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yasnippet - Google Code

Giovanni Giorgi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:54:08 +0000

YASnippet is a template system for emacs. It allows you to type a abbrevation and automatically expand the abbreviation into function templates. Bundled language templates includes: C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, LaTeX, HTML, CSS and more. Yasnippet system is inspired from TextMate’s template system. You can use a tool to import any TextMate template you [...]

Web2Py: a python web framework we like

Giovanni Giorgi — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:06:40 +0000

At Gioorgi.com we have used plenty of web frameworks. Giovanni Giorgi has experiensed Seaside, a lot of PHP frameworks, Java Struts, RubyOnRails, and Python Django. We have started to look for Web2Py, a compact, easy to learn python web framework. From the most notable feature, it runs also on Google App Engine. Written by an Italian University professor for [...]

Jython 2.5rc4 has been released

Giovanni Giorgi — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:27:26 +0000

Released on June 8, 2009 Jython 2.5RC4 is out! We have followed Jython in the past months, and it seems promising looking at the jython newsletter.

Le Squillo, mister B e l’ombra della defenestrazione

Giovanni Giorgi — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:00:48 +0000

Non siamo mai stati dei simpatizzanti di Mr Berlusconi Silvio, sulle pagine di Gioorgi. Non ci è mai piaciuta la sua politica, nessuna sua proposta o tentazione anti-legale, anche se ogni tanto il suo humor da barzellettiere ci ha fatto ridere. La vita personale del signor B. non è per noi significativa: sono i fatti politici [...]

About Gioorgi.com: vote by your own!

Giovanni Giorgi — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:09:43 +0000

C– for cross compiler

Giovanni Giorgi — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:09:03 +0000

In late 1994, when I need to write a programming language it was a pain. You must start with flex, lex and so on, and the way will be very long. Then I found GCC was able to compile in a pseudo-machine language, already optimized. Then a set of backend was able to emit mc68000, 80×86, [...]

Geocities will die

Giovanni Giorgi — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:21:55 +0000

Bupmed from ArchiveTeam, we have a shocked news: Geocities was a once very popular web hosting service founded in 1994 and purchased by Yahoo in 1999. On April 2009, Yahoo announced they would be closing Geocities “later this year”. Apparently, Yahoo will offer a means to export user data sometime this summer. The news is also reported [...]

The best netbook-friendly Linux distros

Giovanni Giorgi — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:05:58 +0000

Hands-on We loved the Xandros based OS the Asus put on the original Eee PC for its simplicity and direct access to applications. Likewise Acer’s version of Linpus, installed on the Linux versions of its Aspire One netbook. For 90 per cent of the tasks anyone’s likely to perform on a netbook, they’re spot on [...]

Evolving concurrency, like memory management did

Giovanni Giorgi — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:07:52 +0000

As processors become faster and multiprocessor systems become cheaper, the need to take advantage of multithreading in order to achieve full hardware resource utilization only increases the importance of being able to incorporate concurrency in a wide variety of application categories. In this article we are evaluting a new approach to the concurrency. In the last five [...]

WinRun4J

Giovanni Giorgi — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:40:03 +0000

WinRun4j is a java launcher for windows. It is an alternative to javaw.exe and provides the following benefits: * Uses an INI file for specifying classpath, main class, vm args, program args. * Custom executable name that appears in task manager. * Additional JVM args for more flexible memory use. * Built-in icon replacer for custom icon. * Pre-JVM splash [...]

WolframAlpha A new type of search engine

Giovanni Giorgi — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:01:10 +0000

Hi World. I didn’t lost a bit of grip on edge news, altrought now I am married! In the first days of May we read about a new serach engine, called WolframAlpha. The idea behind WolframAlpha are interesting, so we will take a close look to it. Slashdot is following the engine very tightly (“Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera”, published [...]

ack — better than grep, a power search tool for programmers

Giovanni Giorgi — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:38:37 +0000

ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code. ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl’s regular expressions. via ack — better than grep, a power search tool for programmers.

Una sola osservazioni sul caso Noemi-Berlusconi

Giovanni Giorgi — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:27:41 +0000

Leggo dal “Corriere della Sera” del 28 maggio 2009 ad opera di Beppe Severgnini: [...] Ovvietà numero tre. Le abitudini e le frequentazioni di Silvio B. riguardano solo Veronica L. (che peraltro s’è già espressa con vigore sul tema)? Be’, fino a un certo punto. Il Presidente del Consiglio guida una coalizione di governo che organizza il [...]

Terminated: Il declino di Schwarzenegger

Giovanni Giorgi — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:11:49 +0000

Col voto di martedì i cittadini della West Coast hanno respinto ad ampia maggioranza gli interventi fiscali (un’addizionale dell’1% sull’imposta di consumo, un aumento della tassa di circolazione e un incremento dello 0,25% dell’Irpef californiana) coi quali il governatore e il Parlamento dello Stato avevano deciso di colmare un deficit di bilancio di ben 21 [...]

Foto delle nozze

Giovanni Giorgi — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:38:40 +0000

Ciao, ecco un piccolissimo assaggio delle foto del matrimonio: e circa il viaggio di nozze… Esplora Bora Bora Esplora Ticheau