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JavaScript War: Prologue

Sep 15, 2011 · 3 min read

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Be strong young Jedi. This war will begin shortly. You can try to keep you jdk under your pillow, but the html5 will hit you in the middle of the night. And a knife in the dark will rise from shadow: JavaScript

Why WISP is better then Virtualized.

Sep 4, 2011 · 2 min read

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I am happy when I am not the only one with bad experience with virtual machines.

Functional Programming In Depth, part II:Python and Scala retrospection

Aug 29, 2011 · 3 min read

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This is the second article on functional programming. In the first one we talked about scala and the type inference system it brings in the Java Way of Life.

I played a bit with python functional howto, building a small game. Before starting I surfing for a bit of libraries and documentation.

WISP Manifesto

Aug 14, 2011 · 2 min read

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We talked about ”Web applIcation Service Provider” (WISP) in the past days. So what are the specification for a Service Provder wanting to be a WISP?

The ARC for Memory Management

Jul 27, 2011 · 3 min read

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Archimedes (287 BC) said “give me a place to stand and I will move the earth”.

Apple, after decades of lack of decent garbage collection to Objective-C, seems to say “I will give an ARC to exit to the dark hand-made memory allocation”.

Let’see how.