In the last year, "Apple Computer" has changed a bit its focus.

First of all, Apple has erased the  word "computer" in the company name.

Then,  has shifted its focus on new products like the iPhone.

iPhone is a GSM telephone, and so it is quite different product for a computer company.

I …

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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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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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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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