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At Gioorgi.com we have no time. So we was very happy to find out a blogging platform which can be
configured, tuned and rolled out in short time. If you are watching for such thing, you are welcome.
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Google Chrome (BETA)
12/11/2008 10:00:00 AM
Since we first released Google Chrome, the development team has been hard at work improving the stability and overall performance of the browser. In just 100 days, we have reached more than 10 million active users around the world (on all seven continents, no less) and released 14 updates to the product. We’re excited to announce that with today’s fifteenth release we are taking off the “beta” label!
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Is it possible to use Python to write small ASP-like scripts. In this post we will see how to use it, and the common mistakes you can enconter in your road to the snake…
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On Stack Overflow web site we read (bold by us):
The funniest server name story I have is from when I worked at the Kennedy Space Center. On our particular project, our main server was named snowwhite, and the 7 client workstations were named after the Seven Dwarves. The kicker is, one day one of our engineers ran into a Disney Imagineer who worked at Walt Disney World, and they started talking about server names. The Disney Imagineer said "that's funny, we have a group of servers named columbia, challenger, atlantis, and discovery."
This is our Friday relaxing news! Short stories for the weekend! To get the complete list, please look at the relax tag.
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Python 3.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Python 3.0 (final), a new production-ready release, on December 3rd, 2008.
Python 3.0 (a.k.a. “Python 3000” or “Py3k”) is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places.
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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.
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On Friday, at Gioorgi.com we look for interesting sites to give you a shot.
Whe have found this site, “managed by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world”.
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Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows - now Open Source:
Here is a little background:
This application is a recompiled version of the original Commodore 64 binary - it is not a reimplementation, so while it runs at pretty much the maximum possible speed, it is still 100% compatible. The huge C file in the archive has been produced by feeding the original 6502 code into my static recompiler and optimizing it with LLVM. The original operating system interface (character I/O, LOAD, SAVE etc.) has been reimplemented in native C, so Commodore BASIC interfaces nicely with OS X/Windows/Unix - you can use pipe I/O, and you can pass the filename of a BASIC program on the command line.
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As we have seen, bug tracking tools are a very important piece of your It infrastructure. Some tools aims to be a storing ticketing system (like Remedy), others a simple bug tracking tool. In this second post we are going to analyze one of them, called FogBugz
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We read and report:
Tonight, to clear up some problems with the packaging of the Django 1.0.1 release from Friday, we've released Django 1.0.2; once again, this is a bugfix-only release, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone targeting or using Django 1.0 or Django 1.0.1.
Weblog entry announcing the release is here: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/nov/18/102/ Release notes are here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.0.2/
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At Gioorgi.com, after working with a lot with software for over twenty years, we have envisioned a clear idea about open source. This is the second article of a series tagged “opensource”: the previous one is Open Source for the infrastructure; in such article we started to do some tiny consideration of the destiny of big closed huge framework. Things are getting bigger and bigger, and maintaining big code library is a high cost for software house
In the 2008, when I look at software I ask only a thing: to be simple. Embarrassingly simple. The success of Mac stuff (like ipods, macosx and so on) is based vastly on simple design of ready to use, not annoying stuff.
For this reason, the software is not anymore the focus. Core software should be open source: things like word process are not the future of the business. Things like FaceBook are the future of business.
What you try to sell is your GUI design experience (see things like FogBugz or Wordpress), your networking idea (like Facebook), your focus on search agents (like Google, because too much information is useless by definition).
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We are happy to publish a Chief Editor Direct Note (CEDìN):
Dear readers, our spirit is strong, as our commitment, to deliver to you the better and best article out of there. For this reason, we had worked hard to do the first major revision of the Site. Here the major changes:
Giovanni Giorgi, Chief Editor of Gioorgi.com- New look, featuring context-pages. Pages are different based on sections. The complete look will rollout in the next month. So keep in touch.
- Ajax power: article are loaded via a tiny ajax magic, to reduce site load
- The new "Friday relaxing news", for giving you something to read about.
- A new set of article about software business, the first of them is already out.
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Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops
SoundSnap is a very nice site, you can use to download free sounds to build podcasts and so on. Quality is good, and the interface is fast.
This is our Friday relaxing news! Short stories for the weekend! To get the complete list, please look at the relax tag.
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Mantis bug tracking tool 1
Nov 12, 2008 · 2 min read ·
In the previous article we introduced the reader to the bug tracking tools.
In this article we will analyze Mantis, an open source bug tracking tool It is very important to stress you are going to use much more time to set up an open source bug tracking tool. A fraction of this time is for setting it up, but the vast majority of your time will be spent setting it up, customizing it and recovering information on it.
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