This article has been retained for hisorical reasons. In this article we refers to blog.Objectsroot.com a site discontinued on August 2008

After some time, I have decided to start redesigning the content and the look of ObjectsRoot.com I have slightly reduced the tags section, over-simplifying the access to my huge set of articles. With over 100 posts, there is no need of so much tags. The search engine will help you to find old articles: do not worry anyway, permalinks will remain valid for a long time!

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.

Per un importante cliente di ValueTeam, ho sviluppato per un'applicazione chiamata PDFGenerator, che è stata pacchettizzata come un vero e proprio prodotto.
PDFGenerator nasce in una situazione caratterizzata da un alta variabilità dei requisiti utente.

Le specifiche del progetto hanno subito variazioni significative nell'arco di quattro anni, ed alla fine i requisiti utente erano parecchio mutati.  L'applicazione, già fatturata, non era ancora stata validata dal Cliente finale, ed era passata di mano moltissime volte.
Da un lato c'era la necessità di fornire uno strumento semplice da utilizzare, dall'altro la possibilità di espanderlo nel momento in cui le esigenze di Business del Cliente fossero cambiate, contenendo i costi di sviluppo.
Questi due aspetti erano acuiti in questo contesto, poiché i dati potevano provenire da fonti assai eterogenee per tipologia (database o personale del marketing) e l'utente finale doveva elaborarle in modo uniforme e rapido.
Per queste ragioni la specifica era cambiata spesso nel tempo, e la sfida era notevole.
PDFGenerator è semplice dal punto di vista software, e la sua forza sta nell'idea, e nella capacità di capire l'utente finale.

Updated on April 15th: Berlusconi wins

[First Published on 23th of March]

If you like to have a view of Italy, I am writing a set of article on the Italy's 2008 Election.I have written it in italian, but the final thoughts will be in English.

We read in wikipedia:

"Mac OS X is the successor to the original Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system since 1984 [...] The first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, and a desktop-oriented version, Mac OS X v10.0 followed in March 2001"
The funny thing about MacOSX launch was the huge hype on the retail box: it was named "The world's most advanced operating system" and really it was very huge leap ahead.

Let the Zend Framework introduce itself as a Borg would do: 

"Hi dear RubyOnRails. Hi all. I am the Zend Framework, a small work (about  5 tons of code) done by IBM and Zend to destroy you. You think php is not able to build big project?... do you?
So you have dared to develop RubyOnRails or Perl or Python, thinking you can own the web in your way... Dear nerds you are so funny and young!!" in a lamp of light the borg duplicate itselfs in 100 indians programmers, saying together

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 market, and some analysts said  "the touch screen was not successful for GSM/phone products".

My first webcam video....
See and have fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53CIgqpD0S8

The Story
I have just bought a new fantastic Mac computer. So I tried my webcam, and in the same evening a friend of mine give me a cigarette (I  don't smoke so I tried it in front of my webcam).

(First published on 2007-01-20)

Hi all, ObjectsRoot now has correct story ordering ontags view!

I am happy to announce I have just installed tinymce on my site.

TinyMCE is a very nice javascript editor, also used in Drupal. What makes tinymce very nice in my humble own opinion, is its easy installation. You do not need complex init procedure: you just tell tiny you want to edit well textareas, and it will do all for you. Because django  (my web framework for the site) has a bit complex way for handling administration pages, this is good news for objectsroot.com.

Hi blog readers! Your trip master has just come back from a win trip done in the swap of the year. We have been in Modena in December and in Padova, this month. We have done one-day-trips, fast and furious as usual. I have done about 6 photos to Modena. I liked a bit more Padova, which needs at least two days to be seen. Padova has a lot of beautiful and nice churches to see. Consider only the Scrovengi’s Chapel, very well known.