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In Italy, the Republican-like coalition, guided by Silvio Berlusconi, has won the Election.
Small italian parties has disappeared, and now in the political arena there are only two very big players:
"Pdl" (Partito delle Libertà) Republicans and Democratics leaded by "Pd" (Partito …
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After a bit of work, I have managed to optimize the performance of my Postgresql Server.
I have spent a saturday morning digging around postgresql, using the fantastic komodo editor, and I am happy with the final solution.
I followed some suggestion on power PostgreSQL site, and now my postgres is blazing fast. For …
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Updated on April 15th: Berlusconi wins
[First Published on 23th of March]
If you like to have a view of Italy, I am writing a set of article on the Italy's 2008 Election.I have written it in italian, but the final thoughts will be in English.
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In the last year, "Apple Computer" has changed a bit its focus.
First of all, Apple has erased the word "computer" in the company name.
Then, has shifted its focus on new products like the iPhone.
iPhone is a GSM telephone, and so it is quite different product for a computer company.
I …
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Javascript and Smalltalk
There is a future for SmallTalk? I was a very strong fan of the SmallTalk language, but in the last five years I have seen more and more contraction of its usage in the IT field.
The OLPC project, which uses also Squeak Smalltalk and its done by the core team fo Squeak, is not going very well.
Anyway, Dan Ingalls, one of …
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We read in wikipedia:
"Mac OS X is the successor to the original Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system since 1984 [...] The first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, and a desktop-oriented version, Mac OS X v10.0 followed in March 2001"
The funny thing about MacOSX launch …
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Dynamic languages troubles
Jan 30, 2008 · 3 min read · again ant api arc build business c-language car code complex database design drupal easy eclipse example fix hard hosting http ibm import java lion microsoft perl php plugin plugins project projects python ruby san-francisco simple small smalltalk software sql stop system tools trouble ui unix vm war web world ·I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.
In the article pointed out, the quite dead Chandler project is compared to the multi-billion Eclipse project. And then a too easy analysis is done against dynamic languages, where Java is the …
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Oracle buys BEA and Sun buys MySql.
In reply,Migrosoft is hungry and is watching Yahoo :-)
<joking>
Any bets on the next money-based-news?
I'm going for
- Oracle buys Sun: "We need more hardware to run Oracle and WebLogic together! "
- Google buys Oracle: "We have *even* more hardware...come …
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This is the sad true: parsing is boring. And writing parser is even worst.
If you can choose a scripting language for parsing you can think to do it in perl.
For this way, take a big breath and go in the black sea of perl's funny regexp. They are funny only if you have that special love for the regular …
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