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Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features: Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure Error and warning notification for your code Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions Cross-platform support Free and open source. (Source available soon) Aptana seems to be a very powerfull IDE for Javascript (finally!!!). The biggest features is the Integrated documentation, merged with a “suggestions-system” that indicate standard and non standard tags and attributes (indicating the browser compatibility with icons). A screenshot follows: ...

Imagine an Integrated Desktop Search Engine that re-index every work you write, every file you create, every “content”… as you do that things… in a very discreet way. Every developer will thinks it’s a very difficult “mission”, it isn’t? ;) Ok, but take a look here: The GNU/Linux Semantic Storage System (GLS³) is a solution designed to facilitate the management and retrieval of your data. It is a solution that distances you from thinking about Where you store your data to What your data is. With GLS³, you can organize and retrieve your data based on their semantics, based on What they mean to you, and not based on their hierarchical location. GLS³ is an open source semantic storage solution for GNU/Linux that indexes your data, extracts from it metadata and relevant information, allows you to organize it using queries and tags, an API to allow Developers to integrate searching and organization capabilities in their application, an extensible plugin-based Type System, shared schemas between applications through an API, a pseudo file system for backward compatibility, a web interface, As-You-Type searching and more. I suggest also to take a look to the published demo-videos: these are very interesting and… pregnant! ...

8O Microsoft becomes a part of the project ODF-converter: it’s hosted on Sourceforge (M$ on Sourceforge ?!?!?!? What’s next time? Bush that fight on a real battle-field??!?!? 8O ). If ODF does not give you any “trigger”, read here. Anyway, the most important thing to know is the interest of M$ to release various plugins to enjoy conversion between her proprietary-formats and Open Documents of OASIS. Source, Ziobudda and Arabian Phoenix dot com.

Remember, Unix is a “kind” of Operating System, UNIX is a Registered Trademark: a little bit different :D Unix History Graph Source, Ziobudda.

Si, oggi è giornata di segnalazioni (avevo dei tab aperti da quasi una settimana ormai, e ho deciso di spendere 10 minuti per pubblicarli tutti). Google Browser Sync é una extension con il nome sbagliato: permette di sincronizzare tutti i vostri Firefox memorizzando sui server di Google i vostri: Bookmarks Cache History Tabs/Session e di tenerli costantemente aggiornati. In questo modo, una volta installata l’extension su di un Firefox, basta il vostro account Google (e la chiave scelta per criptare i Dati su Google) per poter avere tutto sempre sincronizzato. Una idea semplice e fantastica (per la verità non nuova… ma nessuno disponeva dello spazio disco di cui dispone Google), che ha un solo difetto: IL NOME!!! ...

I Google Labs si sono decisi: hanno rilasciato SketchUp e Google Earth per MacOSX. Il primo era sin ora disponibile solo in versione “PRO” mentre il secondo non era Universal Binary. C’è inoltre da evidenziare che GEarth é ora disponibile nativamente anche per Linux: qui la situazione, sin ora, era peggiore, con una versione di prova rilasciata per girare in Wine (tristissimo :P ). Sembra quindi che Google abbia mantenuto tutte le promesse, volendo coprire almeno tutta la “TRIADE” dei sistemi più diffusi. ...

Usefull for geek-web-developer. CSS Tweak will take your CSS and optimize it so that file sizes and download times are reduced. The tool is different from other optimizers as it gives you the option to stop it from altering your CSS code layout. Source, Downloadblog.

The most advanced Open Source RDBMS… becomes even more advanced!!! ;) New Advanced Database Features Roles: PostgreSQL now supports database roles, which simplify the management of large numbers of users with complex overlapping database rights. IN/OUT Parameters: PostgreSQL functions now support IN, OUT and INOUT parameters, which substantially improves support of complex business logic for J2EE and .NET applications. Two-Phase Commit (2PC): long in demand for WAN applications and heterogeneous data centers using PostgreSQL, this feature allows ACID-compliant transactions across widely separated servers. Performance Enhancements Improved Multiprocessor (SMP) Performance: the buffer manager for 8.1 has been enhanced to scale almost linearly with the number of processors, leading to significant performance gains on 8-way, 16-way, dual-core, and multi-core CPU servers. Bitmap Scan: indexes will be dynamically converted to bitmaps in memory when appropriate, giving up to twenty times faster index performance on complex queries against very large tables. This also helps simplify database management by greatly reducing the need for multi-column indexes. Table Partitioning: the query planner is now able to avoid scanning whole sections of a large table using a technique known as Constraint Exclusion. Similar to the Table Partitioning found in other database management systems, this feature improves both performance and data management for multi-gigabyte tables. Shared Row Locking: PostgreSQL’s “better than row-level locking” now supports even higher levels of concurrency through the addition of shared row locks for foreign keys. Shared locks will improve insert and update performance on many high-volume OLTP applications. … ...

Update for the new “D"heme of this/my homepage/blog. New :hover style for the h3 header of sliding div Added the class img.wp-smiley for smiles in posts I have enlarged the left column and restricted the center column Added a nice background for the blockquote element What it lacks? Primary, a admin menu using the style of the “Credits toggle” on the bottom (had you seen it, don’t you? ;) )

After the coronation as the best (imho ;) ) file-system for *nix systems, BitUbique post an howto defragment an XFS partition. Simplest and fastest way? sudo xfs_fsr -v /dev/hda1