Archive for October, 2006

City angels di periferia

Ogni mattina passo dietro un parco trotter di una grande citta', Milano. Li' davanti ad un muretto trovo sempre un City Angels e un tipo che sicuramente ha problemi di droga. Stanno li' nel freddo della mattina, mentre i dipendenti del comune puliscono l parco dietro di loro. Un'altro giorno sono li', mentre i residenti portano i cani sul marciapiede (il parco e' a due metri ma si sa' il tempo e' prezioso…). Il bello e' che ieri quello con la voce impastata non era il tossico ma il City Angels. Erano vicini e l'angelo sembrava veramente il tossico…per fortuna More >

Software Trends1

The trends of this october are about some upcoming products. A clear analisys of 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 before only starting to see its market reduced. This lead me to the (hoped?) big fear of M$ for open source. It is a dream, baby.

Open Source in Italy has success because of high costs of developement library. When I tried to look for a commercial application to delivery some web graphic stuff, the prices was crazy. The Open More >

Exupery: byte compiler for Squeak

I have tried Exupery, the Squeak byte compiler written by Bryce Kampjes. Exupery is still in beta but is usable for experimenting. SqueakWeekly is happy to publish a prime-time FAQ!

 

I have published the FAQ in the SqueakWeekly. You can read it following this link