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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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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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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The trends of this october are about some upcoming products. A clear analisys of <a href="http://www.roughlydrafted.com/Sept05.Quark.html"

QuarkXPress failure si sketched in roughlydrafted site. I do not think the same consideration can be applied to Vista.
As Joel said, M$ can throw away much money …
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Steve is not a normal solution provider.
Steve is the final destination for Project Management troubles.

Let's see how Steve can solve problems

The Ten Steve Rules

1. If you have a customer you can get my attention
2. If your project is run out of time and you need to finish the product yesterday, you will face a …

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