Tag Archives: hard

Junction: symbolic directory links on Windows

Windows 2000 and higher supports directory symbolic links, where a directory serves as a symbolic link to another directory on the computer. […]Directory symbolic links are known as NTFS junctions in Windows. Unfortunately, Windows comes with no tools for creating … Continue reading
Posted in English Content, Knowledgebase | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Asus EEE-PC better then Mac Air?

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
Posted in English Content, Legacy ObjectsRoot.com | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Apple as hardware only company

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
Posted in English Content, Legacy ObjectsRoot.com | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Apple as hardware only company

Javascript and Smalltalk

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
Posted in English Content, Legacy ObjectsRoot.com | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Javascript and Smalltalk

Dynamic languages troubles

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 :)

Continue reading
Posted in English Content, Legacy ObjectsRoot.com | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Dynamic languages troubles

Shopping in the IT

 


Oracle buys BEA
and Sun buys MySql.

In reply,Migrosoft is hungry and is watching Yahoo :-)

Let's play a bit with these ideas :)

Continue reading
Posted in English Content, Legacy ObjectsRoot.com | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Shopping in the IT

iPhone success is hard

iPhone is a very nice project, well designed and manufactered, but the market addressed is an hard bet for Apple.Big players are already on the ground: Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony for instance. So it is difficult to play in such … Continue reading
Posted in English Content, Legacy ObjectsRoot.com | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on iPhone success is hard