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 way of programming but also to learn some particulars aspect of Java. To consider a complete but not easy reading. However a book to have!

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Testing is important.

Testing web interfaces is difficult, and often your consultant company prefer to suggest you a manual-based testing. But is it so difficult to do automatic web testing using open source software?

Let’s give a look to two nice web testing software

Warning: this article is still in progress: it has been published for getting comments all around.

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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!).

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We have just enabled the Twitter -Gioorgi integration, so you can keep following us also via twitter!

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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 facing PHP simplicity versus huge software house products.

Druapl & Wordpress are good. Drupal is an ace if you are very dynamic needs. For instance, multi-language sites, forums, polls and so on are a snap to install. But if usability is a concern, choose wordpress. joomla/Mambo are not so good in my own opinion, but I’d like to her a comment from you.

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After working with unix for years, we noticed it is difficult to get a very uniform approach to unix management.

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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 using open source software. We also want tools easy to understand. We do not want super-optimized stuff, we have the “just it works well” approach.

We thinked about these types of virtual machine: super light LAMP servers, medim sized java tomcat servers (or udson servers), big database machines and super big development machines.

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A nice wordpress plugin

Author: Skullbit

Enhance your Registration Page.

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Welcome to Apache Rampart

Rampart is the security module of Axis2. It secures SOAP messages according to specifications in the WS-Security stack.

via Apache Rampart .

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We are happy to announce Gioorgi.com offers a better experience for Mobile Phones browser:

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News Corporation's James Murdoch says that a 'dominant' BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK and that free news on the web provided by the BBC made it 'incredibly difficult' for private news organizations to ask people to pay for their news.

via Slashdot | James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News".

It is not the first time Murdoch is trying to fool us. Murdoch new war is trying to persuade people news on the web must be paid. It is difficult to fight this war, nowedays: it is like to try to get paid for email delivery, or for accessing to things like twitter or facebook.

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At Gioorgi.com we evaluted a internet file system common gateway for connecting network resources. We compared two solutions: a webdav file system and an ssh-fs file system. The solution should be viable via MacOSX and Linux, but also Windows support will be a plus.

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