In my code ramblings during the developement of Code Zauker, I ended up studing a bit NoSql  database.

Code zauker started using Redis, because Redis is a very bold memory-based no-sql db. Redis also support complex data type like sorted set, lists and so on, which was very userful. Anyway I needed a very fast way of doing statistics on data collected by code zauker, for inspecting data and finding out new feature I’d like to add to it. Worst, my current pocket pose a hard limit on a redis instance in terms of available RAM. So I started thinking a lot about a redis drop-in replacement for Code Zauker.

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And so you was waiting for news?

Nice to impress you: I was able to shot two code zauker versions in less than a month!

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I hear your heart beat to the beat of the drums Oh what a shame that you came here with someone So while you're here in my arms Let's make the most of the night like we're gonna Code young

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If you have an application with thousand of beans, you must do unit testing but…Spring testing is boring, belive me. A very complex Spring application usually have a lot of dependency: I had to manage over 3000 beans definitions in a production project right now. Sometimes you want only to test a bit of it, and setting up a complete Spring Context will drive you crazy. To avoid losing mind, my suggestion is to …cheat. Let’see how.

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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. Yale Professor Alan Perlis

In occasione dell’Elixir Conf siamo lieti di pubblicare una intervista con Francesco Cesarini.  Nel 2009 abbiamo già recensito "Erlang Programming A Concurrent Approach to Software Development" scritto a quattro mani con Simon Thompson. Ora siamo lieti di ospitare una intervista ad ampio respiro con una delle colonne portati di Erlang Solutions.

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After a bunch of time, I take back my Erlang Hammer from the sand of time.

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Working in a big company, my work laptop came with MS-Windows7 Enterprise installed. But as you imagine, Unix is my preferred desktop environment. So let’s how to configure a perfect Debian Linux for a old wolf consultant like me. You will be able to install commercial software mubmo jumbo like Oracle Express and IBM Websphere in a snap, and have a 64 rock solid system, easy to bring in a USB stick if you like.

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Arudino StereoSID emulates the SID sound chip of the famous Commodore 64. It is based on the Atmega8 MOS6581 SID Emulator from Christoph Haberer. Library conversion and memory optimization by Mario Patino. Stereo Effect by Giovanni Giorgi

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Erlang is a great language.

[2019-UPDATE] Erlang 22 is OUT, so I wanna to come to the party!

On April 2015, Erlang father’s Joe Armstrong give us a very interesting lesson I want to tell about.

There was a long thread titled “Erlang and Akka, The Sequel” on the erlang mailing list, reasoning about the need of some standard pattern on Promises and Future. A lot of JavaScript libraries deal about that (also jQuery has its implementation). I want to report the Joe Amstrong reply because it give us a very clear understanding on the reason Erlang is different and you should at least try it once.

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