August throughts

Code must be easy to read, and understand. For this reason I do not like very much technologies like:

1. Aspect oriented programming
2. SQL Triggers
3. Web filters
4. Last minute event listeners (like the one check before an entity save and 'patch' some data on the fly or launch additional events).

Side effects are the evil of programing in my humble opinion because can create unexpected bugs.

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!

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 uses also Squeak Smalltalk and its done by the core team fo Squeak, is not going very well.

Si fa un gran parlare di Extreme Programming? Ma se non volete fallire, su quali basi la vostra azienda deve veramente reggersi? In questo articolo vediamo un excursus sul Pezzent Programming, usato nella produzione industriale di Dolci

Estratti dal manuale del Pezzent Cooking Management:

Prima la buona notizia:Extreme Programming (XP) funziona!

Attenzione: articolo rivolto a persone con il senso dello humor!!

Esistono solo alcune banali dettagli e qualche nefasto fattore da tenere sotto controllo, ma per il resto funziona.

Io, che ormai sono acclamato come esperto di crepes e consulente da quasi dieci anni, sono qui per mettervi al corrente del Verbo di XP. 

The trends of this october are about some upcoming products. A clear analisys of QuarkXPress failure is sketched in roughlydrafted site. I do not think the same consideration can be applied to Vista.

As Joel said, M$ can throw away much money before only starting to see its market reduced.

Steve is not a normal solution provider.
Steve is the final destination for Project Management troubles.

Let's see how Steve can solve problems

The Ten Steve Rules

1. If you have a customer you can get my attention
2. If your project is run out of time and you need to finish the product yesterday, you will face a disaster. Call me
3. Cannabis programming is too light
4. You cannot offer a Lunch to Steve, unless you have four ticket resturants and at least one more for you
5. Are you saying you need more time to finishing the use case? These are details. If you cannot get it in the required time, I will fire you (Loading a gun): in the real sense.
6. Peace and calm are an useless evil.
7. True Metal Hackerz get the work done in less time then you
8. Linux has a a cold bird as Logo. This is enought to kick it off the project.
9. I prefer Illy over Java, sorry
10. There isn't a tenth rule