• Vampata d'amore... video estivo

    calendar Aug 14, 2008 路 1 min read  humor  路 uncategorized video  路
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    L'estate 猫 proprio esplosa... per non lasciare soli soletti chi naviga su gioorgi.com a Ferragosto, eccovi un simpatico video chiamato "Vampata d'Amore".


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  • Summer is summer

    calendar Aug 8, 2008 路 1 min read  en  路 site  路
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    This is the first summer for Gioorgi.com.

    The Editor-in-Chief has just selected a bunch of article to schedule in the next weeks.


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  • Projects ideas

    calendar Aug 5, 2008 路 2 min read  en  路 ideas redscorpion spam  路
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    Some random application ideas, for the RedScorpion section...

    Inspired聽by the Italian Java User Group, I have done a "bet" on two simple project, to look forward them as a "projects for the user and not the technical guys". The project are only idea at the time of writing, but if you think they can be good, leave a comment below. Bye :)


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  • Brasil Windows Backup Script 1.0

    calendar Aug 3, 2008 路 2 min read  en  路 backup brasil4win python redscorpion script  路
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    We are happy to announce the first version of brasil for window, a small python backup script.

    Brasil4Windows is a small python script you can use to zip and backup your files on a regular basis. Brasil4Win offers:

    • LowLoad Backup. The script will try to pause under heavy load computer.
    • Fine-grained ETA using stored bytes AND passed time. It can print you a good extimation on when it will finish.
    • Skip-and-retry schema for locked files. Sometimes聽 under windows files are locked. Brasil4Win retry to open them from time to time.
    • Optimized for using Psyco: http://psyco.sf.net We suggest you to set it up psyco for on-the-fly compilation of the script. It rocks.
    • The script is released under GNU Public License License v2.0, so feel free to use it.

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  • Network computer

    calendar Aug 3, 2008 路 1 min read  en blog-objectsrootcom  路 business future gioorgi gioorgi-com system  路
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    Take a look to my article on the future of operating systems and network computers on Gioorgi.com.聽Gioorgi.com will slowly become the new business blog of Objectsroot.com


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  • Network computer: revisited

    calendar Aug 3, 2008 路 3 min read  en software  路 ideas redscorpion trends  路
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    The Network Computer was a bad idea born in the middle of the '90, and ended up to be completly wrong. Anyway, the current software tecnologhy (like AJAX, Google Gears, the psedo-new-ms-windows os called midori) can be helpuful to sketch a new idea of operating system.

    The network computer fails because it pretends to store all information (program, user data) on the server. Worst, it pretends a fee for application usage. But users preferred a buy-one model, because they didn't like the renting model

    In the NC world the Software company will also hold all you private documents, 聽a very security concerns.

    And the software company must guarantee also nobody will look your important market strategy stored on a corel draw excel. This things costs too much.

    Even Apple is trying to remove DRM from Apple Store, selling some titles without it. The reason is simple: apple needs to upgrade its copy protection scheme, for avoiding some hacker will be able to crak it. But this costs too much!

    Let's see what we can think now, after 10 years, a bunch of iPhone/EEPC out of there and Open Source full of life...


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  • Designing Interfaces with Balsamiq

    calendar Aug 1, 2008 路 3 min read  en featured knowledgebase software  路 design interface  路
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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聽smaller projects聽as project manager.

    I need a rapid way to sketch use cases, to pass them to a聽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聽BalsamIQ Mockup project. Let's see why it is a so good solution.


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  • Rialzati Italia

    calendar Aug 1, 2008 路 5 min read  it  路 avvocato-del-diavolo politica  路
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    Con disgusto mi sono allontanato dalla politica italiana per qualche mese, sia per come era finito il secondo verno Prodi sia perch茅 ho trovato vuota e insipida la campagna elettorale che ne 猫 seguita.

    Tuttavia ora sento il bisogno di riflettere e fare il punto della situazione corrente, senza prendere la parti di nessuno dei due schieramenti delineati dalle elezioni; il nuovo governo, sorto dopo una rovinosa instabilit脿 della coalizione di centro sinistra, 猫 nato con molte promesse, e ora inizia a dover affrontare i problemi reali.


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  • Il fondo che va a fondo

    calendar Jul 27, 2008 路 4 min read  en humor  路 economia  路
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    Il fondo che va a fondo

    Normalmente Gioorgi.com non 猫 un sito dedicato alla illustrazione degli errati investimenti della Redazione. Per貌 l'andamento del Fondo Arancio di ING Direct 猫 cos矛 fallimentare, cos矛 stupidamente deprimente che ci incita ad una concisa discussione sui meccanismi dei fondi, in modo semiserio.

    Poich茅 tra i fondatori di Gioorgi.com ve ne 猫 uno che ha contribuito al design del backend su cui si basa l'interfaccia di聽compravendita聽fondi (=Giovanni), ci siamo sentito molto in colpa quando abbiamo visto questo grafico:

    Andamento del fallimentare fondo arancio:left
    Andamento del fondo arancio

    Come si pu貌 osservare dal diabolico grafico, il fondo ha iniziato a veleggiare tranquillamente intorno ai 53 euro a botta. Giovanni, da bravo tester e risparmiatore 猫 arrivato ad acquistarne qualche modesta quota, per un prezzo di carico medio intorno ai 55 euro. Ha continuato fiducioso nel mercato anche durante la caduta a picco del titolo, che ha iniziato a verificarsi intorno al novembre 2007.

    Poich茅 il titolo stacca una cedola ogni giungo, il Gio credeva che di l矛 a sei mesi la bufera sarebbe passata, ma per sicurezza ha smesso di acquistare titoli, visto che la crisi dei mutui subprime stava iniziando a insospettirlo.聽


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  • Gioorgi.com projects page popped out!

    calendar Jul 21, 2008 路 1 min read  en software  路 redscorpion site  路
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    After a bit of working, the projects section聽of Gioorgi.com is coming into life. Gioorgi Team is looking forward the 2009 to finalize the research projects.


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