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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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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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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At Gioorgi.com we will start a series of articles about bug tracking. As usual, our posts will be short, tight focused and open to comments and improvement.

A software will be full of bugs at some point of its life, and every good developer/project manager must be ready to address these issue. Let's see how to fix them....

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Modulo1: Java, algoritmi e strutture dati di base.

1. Introduzione alle collezioni In particolare Map, TreeMap, ArrayList, Set, tutte del package java.util Classi: Arrays/Collections
2. Eccezioni: Gerarchia delle eccezioni. Eccezioni: articolo illustrativo in Italiano
3. Unicode e Internazionalizzazione Ottimo Articolo sull'Unicode e i character set in generale Introduzione alla API di internazionalizzazione

Domande di verifica del Modulo1:

• Come si fa ad ordinare una lista utilizzando l'API di Java? Ordina una Enumeration usando due sole chiamate.
• A cosa serve l'interfaccia Map.Entry? Fai un esempio d'uso.
• Che differenza c'è tra Throwable e Exception? Perché OutOfMemoryError deriva da Error e non da Exception?
• A cosa serve ResourceBundle?

Modulo2: Java e i Thread

• Introduzione alla gestione dei processi paralleli (Thread)

Modulo3: Java e il Web

1. Concetto di Deployment, Jar ecc
2. Java e il Web. Specifica delle Servlet &  Javadoc
3. Specifica HTTP 1.0

Domande di verifica del Modulo2:

• A cosa serve l'interfaccia SingleThreadedModel?
• Perché HttpSession non ha getParameter()? A cosa serve la classe URLEncoder?

Riferimenti

• Riepilogo delle librerie (visuale)
• Elenco Esempi Java Base
• Specifiche J2EE più usate al momento

In the previous article we introduced the reader to the bug tracking tools.

In this article we will analyze Mantis, an open source bug tracking tool It is very important to stress you are going to use much more time to set up an open source bug tracking tool. A fraction of this time is for setting it up, but the vast majority of your time will be spent setting it up, customizing it and recovering information on it.

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As we have seen, bug tracking tools are a very important piece of your It infrastructure. Some tools aims to be a storing ticketing system (like Remedy), others a simple bug tracking tool.  In this second post we are going to analyze one of them, called FogBugz

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Trac is a quite famous bug tracking software written in python.

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After some time, Wordpress 2.7 is out:

WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1

By Ryan Boren. Filed under Releases.

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