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Tratto da una storia vera.

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Giorgi:-Pronto?
Voce Sconosciuta Femminile:-Buon giorno signor Giorgi, la chiamavo perché ho bisogno di aiuto per scrivere del codice sulla piattaforma MP di trading on line….
-Mi scusi?
-Sì, lei è un esperto di trading on line vero?
-Sì… (non mi lascia aggiungere altro)
-Perché mi hanno detto che il linguaggio che devo usare è simile al C++, ed ho visto su Internet che lei è un esperto di C++.
-Mi scusi ha visto dove?
-(spazientita) Ho digitato “esperto programmatore c++ trading” e ho trovato il suo nome…

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September 9, 2009   2 Comments

Web2Py: a python web framework we like

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…

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June 29, 2009   Comments Off

Slashdot | Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution

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.

June 11, 2009   Comments Off