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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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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Si fa un gran parlare di Extreme Programming? Ma se non volete fallire, su quali basi la vostra azienda deve veramente reggersi? In questo articolo vediamo un excursus sul Pezzent Programming, usato nella produzione industriale di Dolci

Estratti dal manuale del Pezzent Cooking Management:

1. Formazione. La formazione …

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La realtà è quella cosa che, quando smetti di crederci, non va più avanti.

Mi accade spesso di svegliarmi di notte e cominciare a pensare a una serie di gravi problemi e decidere di parlarne col Papa. Poi mi sveglio completamente e mi ricordo che io sono il Papa!

 

Ricordate, c'è …

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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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Prima la buona notizia:Extreme Programming (XP) funziona!

Attenzione: articolo rivolto a persone con il senso dello humor!!

Esistono solo alcune banali dettagli e qualche nefasto fattore da tenere sotto controllo, ma per il resto funziona.

Io, che ormai sono acclamato come esperto di crepes e consulente da quasi dieci …

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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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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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