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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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Dynamic languages troubles
Jan 30, 2008 路 3 min readen blog-objectsrootcom 路 again ant api arc build business car code complex database design easy eclipse example fix hard hosting http ibm import java lion microsoft perl php plugin project projects python ruby simple small smalltalk software sql system tools trouble ui unix war web world路I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.
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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.
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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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Asus EEE-PC better then Mac Air?
May 7, 2008 路 4 min readen blog-objectsrootcom 路 arc build car code commercial development easy file fini freedom funny future games good hacking hard ideas internet italia italy linux news pd performance reader rim search site small software system telecom test trouble ubuntu ui vi war web windows world路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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