Tag Archives: build

Phing

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Giovanni Giorgi

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 … Continue reading →

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Asus EEE-PC better then Mac Air?

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Giovanni Giorgi

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 … Continue reading →

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iPhone programming

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Giovanni Giorgi

iPhone Open Application Development
By Jonathan A. Zdziarski
First Edition March 2008
Pages: 280
ISBN 10: 0-596-51855-2 | ISBN 13: 9780596518554 Continue reading →

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Apple as hardware only company

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Giovanni Giorgi

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 … Continue reading →

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Javascript and Smalltalk

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Giovanni Giorgi

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 … Continue reading →

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Dynamic languages troubles

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Giovanni Giorgi

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 :)

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