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Horizontal grit chamber checking software

Horizontal grit chamber checking software

Simple programm written in a QuickBasic language and compiled in FreeBASIC, which allows you to verify an horizontal grit chamber. Once you have put the geometric… more

Using Inkscape to convert cartographic TIFF to DXF

Using Inkscape to convert TIFF to DXF

In this short tutorial I will explain how you can convert cartographic maps available in TIFF format to DXF, a vectorial standard available in most CAD software. The… more

MathJax and MathML, two methods to integrating mathematical formulae on the WEB pages

MathJax and MathML in my Drupal site

When I was planning my site, one of many problems I had, was insertion of mathematical equations in my articles, but I found very soon in MathJax a useful solution. Some time after I discovered… more

A little theory about the horizontal grit chamber

Horizontal grit chamber: theory

How to verify the selected horizontal grit chambers with the storm sewer previously designed? To do this I have used my old notes of Hydraulic Constructions, topic of… more

How to convert PDF to CBZ for a better legibility on eReader

PDF2CBZ for a better legibility on eReader

I admit it: my ebook reader has many problem in loading some type of PDFs, though I had made various tricks to fix this problem, like my site can testify! In last days… more

How to configure notifications for comments in Drupal 7 using actions and triggers

Notify in Drupal using actions and triggers

Setting up actions and triggers and using tokens, it is possible to create an efficient method that inform by email the admin, after anonymous user inserts a new… more

FreeBASIC software to compute a sheet pile wall in layered soil

Sheet pile wall in layered soil

Some time ago I had to verify in a short time, different hypothesis for a sheet pile wall installation in a layered soil: fixing length and distance of the anchor from… more

How to upgrade Drupal 7.x

How to upgrade Drupal 7.x

Here it is a simple list with the operations that I use to upgrade new release of installed modules and Drupal itself, at the moment only 7 major release, i.e. from 7.… more

A spreadsheet to set detention basin volume

A spreadsheet to set detention basin volume

I post a simple spreadsheet to determine the volume of a detention basin, following the guidelines for the evaluation of hydraulic compatibility pubblished afterwards the OPCM 3261/2007 (… more

How to reduce heavy PDFs using ImageMagick

How to reduce heavy PDFs

Sometime people shares PDF documents too big in size, so they are hard to keep and to display, specially in old PCs and eBook readers. Generally these PDFs are formed… more

Nicola Rainiero

A civil geotechnical engineer with the ambition to facilitate own work with free software for a knowledge and collective sharing. Also, I deal with green energy and in particular shallow geothermal energy. I have always been involved in web design and 3D modelling.