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 …
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. There are a lot of sites and …
iPhone Open Application Development
By Jonathan A. Zdziarski
First Edition March 2008
Pages: 280
ISBN 10: 0-596-51855-2 | ISBN 13: 9780596518554
In the last year, "Apple Computer" has changed a bit its focus. First of all, Apple has erased the word "computer" in the company name. Then, has shifted its focus on new products like the iPhone. iPhone is a GSM telephone, and so it is quite different product for a computer company. I see a …
There is a future for SmallTalk? I was a very strong fan of the SmallTalk language, but in the last five years I have seen more and more contraction of its usage in the IT field. The OLPC project, which uses also Squeak Smalltalk and its done by the core team fo Squeak, is not …
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.
I will try to fix some of the things said there, and to add also my two cents here :)
Review of "Getting Started with Pyparsing", Copyright © 2008 O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9780596514235
Released: October 4, 2007
Let the Zend Framework introduce itself as a Borg would do: "Hi dear RubyOnRails. Hi all. I am the Zend Framework, a small work (about 5 tons of code) done by IBM and Zend to destroy you. You think php is not able to build big project?… do you? So you have dared to develop …
Sometimes I need to build a small script to delete a huge set of tables of a schema. In Oracle is easy to do it, using the meta tables "all_tables", "all_views", and "all_sequences": select 'drop table ' || table_name || ' cascade constraints;' from all_tables where owner='protoss' and table_name not like 'BIN%';select 'drop view …
