Utilities like Telnet and remote control programs like Symantec's PC Anywhere let you execute programs on remote systems, but they can be a pain to set up and require that you install client software on the remote systems that you wish to access. PsExec is a light-weight telnet-replacement that lets you execute processes on other systems, complete with full interactivity for console applications, without having to manually install client software. PsExec's most powerful uses include launching interactive command-prompts on remote systems and remote-enabling tools like IpConfig that otherwise do not have the ability to show information about remote systems.

Gavin King (the inventor of Hibernate) fired out a new language project called Ceylon (I suppose referring to the Tea versus the Java Café). I love new languages. I know a bit of them, and I work with Java form 1995, so I will do a deep review of this news…

F# is a Microsoft research Language. F# is riding the functional revenge way of the last years. F# is a mixed approach, because some variables can be modified. It borrows a lot of things from Haskell and OCaml  (Wikipedia dixit). F# is not used like Erlang or Haskell but it could be installed with Visual Studio 2010, and as a separate visual studio plug-in. If you need some functional stuff on your .NET architecture,  F# can be your friend.

Ho iniziato ad usare Emacs quando ero in università. Un volta un mio collega mi disse: “Non ho ancora capito se chi usa emacs è un genio o un folle”.(*) Dopo anni di utilizzo, ho dovuto servirmi spesso di Eclipse, ed Emacs è finito nel dimenticatoio. Ho anche provato a sostituirlo con JEdit e VIM, e mi sono sempre pentito. Intendiamoci, VIM è un ottimo editor, ma è forse più complicato di Emacs.

Mi è sempre piaciuto scrivere, e quindi ho finito per servirmi di MS-Word 2010 per i miei racconti, e di Eclipse per sviluppare non solo in Java ma anche in Python, Ruby ecc… Ora ho scoperto che potrei fare tutto, ma veramente tutto questo con Emacs 23… ma andiamo con ordine.

(*) Per i fanatici di VI, la mia battuta preferita è che “VI è stato creato da un pianista mancato” fatta da un mio collega di lavoro nel 2002…

This is the second article on functional programming. In the first one we talked about scala and the type inference system it brings in the Java Way of Life.

I played a bit with python functional howto, building a small game. Before starting I surfing for a bit of libraries and documentation.

Be strong young Jedi. This war will begin shortly. You can try to keep you jdk under your pillow, but the html5 will hit you in the middle of the night. And a knife in the dark will rise from shadow: JavaScript

I admit it: I hate xml square brackets dancing orgy, even in Java.