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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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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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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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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public static final String convertToString(HttpServletRequest request) {
        StringBuffer msg = new StringBuffer();
        try {

            msg.append("*RequestURI:" + request.getRequestURI() + "\n");
            msg.append("*ContentType:" + request.getContentType() + …
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My first webcam video....
See and have fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53CIgqpD0S8

The Story
I have just bought a new fantastic Mac computer. So I tried my webcam, and in the same evening a friend of mine give me a cigarette (I  don't smoke so I tried it in front of my webcam).

Next I heared my bad cusin …

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Ma come fare a gestire la biancheria in questi casi? Ebbene il vostro mentore (cioè io...) ha la soluzione. Grazie a Radio Deejay, ho scoperto il seguente fantastico servizio:  http://www.stendibiancheria.net/
che vi dice quando vi conviene stendere la biancheria.  Questo modesto servizio, migliora le …
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Celeste

Celeste is a mail reading and organizing program. The name "Celeste" is a reference to an earlier mail reader named Baba, which was written at Xerox PARC by Steve Putz and John Maloney.

Nowadays, Celeste is maintained by Giovanni Giorgi (me).

Latest Feature

A new revision is planned for the end of September …

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http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ See also http://andreasviklund.com/templates/themes/

https://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi/wiki/AbstractSearching http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/ http://www.istock.com/

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