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Title: Sei Sicura Author: J-Ax Album: Di Sana Pianta Anno: 2006 ...

Migration to BlueHost done. I just lost all my [en:Page Rank] O_o I don’t understand why, but the only time interval without service was yesterday night: how is it possible? Anyway, now we are on a new Hosting Service: soon also the [en:DNS] will be migrated accordingly ;)

Today I have 2 personal albums to show. Be ready to Laugh! ;) [](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/RelocationDayFromAllSaintsToSouthwark)[Relocation Day: from All Saints to Southwark](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/RelocationDayFromAllSaintsToSouthwark) [](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/SortingOutMyNewRoomIn17WindmillHouse)[Sorting out my new Room in 17 Windmill House](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/SortingOutMyNewRoomIn17WindmillHouse) Yes, in all of them the main “subject” is Serage ;)

Normally I don’t spend time suggesting Add-ons/Plugins for Firefox or other stuff like that, but this is GREAT! Cooliris PicLens (here the Firefox Add-on Page), available on Windows & Mac; working with [en:Internet Explorer|IE], Firefox and [en:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)|Safari] (too!!!). Just install it, then go on any Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, wathever service that expose an [en:RSS] feed of pictures and… click on the PicLens icon (in Firefox will be in the upper right corner after the installation). ...

Ieri sono stato ricoperto di Orgoglio. E’ un grande. Lui si che lo e’. Ricordo quando da piccolo, nella mia mente, lui era sempre debole. Lui era quello da difendere. Ma allo stesso tempo quello di cui “dovevo dissimulare la difesa”: lui e’ sempre stato orgoglioso (ma penso che sia una cosa di famiglia ;-) ). E pensare che mi guardava come un Modello da imitare e fronteggiare allo stesso tempo. ...

[en:Andrew Tanenbaum] recently released the 3rd edition of Modern Operating Systems, and there is a brand new chapter about [en:Symbian OS]. Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum - Sexy, isn’t it? ;) I think that this is a reflection of the importance that Symbian OS has at present. This also means that more people will probably learn about Symbian OS as part of their university courses. Thanks for the interest Andy. I’ll buy it (or borrow from our library) very soon ;-) .

Hans Boehm has given a very interesting lecture on “Getting C++ Threads Right” at Google last month. The lecture is available in video format from here ABSTRACT The advent of multicore processors has generated profound debate on the merits of writing parallel programs with threads and locks. Nonetheless, for many application domains, this remains the standard paradigm for writing parallel programs, and at the moment, there is no apparent universal replacement. And it is the focus of this talk. Somewhat surprisingly, there are a number of often subtle, but generally fixable, industry-wide problems with current approaches to threads programming. We’ll focus on probably the most widely used environments, consisting of C or C++ with a standard threads library. Problems span the spectrum from system libraries through language implementations through supporting hardware. They get in the way both in that they often make it difficult to write 100% reliable multi-threaded software, and in that they confuse even the basics of the programming model, thus making it hard to teach. A surprising number of “experts” do not understand the basic rules. Arguably, these problems really need to be addressed to even allow a meaningful comparison to other parallel programming approaches. Since solutions to these problems generally require a coordinated industry effort, we helped to persuade the C++ standards committee to address them by pursuing a coherent approach to threads in the next C++ standard. The talk will outline some of the proposed solutions, and give an update on this effort. Speaker: Hans Boehm Hans Boehm is a member of the advanced architecture group at HP Labs. He has worked on many aspects of programming language design and implementation, including garbage collection and concurrency, and he was HP’s representative to the effort to redesign Java’s memory model. He is a past Chair of ACM SIGPLAN, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. The slides for the lecture are available from: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/misc_slides/c++threads.pdf. ...

Figure 1: Comprehensible, and therefore wrong, software process. Figure 2: More complicated, and therefore better, software process. Figure 3: Simplified Software Process (SSP) model. Pretty dumb. Incredibly popular.

… or, at least, I do! ;)

It’s incredible. She was here around with us, working with us. Managing the career of people. Of Software Engineer like me. English: controlled, polite but sociable and engaged and enthusiast in her job. Vomiting. Strong Vomiting. Anyone assumed was just a Virus of the Flue a little bit stronger than usual. My Engineering Manager’s email of yesterday: What Suzanne thought was the sickness and vomiting bug actually turned out to be a small brain haemorrhage when she went to A&E last Wednesday night. Martin, Suzanne’s husband, called on Thursday to let me know what was happening and indicated at that time that Suzanne would require an operation. On talking to him yesterday it transpired that Suzanne has had a subsequent haemorrhage on Sunday night…. ...