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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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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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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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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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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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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