The trends of this october are about some upcoming products. A clear analisys of <a href=“http://www.roughlydrafted.com/Sept05.Quark.html"

Is it amazing things you can do with a simple Bourne Again Shell  (bash).

Sometimes I need to build a small script to delete a huge set of tables of a schema.

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

This is the sad true: parsing is boring. And writing parser is even worst.

I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.

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.

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!

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.