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Archive for June, 2009
Web2Py: a python web framework we like
Jun 29th
At Gioorgi.com we have used plenty of web frameworks.
Giovanni Giorgi used Seaside, a lot of PHP frameworks, Java Struts, RubyOnRails, and Python Django.
We have started to look for Web2Py, a compact, easy to learn python web framework.
From the most notable feature, it runs also on Google App Engine. Written by an Italian University professor for teaching web development, spots a very clean design, and a robust security infrastructure. We suggest it because installation (and upgrading) is a snap.
Let’s take a look to it…
Jython 2.5rc4 has been released
Jun 25th
Released on June 8, 2009 Jython 2.5RC4 is out!
We have followed Jython in the past months, and it seems promising looking at the jython newsletter.
Phing
Jun 23rd
PHing Is Not GNU make; it’s a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP “task” classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. Features include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template transformations), file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, CVS operations, tools for creating PEAR packages, and much more.
via Phing.
Le Squillo, mister B e l’ombra della defenestrazione
Jun 19th
Non siamo mai stati dei simpatizzanti di Mr Berlusconi Silvio, sulle pagine di Gioorgi. Non ci è mai piaciuta la sua politica, nessuna sua proposta o tentazione anti-legale, anche se ogni tanto il suo humor da barzellettiere ci ha fatto ridere.
La vita personale del signor B. non è per noi significativa: sono i fatti politici che ci interessano.
In Italia (contrariamente all’America e ad una certa Europa), la vita privata di un premier non è mai stata motivo di dimissioni. E tra un incolore Andreotti e un frizzante Berlusca, sarei tentato di preferire il secondo, se non ci fossero risvolti penali.
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About Gioorgi.com: vote by your own!
Jun 18th
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Loading ...iOpus | Web Browser Scripting, Web Testing, Web Scraping and Website Monitoring
Jun 16th
iMacros – Web Automation, Web Testing and Web Scraping
Record & replay all web surfing activities
Automatically fill out web forms from a database
Automate uploads, downloads, and data extraction
iMacros is the only solution that works with websites that use Flash, Flex, Java and Silverlight
via iOpus | Web Browser Scripting, Web Testing, Web Scraping and Website Monitoring.
Suggested by a friend, it seems very complete, and the personal edition is only 50$. Try it out!
C– for cross compiler
Jun 15th
In late 1994, when I need to write a programming language it was a pain. You must start with flex, lex and so on, and the way will be very long.
Then I found GCC was able to compile in a pseudo-machine language, already optimized. Then a set of backend was able to emit mc68000, 80×86, power pc code…
I am glad to see now there is a “stripped down” version of the C language to simplify this hard work…. By the way, Fortran has been the first compiled language, appeared near 1957.
“A new perspective on programming-language infrastructure”
Welcome to C–
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Geocities will die
Jun 13th
Bupmed from ArchiveTeam, we have a shocked news:
Geocities was a once very popular web hosting service founded in 1994 and purchased by Yahoo in 1999. On April 2009, Yahoo announced they would be closing Geocities “later this year”. Apparently, Yahoo will offer a means to export user data sometime this summer.
The news is also reported by TechCrunch:
Not with a bang, but with a whimper. Yahoo! is unceremoniously closing GeoCities, one of the original web-hosting services acquired by Yahoo! in 1999 for $2.87 billion.[...]
GeoCities’ traffic has been falling over the past year. According to ComScore, GeoCities unique visitors in the U.S. fell 24 percent in More >
The best netbook-friendly Linux distros
Jun 12th
Hands-on We loved the Xandros based OS the Asus put on the original Eee PC for its simplicity and direct access to applications. Likewise Acer’s version of Linpus, installed on the Linux versions of its Aspire One netbook. For 90 per cent of the tasks anyone’s likely to perform on a netbook, they’re spot on and allow the machines to boot up in under 20 seconds.
via The best netbook-friendly Linux distros • Register Hardware.
Slashdot | Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution
Jun 11th
Yahoo has been a vociferous Apache Hadoop user and supporter for several years now, and uses it extensively within its Search technologies. Hadoop has been gaining popularity in the Cloud Computing space, with companies like the NYTimes converting 4TB and 11 million articles to PDFs in under 24 hours using Hadoop and EC2 in late 2007. Hadoop has been made available in Amazon’s cloud and Yahoo has now released its own Hadoop version.
from Slashdot | Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution.
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