Archive for January, 2008

Dynamic languages troubles

Jan 31st

Posted by Giovanni Giorgi in English Content

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 absolute winner.

I will try to fix some of the things said there, and to add also my two cents here :)

 

First of all, I use Java a lot, but I am also a fan of dynamic languages. Every tool has its place in the world, and I will avoid some holy war here. 

Anyway, it More >

La caduata del governo per interessi personali

Jan 25th

Posted by Giovanni Giorgi in [...]

1 comment

Lo scandalo della caduta del governo Prodi sta in questo piccolo fatto: il governo cade perche’ un ministro (Clemente Mastella) ha deciso di fare una stupida ripicca.

Clemente Mastella negli ultimi sei mesi si e’ distinto per essere il piu’ fulgido rappresentante della peggiore casta politica italiana.

E questa affermazione, si badi bene, è solo una constatazione.

Prima si è reso partecipe dello scandalo dell’aereo usato per scopi personali.

Poi ha dimostrato una totale intolleranza verso la satira, adirandosi contro Grillo e Crozza.

Infine, si è lamentato del fatto che la giustizia stia facendo il suo corso, interessandosi a vicende poco chiare

che coinvolgono lui e More >

Shopping in the IT

Jan 22nd

Posted by Giovanni Giorgi in English Content

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 on!"
  • Apple buys Google: "So nice LOGO", retrodating a bunch of stock options, I suppose.
  • Microsoft buys Apple ("So annoied their are more cool then us!") and shut down all them all so you will end up using their search engine, I hope.

</joking> 

Surely Oracle needed a good application server to push its db.Sun move seems  a bit strange in More >

pyparsing review

Jan 17th

Posted by Giovanni Giorgi in English Content

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 expressions.

But if you are more confortable with python, pyparser is a better solution.

Pyparser is a library written in Python, for building parser described with a BNF (Backus-Naur Form).

O'Reilly has just published a "Short Cuts" e-book written by Paul McGuire; in less then 70 More >

Why Open Source is important?

Jan 1st

Posted by Giovanni Giorgi in Legacy ObjectsRoot.com

Hi readers, with the beginning of 2008, ObjectsRoot.com will change a bit its face.

First of all, all Italian article will be moved to the new “vamp” site, thinked as a news site.

Objectsroot will focus on IT Business and it will host only english content: IT article will remain here, at least for a while.

ObjectsRoot.com will focus on publishing and advanced web services for our customers.

I  have done some deep  consideration on Open Source Software  and I will summarize them here.

From the beginning of my Univesity studies, GNU software helped me  to grow in my competence. Linux was far more advanced More >

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