Projects

While PostgreSQL’s adoption rate continues to accelerate, some folks wonder why that rate isn’t even steeper given its impressive array of features. One can speculate that many of the reasons for not considering its adoption tend to be based on either outdated or misinformed sources. In an effort to dispel some of the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) surrounding this impressive product, instead, I’ll put forth several of the most commonplace reasons companies have for not investigating PostgreSQL further. ...

Salve. Era da parecchio tempo che mi ripromettevo di farlo: finalmente adesso ho trovato il tempo per cominciare il mio studio del framework Cocoa. Ma prima, una citazione da Wikipedia: Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. In the United States, ‘cocoa’ often refers to cocoa powder, the dry powder made by grinding cocoa seeds and removing the cocoa butter from the dark, bitter cocoa solids. By itself it has an extremely bitter flavor. ...

School Announcement This school brings together scientists and engineers interested in recent developments of magnetism. Emphasis is placed on micro-electromechanical systems and spintronic applications. > Objectives The objective of the school is to propose a synergic junction between the characteristic expertise of the engineering and the knowledge of the basic science. The main effect should be a cross-cultural fertilization favoring an interdisciplinary enrichment for the attendants and their research perspectives. The program of the school will cover a wide area in the domain of the science and technology of magnetic nanostructures and microsystems. The lectures are organized in four main topics: Spintronics; Magmas (magnetic MEMS and NEMS for micromachines, microrobotics and microsystem technology); Magnetic recording; Magnetic Nanoscience. The school was ideated from the Magnetism Research Group - University of Messina (Italy) and will start in Villa San Giovanni - Scilla, Calabria, Italy 2 - 15 July 2006. ...

Wow: seems to be that every web-developer doesn’t do anything except Ajax! Today, walking trough various blog I had found these interesting thing written in (and for) Ajax: * [<strong>Lightbox JS</strong>](http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/) - a <em>simple</em>, <em>unobtrusive script </em>used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on<strong><em> all modern browsers</em></strong>. Simple and very Beautiful way to show photos in a web page (it's ideal to be used in a Web-Based-Photo-Gallery). * [<strong>Tooltip.js</strong>](http://tooltip.crtx.org/) - NEXT GENERATION in Tooltips; using the Web 2.0 approach of doing a simple thing, and doing it well. It's based on [script.aculo.us](http://www.detronizator.org/home/index.php?s=script.aculo.us) (and then [prototype.js](http://www.detronizator.org/home/index.php?s=prototype.js)) and... it's a very-cool way to put tooltip into a web page. * [REXV - Regular EXpression eValuator](http://www.rexv.org/) - [Regular Expression](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regexp) evaluator for three different regular expression systems. It's written in Ajax and it's very very usefull for regexp-addicted developer. It understand: <em>PHP PCRE</em>, <em>PHP Posix</em>, <em>Javascript regexp</em>.

Download and watch all the best internet TV shows and videos in one powerful application. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide. Stop squinting at tedious web videos– sit back and watch big, high resolution videos one after another. It’s so easy to use that you’ll be watching interesting videos in moments. It’s name is Democracy TV (DTV). It’s an Internet TV Platform TOTALLY Opensource. Now, a Windows version is also available (before this, DTV was only for MacOSX). ...

Ubunto Dapper Drake is now UVF: UVF - The Upstream Version Freeze The Upstream Version Freeze is the point in the development cycle when Ubuntu stops accepting new upstream versions of software or packages. This allows the Ubuntu developers time to stabilize the current software in Ubuntu and helps avoid introducing new bugs. You can find out a bit more about this milestone at UpstreamVersionFreeze. More informations and complete improvement list available on the official wiki. ...

Davyd Madeley has released a “coming soon features list” of Gnome 2.14. Really interesting new features for Gnome users: Speed improvement in Memory Allocation System (Gnome use a dedicated subsystem for this stuff), using a new mem-allocator called GSlice (follow a benchmark), and in Font Rendering (Gnome Terminal will be fastest of XTerm 8O ) some Administrative tools improvement to the integrated search system (expecially for Beagle-Enabled linux-box) Metacity improvement (it will use OpenGL… but I don’t know if this means the integration with Xgl/Compiz) ...

meebo is a multi-IM client (in beta version right now) that is Web 2.0 enabled: a really cool use of Ajax! I tried it and seems to be functional and really usable (it’s in beta, don’t forget). Probably a very powerfull alternative for user without a Laptop or a Network-enabled palm. The most interesting features? it use 1024 bit encryption RSA for Ajax communications! Source, Consequentia Mirabilis.

I was one of the first Gentoo-on-iBook-7450 installer: I have an idea of the obstacles that Apple make (voluntarily?) to stop the “waste” of our hardware. The installation of Gentoo on Mactel is only a “time issue”: EFI was, for me, the biggest problem (elilo rulez!). But I don’t know the internal hardware of that new machine. Anyway, Good Work guys. Source, Melablog.

It’s now available in Universal Binary. List of features is here. I’m not a Camino user: I’m a Firefox-Extension’s addicted web-developer! But a Browser Gecko-Based with the powerful and beauty of MacOSX is a really interesting alternative for non-dev users… Source, Melablog.