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Mercurial for subversion Users
Jun 28th
Willing to switch to Subversion to Mercurial (you will, belive me!)?
http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Mercurial+for+Subversion+Users
and be happy!
Clojure Review
Feb 6th
This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Programming Languages
Book review by Stefano Fago: This book introduce one of most interesting language of new wave of functional programming. You will find a complete overview of clojure language focusing in functional paradigm that can be the real obstacle for a standard developer. The author try to follow you on learning different subject with a lot of examples but sometimes it need more reflection and time to master some arguments and a syntax that may seems obscure. The book is a good starting point to introduce you to a new More >
Mastering clusters of Unix machines part1: the right VM
Oct 5th
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 us also to consider a very huge set of different and complex management software. In this series of article, we will show what we discovered.
Or final goal is to have a way to define a set of linux virutal machines, connect them and manage all More >
Erlang Book Review
Jul 19th
This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series Programming Languages
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.
Evolving concurrency, like memory management did
Jun 11th
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 years computers are becoming even more parallel. Intel is pushing multi-core achiteture also on commodity personal computers. Neverless the computing power is ofter not well used: one again, hardware is a step head of our day-by-day software development. Remember when the 80286 came into More >
Producing Open Source Software
Apr 17th
Some times ago I have the lucky to read “Producing Open Source Software“:
[...] a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. The book is released under an open copyright: it is available in bookstores and from the publisher (O’Reilly Media), or you can browse or download it [...]
Valuable parts, which we suggest to read:
Open source is a value, especially here in Italy, where the small consulting firms have no time/ no hope of developing strong commercial reality.
Open source More >
Java Servlet & EJB
Dec 4th
La seguente documentazione traccia un percorso formativo sintetico per apprendere la specifica J2EE 5.
Si parte dalle Servlet e dalle jsp, per arrivare fino agli EJB, che si consiglia di affrontare dopo aver ben appreso i concetti alla base della programmazione web.
WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1
Dec 2nd
After some time, WordPress 2.7 is out:
WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1
By Ryan Boren. Filed under Releases.
With the release of RC1, we’re in the final leg of development before the release of 2.7. 280 commits since beta 3 have polished the new admin UI (including new menu icons created by the winners of our icon design contest) and fixed all known blocker bugs.
We think RC1 is ready for everyone to try out. Please download RC1 and help us make the final release the best it can be. As always, back up your blog before upgrading.
Bug Tracking Tools 3: Trac
Nov 27th
Trac is a quite famous bug tracking software written in python.
It is considered very strong its subversion integration
Pros: Can Also work with an embedded database (using sqlite). Easy to setup and use.
Cons: Feature are too much, and aims to be also a CMS to some extend.
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