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Finally. I can feed myself with all the cool details of the coolest project that human being has ever done. At least, in the [en:Computer Science] world. ;) ...

UPDATE Grazie alle “magie” (ehm, “magagne”? ;) ) di cui e’ capace C++, il miracolo e’ avvenuto (e, giuro, l’Elefante non ha subito alcun danno; anzi!). Fare il "Forward-Porting" di questa [en:API] e' come far entrare un [it:Elefante] in una [it:Fiat_Cinquecento|Cinquecento].

An impressive video from the Nokia Research Center: it shows a concept technology called “Morph” based on the usage of NanoTechnology for mobile devices (I feel that continue to call them “phones” is becoming very reductive). I’m sorry I can’t embed the video in this post: you can find it here.

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 ;)

[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 ;-) .

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.

Su consiglio del mio amico Nemo, prendo subito parte a questa simpatica quanto semplice iniziativa: i ragazzi di TheAppleLoungeregalano un iPhone ad estrazione. Le regole per partecipare… le trovate sul loro blog ;) Perche’ non partecipare? (… per non diminuire ancora ulteriormente le possibilita’ di vittoria, stupido!!! -_- )

Who knows me better, knows that I love the [en:WWW|Web]. So, I was seeking for info about the next generation of web. What I mean with “next generation”? I mean “what we can expect to see in the future”. And the best place, is to go were people (with good skills) go and start to discuss and brainstorm about this stuff. I found a very interesting pre-RFC: HTML 5 Working Draft. All the amazing and cool stuff are coming are there and is pointless for me to report them (just one: Client-Side Persistency!!! COOOOL!). But it’s interesting to see WHO is working on this. I mean, who is ALREADY thinking about what we will have in the “next World Wide Web”. ...

Taipei 101: The tallest building in the world since 2004 This is my 101 days. Writing a post on the 100 (50 * 2) was just too obvious ;) A lot of things are changed, and a lot are still changing. My life is stable like an Elephant on the point of a needle. The Big City has giving a lot to my “maturation process” as Software Engineer, but it’s not just gold because it sparkle, is it? But it worth it. We come out of University thinking “we deserve the best”, but we don’t. At least, we don’t yet. I’m figuring out, every day much more clearly, that University is just a gym, and whatever we did there, it is just not enough for the business world. ...

A good programming language is far more than a simple collection of features. My ideal is to provide a set of facilities that smoothly work together to support design and programming styles of a generality beyond my imagination. Here, I briefly outline rules of thumb (guidelines, principles) that are being applied in the design of [en:C++0x]. Then, I present the state of the standards process (we are aiming for C++09) and give examples of a few of the proposals such as concepts, generalized initialization, being considered in the ISO [en:C++] standards committee. Since there are far more proposals than could be presented in an hour, I’ll take questions. ...