http://gioorgi.com Freedom, economy and information technology. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:49:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 http://gioorgi.com/2010/pyro/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/pyro/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:01:42 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3569 One of the best thing of scripting languages like Python is the ability to fast prototype complex things. In the past ten years, if you like to build distributed application you was forced to use huge and heavily languages like Java. On Python there is a nice library called Pyro, which used with success: Pyro is short [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/pyro/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/apple-strategia-2010/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/apple-strategia-2010/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:52:12 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3603 Abbiamo fatto una rapida analisi dell’ Apple iPad in un articolo precedente: vediamo questa volta come l’iPad si inserisce in una possibile strategia globale dell’azienda di Cupertino. La maggior parte delle osservazioni che faremo sono corroborate da accadimenti storici, il resto sono previsioni di breve termine ma illuminanti. La Apple inizia ad allargare l’insieme dei dispositivi prodotti [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/apple-strategia-2010/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/ipad-strategia/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/ipad-strategia/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:19:18 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3583 C’è stata molta eccitazione intorno alla presentazione dell’iPad da parte della Apple. Il prodotto finale risulta una specie di “iPhone più grosso”, con funzionalità simili al Kindle di Amazon, che ovviamente consta circa 200 dollari di meno. E allora dove sta la novità, la geniale lungimiranza di Steve Jobs? In realtà l’iPad è un passo avanti nel tentativo [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/ipad-strategia/feed/ 1 http://gioorgi.com/2010/doctor-architect/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/doctor-architect/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:45:09 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3564 -Lei Fuma, e/o fa uso di Asserzioni? -Uso Asserzioni e Reflection -Capisco, e accusa una crescita della garbage collection?….mmmm… Allora mi prende 2 supposte di Spring mattino e sera, uno Struts prima dei pasti, e poi… … si lavi con del Soap Liquido ogni due giorni. -E guarirò? -(mentendo) Ceeerto! ]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/doctor-architect/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/the-revamp-of-gioorgi-com/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/the-revamp-of-gioorgi-com/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:10:39 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3514 The English New Year Intro: Hi all readers, the last reports show the lack of articles was a major issue for Gioorgi.com My time was heavily compressed by my forthcoming baby (I will dad in a few months guys!). Also my Job as Senior Consultant required a lot of my energy. Gioorgi is bi-lingual, so the English guys can expect [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/the-revamp-of-gioorgi-com/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2010/come-trasferire-le-email-da-outlook-express-a-apple-mail-su-snow-leopard-%c2%ab-ac2-0-blog/ http://gioorgi.com/2010/come-trasferire-le-email-da-outlook-express-a-apple-mail-su-snow-leopard-%c2%ab-ac2-0-blog/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:24:39 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3538 Da Acquadro.it, leggiamo questo suggerimento su come trasferire le email da Outlook al vostro Mac: Nel mio recente passaggio a MacOsX, uno dei problemi che ho dovuto risolvere è stato il trasferimento delle email dal vecchio PC ( Outlook Express su WinXp) a Mail di Apple. Ho installato un mail server sul PC (hMailServer),creato un [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2010/come-trasferire-le-email-da-outlook-express-a-apple-mail-su-snow-leopard-%c2%ab-ac2-0-blog/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2009/observer/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/observer/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:36:39 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=221 Every Year, Giovanni consider some “trends”  based on his consultant experience. This trends have been gathered in the last six months, and are printed  at regular basis. This thoughts  are note merely “preference”, but are strong opinions based on IT firms products, cleared by buzz-words and soap-opera-like scoop (like “Wired”  bad ideas are :). CMS Market is still [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/observer/feed/ 1 http://gioorgi.com/2009/mastering-unix-clusters1/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/mastering-unix-clusters1/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:39:21 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=2916 One day, we have the need to create a fast cluster of linux machine, specialized and easy to segragate in different networks (for better security). We need web servers, integration servers (running java hudson), huge developer machines (running for instance eclispe) and so on. It was not easy to find a good environment. This research lead [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/mastering-unix-clusters1/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2009/erlang-book/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/erlang-book/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:00:48 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3007 After reading an interesting article on Erlang  and Java interoperability, I have decided to dedicate my spare time to Erlang. O’Reilly has just published a wonderful book on Erlang, so I decided to dive into it. Erlang Programming A Concurrent Approach to Software Development By Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson ISBN 13: 9780596518189 I have already talked to a lot [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/erlang-book/feed/ 1 http://gioorgi.com/2009/unison-file-synchronizer/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/unison-file-synchronizer/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:15:13 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=3045 Several years ago I had the need of keep in sync three computers.  After some questions on a java mailing list, a very smart guy suggested me Unison. Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/unison-file-synchronizer/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2009/c-minus-minus/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/c-minus-minus/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:09:03 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=2970 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, [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/c-minus-minus/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2009/evolving-concurrency/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/evolving-concurrency/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:07:52 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=2957 As processors become faster and multiprocessor systems become cheaper, the need to take advantage of multithreading in order to achieve full hardware resource utilization only increases the importance of being able to incorporate concurrency in a wide variety of application categories. In this article we are evaluting a new approach to the concurrency. In the last five [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/evolving-concurrency/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2009/wolframalpha/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/wolframalpha/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:01:10 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=2887 Hi World. I didn’t lost a bit of  grip on edge news, altrought now I am married! In the first days of May we read about a new serach engine, called WolframAlpha. The idea behind WolframAlpha are interesting, so we will take a close look to it. Slashdot is following the engine very tightly (“Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera”, published [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/wolframalpha/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2009/application-developement/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/application-developement/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 00:32:00 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=2771 Working on WSAD (WebSphere Application Development) based on eclipse 2.x… Funny error, weird question? ]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/application-developement/feed/ 0 http://gioorgi.com/2009/the-destiny-of-mysql/ http://gioorgi.com/2009/the-destiny-of-mysql/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:13:32 +0000 Giovanni Giorgi http://gioorgi.com/?p=2667 Slashdot underlines there are too much forks of MySQL on the way. After leaving MySQL, Michael “Monty” Widenius started its own code fork, backed up with a company. The nerds think the destiny of MySQL is unclear, but it is still too early to get a clear vision. After acquisition of Sun by Oracle, it is difficult to [...]]]> http://gioorgi.com/2009/the-destiny-of-mysql/feed/ 0