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The trends of this october are about some upcoming products. A clear analisys of <a href="http://www.roughlydrafted.com/Sept05.Quark.html"
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Dynamic languages troubles
Jan 30, 2008 路 3 min read en blog-objectsrootcom 路 again ant api arc build business car code complex database design easy eclipse example fix hard hosting http ibm import java lion microsoft perl php plugin project projects python ruby simple small smalltalk software sql system tools trouble ui unix war web world 路I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.
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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.
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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!
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Asus EEE-PC better then Mac Air?
May 7, 2008 路 4 min read en blog-objectsrootcom 路 arc build car code commercial development easy file fini freedom funny future games good hacking hard ideas internet italia italy linux news pd performance reader rim search site small software system telecom test trouble ubuntu ui vi war web windows world 路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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SQLite is a small, powerful embedded database. A friend of mine started using it about聽six years ago. Some years ago it comes also聽on top of 聽Python 2.5. It is used inside
- FileMaker Bento: its ultra customized model is based on a big sqllite db
- DropBox聽client, to store its internal state
- iPhone: stores your SMS and also other stuff. It is widely used by apps.
- Apple Safari uses it for HTML5 storage support
- Google Gears uses it
- ...and in a lot of embedded product.
I was annoyed because until version 3.1.3 SQLite聽did not provide an alter table syntax聽but...聽it is quite easy to emulate it with something like this, even if it required a bit of work:
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