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.

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As you know, we at Gioorgi are not so Cloud-Computing enthusiastic.

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Do you like Arduino?

Do you like dynamic programming languages like ruby?

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Because of the success of my article on java closure, I have decided to write another article on functional programming.

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In the past week I learned Flask, a very young and promising  python framework. I have already learned Django, Cherrypy, Web2Py and TurboGears.

Anyway, if you are planning a medium sized project, I like to suggest you Flask, because of these feature:

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Ciao bimbo mio, poiché sei un maschio, e potresti diventare papà tra circa 25-30 anni, è bene che io ti prepari a tale compito.

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Da qualche mese la stampa specializzata continua a ciurlare nel manico quando si parla di crisi europea, di Portogallo Irlanda & Grecia, e si tenta di accomunare il destino della Grecia a paesi come la Spagna e l’Italia. Vediamo di confutare alcune di questi “timori economici” in modo ironico ma serio:

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At Gioorgi.com we are not a true cloud fan, and reality is going on to collect proofs for us…

On June 20, 2011, Dropbox had a serious security bug. It was possible to login to an account with “a wrong password”. Like to say Dropbox account system was naked, because “a small number of users[…] could have logged into an account without the correct password”!

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I Fatti

Pisapia, il candidato di sinistra (e non tanto di centro ha vinto a Milano con il 55,1% delle preferenze.

A Napoli, è stata premiata una coalizione vicina a quella uscente ma distinta, e De Magistris con oltre il 65% delle preferenze avrà parecchia liberta di manovra poiché potrà contare su una maggioranza solida, composta da persone fedeli al suo partito.

Pisapia è stato scelto durante le primarie del centro sinistra, ed ha battuto il candidato moderato Boeri.

L’Italia dei Valori, di cui fa parte De Magistris, non ha mai risparmiato a Berlusconi una critica feroce e circostanziata.

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Inversion of Control (IoC) is a very good idea.

But as the clever Joel Spolsky  noted, sometimes you need to be a super-natural hero to use it:

… I try not to be judgemental (HAHA!), but I think that people who use IoC containers are (A) very smart and (B) lacking in empathy for people who aren't as smart as they are. Everything makes perfect sense to them, so they have trouble understanding that many ordinary programmers will find the concepts confusing. It's the curse of knowledge. The people who understand IoC containers have trouble believing that there are people who don't understand it. …

I have trouble using Spring in at least two projects. On the third, it was a disaster, because a single software-architect-guy keeps passing around the Spring context factory as method parameter, getting beans from it!
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