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C'è stata molta eccitazione intorno alla presentazione dell'iPad da parte della Apple.
Il prodotto finale risulta una specie di "iPhone più grosso", con funzionalità simili al Kindle di Amazon, che ovviamente consta circa 200 dollari di meno.
E allora dove sta la novità, la geniale lungimiranza di Steve Jobs?
In realtà l'iPad è un passo avanti nel tentativo di creare un ecosistema che faccia terra bruciata dei concorrenti, come già è successo per l'iPhone ("il solito cellulare touch..."ricordate?): vediamo perché.
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"After only 2 years since the previous version, now emacs 23 .1 is available. It brings many new features, of which the support for anti-aliased fonts on X may be the most visible. Also, there is support for starting emacs in the background, so you can pop up new emacs windows in the blink of an eye. There are many other bigger and smaller improvements, including support for D-Bus, Xembed, and viewing PDFs inside emacs. And not to forget, M-x butterfly. You can get emacs 23 from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ or one of its mirrors; alternatively, there are binary packages available, for example from Ubuntu PPA."
via Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters.For the young readers, emacs is the oldest Open Source project out of there. And it has a lot to teach to the other integrated developement environments!
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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 include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template transformations), file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, CVS operations, tools for creating PEAR packages, and much more.
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In late 1994, when I need to write a programming language it was a pain. You must start with flex, lex and so on, and the way will be very long.
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Yahoo has been a vociferous Apache Hadoop user and supporter for several years now, and uses it extensively within its Search technologies. Hadoop has been gaining popularity in the Cloud Computing space, with companies like the NYTimes converting 4TB and 11 million articles to PDFs in under 24 hours using Hadoop and EC2 in late 2007. Hadoop has been made available in Amazon's cloud and Yahoo has now released its own Hadoop version.
from Slashdot | Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution.