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In the last seven months I have the need of sketching a bunch of interfaces, but I cannot find a valid tool. I was a Software Architect of a big huge project, busy also on other smaller projects as project manager.
I need a rapid way to sketch use cases, to pass them to a very young team.
Web interfaces are not easy to design, and we was in a very weird situation: the team was forced to use DAOs, with no O/R mapping tool. So I need also to map some interfaces to a database model, to help them building the model and the view classes
After some search, I ended up with MS Visio.
MS Visio is great, but too difficult to use, doing training is hard and so I must discourage its use. Worst, Visio costs a lot, and it is not included with the standard MS-Office Tools.
Visio offers only WinXP look&Feel, which is not the best for designing agnostic web interfaces.
Thank you to a friend of mine, I have the discovered the BalsamIQ Mockup project. Let’s see why it is a so good solution.
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After a bit of working, the projects section of Gioorgi.com is coming into life. Gioorgi Team is looking forward the 2009 to finalize the research projects.
Feel free to leave your comments and ideas below, or in the Guestbook at the right.
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Finally I managed to buy a Asus EEE PC 700 this week. I would thanks a lot Next Store and its kindly clerks, which I will prefer in future to Mediaword :)
If you are at Milan and you plan to buy it, Next Store is a good choice.
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As some of you know, I was a Smalltalk fan&developer in the last twelve years. I have stopped working on smalltalk years ago… anyway, I am happy to look forward the Squeak Smalltalk Community from time to time.
I republish here an original article posted by me on SqueakPeople, over 4 years ago. The reason is simple: I am very happy to see a Squeak code fork called “Sapphire” which share most of my thoughts:
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Per un importante cliente di ValueTeam, ho sviluppato per un'applicazione chiamata PDFGenerator, che è stata pacchettizzata come un vero e proprio prodotto.
PDFGenerator nasce in una situazione caratterizzata da un alta variabilità dei requisiti utente.Le specifiche del progetto hanno subito variazioni significative nell'arco di quattro anni, ed alla fine i requisiti utente erano parecchio mutati. L'applicazione, già fatturata, non era ancora stata validata dal Cliente finale, ed era passata di mano moltissime volte.
Da un lato c'era la necessità di fornire uno strumento semplice da utilizzare, dall'altro la possibilità di espanderlo nel momento in cui le esigenze di Business del Cliente fossero cambiate, contenendo i costi di sviluppo.
Questi due aspetti erano acuiti in questo contesto, poiché i dati potevano provenire da fonti assai eterogenee per tipologia (database o personale del marketing) e l'utente finale doveva elaborarle in modo uniforme e rapido.
Per queste ragioni la specifica era cambiata spesso nel tempo, e la sfida era notevole.
PDFGenerator è semplice dal punto di vista software, e la sua forza sta nell'idea, e nella capacità di capire l'utente finale.
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After a bit of work, I have managed to optimize the performance of my Postgresql Server.
I have spent a saturday morning digging around postgresql, using the fantastic komodo editor, and I am happy with the final solution.
I followed some suggestion on power PostgreSQL site, and now my postgres is blazing fast. For small needs, tuning postgres is easy as working with MySql. And with postgres you get for free Transaction and PL/SQL without the need to do extra configuration or tuning or your database.
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In the last year, "Apple Computer" has changed a bit its focus.
First of all, Apple has erased the word "computer" in the company name.
Then, has shifted its focus on new products like the iPhone.
iPhone is a GSM telephone, and so it is quite different product for a computer company.
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There is a future for SmallTalk? I was a very strong fan of the SmallTalk language, but in the last five years I have seen more and more contraction of its usage in the IT field.
The OLPC project, which uses also Squeak Smalltalk and its done by the core team fo Squeak, is not going very well.
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I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.
In the article pointed out, the quite dead Chandler project is compared to the multi-billion Eclipse project. And then a too easy analysis is done against dynamic languages, where Java is the absolute winner.
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Oracle buys BEA and Sun buys MySql.
In reply,Migrosoft is hungry and is watching Yahoo :-)
<joking>
Any bets on the next money-based-news?
I'm going for
- Oracle buys Sun: "We need more hardware to run Oracle and WebLogic together! "
- Google buys Oracle: "We have *even* more hardware...come on!"
- Apple buys Google: "So nice LOGO", retrodating a bunch of stock options, I suppose.
- Microsoft buys Apple ("So annoied their are more cool then us!") and shut down all them all so you will end up using their search engine, I hope.
</joking>
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Hi readers, with the beginning of 2008, ObjectsRoot.com will change a bit its face.
First of all, all Italian article will be moved to the new “vamp” site, thinked as a news site.
Objectsroot will focus on IT Business and it will host only english content: IT article will remain here, at least for a while.
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Si fa un gran parlare di Extreme Programming? Ma se non volete fallire, su quali basi la vostra azienda deve veramente reggersi? In questo articolo vediamo un excursus sul Pezzent Programming, usato nella produzione industriale di Dolci
Estratti dal manuale del Pezzent Cooking Management:
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ObjectsRoot.com offers customized hosting.
All of ObjectsRoot.com software is open source, and you can download it from the master site
Current customers include:
- Scheggia Book Sharing Accounting Application
- MyTranslationExpert.com a professional translation service site
- Sirio, a medical and high secure private application. (for privacy reason no public URL is provided).
To get pricing, send your request describing your needs to our email address
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iPhone is a very nice project, well designed and manufactered, but the market addressed is
an hard bet for Apple.
Big players are already on the ground: Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony for instance.So it is difficult to play in such market, and some analysts said "the touch screen was not successful for GSM/phone products".
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