After reading an interesting article on Erlang  and Java interoperability, I have decided to dedicate my spare time to Erlang.

O’Reilly has just published a wonderful book on Erlang, so I decided to dive into it.

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Several years ago I had the need of keep in sync three computers.  After some questions on a java mailing list, a very smart guy suggested me Unison.

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YASnippet is a template system for emacs. It allows you to type a abbrevation and automatically expand the abbreviation into function templates.

Bundled language templates includes: C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, LaTeX, HTML, CSS and more.

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At Gioorgi.com we have used plenty of web frameworks.

Giovanni Giorgi used Seaside,  a lot of PHP frameworks, Java Struts, RubyOnRails, and Python Django.

We have started to look for Web2Py, a compact,  easy to learn  python web framework.

From the most notable feature, it runs also on Google App Engine. Written by an Italian University professor for teaching web development, spots a very clean design, and a robust security infrastructure. We  suggest it because installation (and upgrading) is a snap.

Let’s take a look to it…

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Released on June 8, 2009  Jython 2.5RC4 is out!

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PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP "task" classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. Features include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template transformations), file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, CVS operations, tools for creating PEAR packages, and much more.

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Non siamo mai stati dei simpatizzanti di Mr Berlusconi Silvio, sulle pagine di Gioorgi. Non ci è mai piaciuta la sua politica, nessuna sua proposta o tentazione anti-legale, anche se ogni tanto il suo humor da barzellettiere ci ha fatto ridere.

La vita personale del signor B. non è per noi significativa: sono i fatti politici che ci interessano.

In Italia (contrariamente all’America e ad una certa Europa), la vita privata di un premier non è mai stata motivo di dimissioni. E tra un incolore Andreotti e un frizzante Berlusca, sarei tentato di preferire il secondo, se non ci fossero risvolti penali.

Questo non ci esime però da alcune osservazioni sulle notizie che circolano, e che sembrerebbero avere ripercussioni politiche.

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iMacros - Web Automation, Web Testing and Web Scraping

Record & replay all web surfing activities

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In late 1994, when I need to write a programming language it was a pain. You must start with flex, lex and so on, and the way will be very long.

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