Mono slides
Miguel de Icaza points at some mono presentations… nice stuff!
Archive for March, 2004
Temporary (or not?) new feed
As someone told me, the RSS feed is broken - it seems that I’m so unlucky with RSS publishing 
- so I’m using a new external service (Blogger.com provides Atom 0.3 only).
Here is the link: subscribe
Windows is definitely more secure than Linux
So… nobody after reading this could deny that Microsoft Windows is less secure than (everybody’s) Linux. Very funny 
Generics Aren’t
It’s the title of the last post of Bruce Eckel on his weblog. He talks about latent typing, Sun idiosyncrasies and other stuff. The funniest passage is:
” Aside: note the use of extends rather than implements in the generic type constraint. implements won’t work. Java is precise and consistent because Sun says it is ”
update:
I forgot the link: http://mindview.net/WebLog/log-0050
ps. this is my 100th post on this blog
QueryBuilder is out
The long awaited QueryBuilder tool is out. The QueryBuilder is a GUI tool to visually build SQL statements. Nice job Gianluca!
Homepage: QueryBuilder HP
Sample screenshot: Select query with auto join
Thinking about the future (and mine too)
I’m not in love with any corporation at all. I love technologies. This is the reason why I like Python, Haskell, C# and .NET and so on. I like programming but I don’t want to tie myself with one language, one technology and worse… one corporation… so I’m thinking… I’m thinking about my future as a developer, as a player of the IT world. The truth is that the perfect technology does not exist… I do like and dislike Java, love and hate .NET, esteem Python but still waiting for its worldwide support and so on. I’m looking at the facts… today is the sixth day of March, 2004 and .NET is two years old and If I erase my .NET related blog feeds and websites, I don’t see any .NET at all. No desktop apps, no starting up projects, few stuff on sourceforge, two or three job offers… the horizon is distressing if you look through the hype. I don’t know the reason why but it’s not a good thing. I know, I know, we’ll have to wait for Longhorn to see a large .NET adoption but: Longhorn today counts less than zero; we’ll don’t see it until the end of time (3/4 four years in IT are ages). Look at now: Java, with its problems, with its advantages and drawbacks is wide spread; Python is the best language I’ve ever used and works pretty everywhere. Haskell is cool technology in the pure form. C# is a nice language but I could live with the drawbacks of Java (cause it’s not far different from it).
So… how will be the future? I don’t know. Nobody knows… and I’m still thinking.
Windows vs. Linux
In the endless religious war against who’s better between the MS proprietary operating system and the open source Linux world raises up the war of prices. And so people move from sentences like “Windows is bad for abc reason” and “Linux sucks because xyz doesn’t work as I’m used to” to stuff like “Windows licences costs too much” or “Linux is free and so you’ll pay nothing of nothing”… in this crowd of phrases I’ve found an article, a simple and clear one: Enterprise Linux vs. Server 2003: Smackdown!. It’s old but not too much.
Media types list
Last thursday I’ve checked into the cvs tree of Atom.NET a comprehensive list that I’ve assembled containing quite every media type out there. It’s plain text divided into two columns separated with space (easily parseable). The first column is the mime type (eg. text/plain) and the second one is the url of the specification of the mime type (eg. http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt). So, here you are: mediatypes.txt
