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Monthly Archives: March 2004

Mono slides

Miguel de Icaza points at some mono presentations… nice stuff!

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 ” [...]

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 HPSample 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]