Let the Zend Framework introduce itself as a Borg would do: 

"Hi dear RubyOnRails. Hi all. I am the Zend Framework, a small work (about  5 tons of code) done by IBM and Zend to destroy you. You think php is not able to build big project?... do you?
So you have dared to develop RubyOnRails or Perl or …

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Hi all, dear readers (and spammers too... you delight me with your poor tatics)!
Because my job is getting very very boring, and my private life is full of fantastic nights, I have decided to write a bunch of new articles, and stack them on objectsroot.com.

But Because too much to read is bad, the article will be …

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In Slashdot today I have seen a Microsoft advertise.

It said: "Windows is more reliable then Linux". Clicking on it a very huge set of pages show you how to "Compare Windows to Red Hat". And this is the start of the end of the Empire.

If Linux is considered a competitor,  Microsoft will bring itself …

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iPhone is a very nice project, well designed and manufactered, but the market addressed is
an hard bet for Apple.
Big players are already on the ground: Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony for instance.

So it is difficult to play in such market, and some analysts said  "the touch screen was not successful …

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If you need to work on cluster, is nice to have syncronized terminals to send the same commands in parallel.

Is it also doungerous, so do some test before sending a bunch of vi commands!

On Unix, a cheap and fast solution is Kde "konsole" which has such option.

Look under "View/Send input to all …

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In onore della laurea di una mia cara amica, ripubblico e segnalo una serie di "storie universitarie", che sono sicuro strapperanno più di un sorriso. Buona lettura!
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Sometimes I need to build a small script to delete a huge set of tables of a schema.

In Oracle is easy to do it, using the meta tables "all_tables", "all_views", and "all_sequences":

select  'drop table ' || table_name || ' cascade constraints;' 
   from …

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Use the sed -i command

sed -i.BAK 's|foo|bar|g' files # -i does in-place replacement
perl -pi.bak -e 's|foo|bar|g' files                # or
perl -pi.bak -e 's|foo|bar|g' `find /pathname -name "filespec"`

Perl is the preferred way, but on some production system you must use the old good sed. For some tips on sed take a …

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Hi dear spammers, I am an announce.

I love you so much I have decided to auto delete spam comments not already published.

As you know, dear spammers, the anti spam on this site (called Blue Dragon) is able to shutup your nasty posts.

Now blue dragon can also delete them from our big database, because it is so easy to …

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I am very happy to publish a first look of my trip to Ravenna and Ferrara.

I went there with two friends (Andrea and Paola)  in April.

We enjoy a lot the trip (we also took a bike at Ferrara).
Ferrara is bigger then  Ravenna and need about two days to see all the things.

We have done a two days trip at the end …

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