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After ~10 months of work, I finally managed to push the ball forward enough to reach GhostDriver 1.0.0. I won’t lie: it does feel great. It always is to see so much effort mutate into an achievement, even it is such only for me. Before I go any further though, I owe a massive THANK-YOU to the people that through contribution and / or issue reporting have helped me to build a releasable 1.0.0. In particular to Jim Evans, an awesome guy and a bit of a mentor for me: you ROCK Jim, and I think that is true, literally! ...

Last week I started implementing W3C Sockets API into a Rhino based JavaScript runtime. It seems like plumbing API from one environment to another is one of the activity I do the most. And if you dare doing a joke about my Italian-ness and Super Mario… you will be pointed in the direction of the door. Here I want to share a couple of findings. Rhino is not bad at all Yes, I said it. And who has worked in the past with me, knows how my opinion are hard to change. But they do sometimes, fortunately. ...

I wrote about Hadoop some time ago (for “some reasons”) and I did EXACTLY what Ted Dziubas says here. But I’m not offended at all: he is 100% right! And I strongly suggest to take a look at this article: in the middle of his swearing there is, actually, some good stuff about “what is going on in the Web2.0 Yet Again Exploding Bubble!!!

Edit: Added a linkto the Google Group of the project of Mal about the sync-stuff. It’s name is PySync. Yesterday I went with a collegue (thank you Serage, particularly for the pictures ;) ) to this event that the Google’s London Office sort twice (or more?) a year. Google London Open Source Jam. I went for one main reason and other two minors (and… I didn’t know that the most important was another one ;)): The Topic To take a look to the Google Office in London (very very close to Victoria Station) Free Food (very nice pizza ;) ) (What’s the “main one” is up to you… :-D ). The Topic This time, our topic of interest is Mobile. Linux on phones JavaME vs JavaSE vs .NET CF vs Native Browser technologies: AJAX and Flash Building native apps that port to multiple architectures Open platforms (e.g. OpenMoko) Cross platform testing Making the most of mobile hardware (camera, voice, bluetooth, GPS, etc) Phone bling ...

Dopo tanto tempo, un post in Italiano. Sono qui solo per segnalarvi che la mia Tesi su “Asterisk e JPound” (per qualche oscuro motivo a me ignoto ;) ) e’ stata pubblicata su Java Italian Portal tra i Tutorial (???). Spero che qualcuno possa trovarla utile a fini didattici, dato che non ho potuto continuare il suo sviluppo.

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No, It’s not a post on politics or demagogy: it’s about foolishness!!! HD-DVD, one of the 2 “standards” of the future of Home-Movie (and Digital Video Storage in general), seems to be cracked… already. An anonymous cracker, called muslix64, have published a post on Doom9 about a very little Java program that is capable of Rip AACS-Encrypted video from an HD-DVD. More info on a page of Wikipedia dedicated to this program, BackupHDDVD. Source, The Inquier IT. ...

On 16 Nov 2006 Google release the new version of GWT (Google Web Toolkit). As experts probably know, until this release GWT was not “develop-able” on MacOSX. But the music is changing… Edit Nov 22 2006: On the Official GWT Blog: After a couple weeks of fixing all the issues our developer community has so diligently reported in the issue tracker, we are happy to announce the official release of Google Web Toolkit 1.2 today. ...

2 Settimane fa sono stato contattato da Fullo (presumo di FulloBlog) per parlare del mio progetto di Tesi, JPound. L’intervista sarebbe stata pubblicata nella rubrica OSS…equi alla signora, su OSSBlog. Detto fatto. La cosa comica? La discuto DOMANI (2006-10-17) la Tesi!!! Fatemi un IBAL!

Log4E is an Eclipse Plugin which helps you to set up your logger easily in Java Projects. It assists you in several tasks: logger declaration, logger Insertions at certain method entries, substitution of System out’s, modification of already existing logger statements. Log4E has active support for Log4j, Commons Logging and JDK 1.4 Logging. By defining your own templates you might be able to adapt your own logger to the Plugin. A very usefull plugin for every Eclipse Java Developer, that knows the importance of Logging… expecially in huge projects.