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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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This article has been retained for hisorical reasons. In this article we refers to blog.Objectsroot.com a site discontinued on August 2008
After some time, I have decided to start redesigning the content and the look of ObjectsRoot.com I have slightly reduced the tags section, over-simplifying the access to my huge set of articles. With over 100 posts, there is no need of so much tags. The search engine will help you to find old articles: do not worry anyway, permalinks will remain valid for a long time!
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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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I am very happy to announce my personal annotated Python Search Engine.
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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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Updated on April 15th: Berlusconi wins
[First Published on 23th of March]
If you like to have a view of Italy, I am writing a set of article on the Italy's 2008 Election.I have written it in italian, but the final thoughts will be in English.
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We read in wikipedia:
"Mac OS X is the successor to the original Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system since 1984 [...] The first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, and a desktop-oriented version, Mac OS X v10.0 followed in March 2001"
The funny thing about MacOSX launch was the huge hype on the retail box: it was named "The world's most advanced operating system" and really it was very huge leap ahead.
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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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This is the sad true: parsing is boring. And writing parser is even worst.
If you can choose a scripting language for parsing you can think to do it in perl.
For this way, take a big breath and go in the black sea of perl's funny regexp. They are funny only if you have that special love for the regular expressions.
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Prima la buona notizia:Extreme Programming (XP) funziona!
Attenzione: articolo rivolto a persone con il senso dello humor!!
Esistono solo alcune banali dettagli e qualche nefasto fattore da tenere sotto controllo, ma per il resto funziona.
Io, che ormai sono acclamato come esperto di crepes e consulente da quasi dieci anni, sono qui per mettervi al corrente del Verbo di XP.
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Is it amazing things you can do with a simple Bourne Again Shell (bash).
I have just discovered you can open socket using a small redirection syntax, and emulate small checks you normally do with curl or wget.
The bash shell manual is always poor about examples, and this is very very sad.
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Ogni mattina passo dietro un parco trotter di una grande citta', Milano. Li' davanti ad un muretto trovo sempre un City Angels e un tipo che sicuramente ha problemi di droga.
Stanno li' nel freddo della mattina, mentre i dipendenti del comune puliscono l parco dietro di loro.
Un'altro giorno sono li', mentre i residenti portano i cani sul marciapiede (il parco e' a due metri ma si sa' il tempo e' prezioso…).
Il bello e' che ieri quello con la voce impastata non era il tossico ma il City Angels.
Erano vicini e l'angelo sembrava veramente il tossico…per fortuna che c'era quest'ultimo!
Che esistano persone che hanno insospettabili angeli?
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Celeste
Celeste is a mail reading and organizing program. The name "Celeste" is a reference to an earlier mail reader named Baba, which was written at Xerox PARC by Steve Putz and John Maloney.
Nowadays, Celeste is maintained by Giovanni Giorgi (me).Latest Feature
A new revision is planned for the end of September 2006, and code name will be "Sonic". Sonic will include a smart mailing-list filter and a better "leave message on server" option. I implemented years ago an auto-filtering system in AppleScript. The filtering engine used the RFC2369 and some other tricks to detect yahoo mailing list. Sonic will have also an auto-filter for google mailing list too.The leave message on server option is quite bad now. It creates a lot of duplicated messages.
The new implementation will avoid dowloading twice a message, using a mix of messageId and timestamp to detect duplicated messages.
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