Sun ha lanciato JavaFX 1.0, piattafroma software  di cui ci siamo già occupati in tempi non sospetti. La notizia è stata ripresa da Slashdot. Purtroppo leggiamo anche che non c’è al momento una versione per Linux o Solaris: “The lack of a Linux or Solaris release is a notable absence.” Però la presenza del codec On2  (usato per riprodurre i filmati di youtube) lascia pensare che javafx voglia competere frontalmente con Flash.

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Python 3.0

We are pleased to announce the release of Python 3.0 (final), a new production-ready release, on December 3rd, 2008.

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We read and report:

Tonight, to clear up some problems with the packaging of the Django 1.0.1 release from Friday, we've released Django 1.0.2; once again, this is a bugfix-only release, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone targeting or using Django 1.0 or Django 1.0.1.

Weblog entry announcing the release is here: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/nov/18/102/ Release notes are here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.0.2/

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I am happy Django Team has released version 1.0 of its python web framework. It was planned for 21th of September, but they speed up things :) We can read on Django web site:

Developed and used over two years by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it. It lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly.

Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY principle.

In my own opinion django is too much “DRY”, and sometimes simpler solutions was avoided by them because considered “dirty”. Anyway, I have followed Django from 2006, and I suggest you to give it a try.

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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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