I am happy to announce Version 1.0 of BWolf my book manager writte in python django. I have just installed it for my first customer. You can grab the 1.0 version from the Subversion repository.

 

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iPhone is the brand-new Apple product which has changed the way Apple thinks. Because of iPhone, Apple strip the word "Computers" from its brand name. And because of iPods and iPhone products, Lepoard developmenet slip a bit, blurring the focus on pure technology.
To be true, I do not beat on  the iPhone success, but the product success is at least  bright this year. And the iPod touch has also added value to the iPods product catalog. But I am an IT-man, damn you boy! So I want to buy it to play with it, to program with it!

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Ho appena finito di leggere il libro "Gomorra" di Roberto Saviano, preferendolo al film. Il testo è denso, e in alcuni punti leggermente frammentario. "Gomorra" però è un ottimo esempio di quel giornalismo sul campo, fatto da un giovane ragazzo (Saviano è nato nel 1979) che non si accontenta e arriva fino nel cuore della realtà in cui vive. E' un tipo di giornalismo che ricorda molto Enzo Biagi, e che fa additato come esempio ai giovani scrittori di oggi come di domani.

All'inizio non avevo molta voglia di leggere "Gomorra", perché pensavo dicesse le solite cose che si sanno sulla mafia, tipiche di un vecchio film come "il Padrino" o "Scarface". Invece il testo è molto diverso, ed estremamente istruttivo, per capire come è fondata l'economia criminale, e getta anche una luce oscura sui piedi su cui si poggia il sistema economico italiano.

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Some times ago I have the lucky to read  "Producing Open Source Software":

[...] a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. The book is released under an open copyright: it is available in bookstores and from the publisher (O'Reilly Media), or you can browse or download it [...]

Valuable parts, which we suggest to read:

• Social Infrastructure
• Communications
• Managing Volunteers

Open source is a value, especially here in Italy, where the small consulting firms have no time/ no hope of developing strong commercial reality.

Open source so can be a way for a cheap investiment.

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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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Book review by Stefano Fago: This book introduce one of most interesting  language of new wave of functional programming. You will find a complete overview of clojure language focusing in functional paradigm that can be the real obstacle for a standard developer. The author try to follow you on learning different subject with a lot of examples but sometimes it need more reflection and time to master some arguments and a syntax that may seems obscure. The book is a good starting point to introduce you to a new way of programming but also to learn some particulars aspect of Java. To consider a complete but not easy reading. However a book to have!

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After a long experience with O'Reilly, we decided to try their service "Safari Books Online". This article will explore the pros and cons of this courageous service, which we believe will give you many satisfactions.

La versione italiana di questo articolo è disponibile a questo link.

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Mercurial, The Definitive Guide

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My Big Company asked me to develop a small-sized application using C# and WebForms. The Customer was a big Italian Bank, and it asked for that technology: I was chosen because of my Java seniority, but I was zero on .NET knowledge

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Joe Bastianich è famoso in Italia come giudice di Master Chef. Joe è di origine triestina, e figlio d'arte, per cosí dire: suo padre e sua madre sono famosi ristoratori.

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