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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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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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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Is it amazing things you can do with a simple Bourne Again Shell  (bash).

I have just discovered you can open socket using a small redirection syntax, and emulate small checks you normally do with curl or wget.

The bash shell manual is always poor about examples, and this is very very sad.

In my own opinion, a good …

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(First published on 2007-01-20)

Hi all, ObjectsRoot now has correct story ordering ontags view!

I am happy to announce I have just installed tinymce on my site.

TinyMCE is a very nice javascript editor, also used in Drupal. What makes tinymce very nice in my humble own opinion, is its easy installation. You do not …

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Hi blog readers! Your trip master has just come back from a win trip done in the swap of the year. We have been in Modena in December and in Padova, this month. We have done one-day-trips, fast and furious as usual. I have done about 6 photos to Modena. I liked a bit more Padova, which needs at least two days to be …
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I think ajax is a very new technology, but with too much hype on it. I think we'd try to do simple things with it, avoiding too much bloated interfaces.

I have found a good ibm article with shows "In-place editing" avery easy way to get a more responsible site. Finally the same article points to Prototype …

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