (and maybe new ideas) to other conferences... Trying cannot hurt.