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It’s been a wonderful event, well organized and with a good mood among all the partecipants. I enjoyed the presentation and gave a humble talk on capistrano.
Here are the slides: RailsToItaly Presentation
Update: here are the Capistrano examples I showed at the end of the talk. A notice to the downloader: they are a port to [...]

DaveNet : Programmers
From Dave Winer and old piece on programmers: Programmers have a very precise understanding of truth. You can’t lie to a compiler. Try it sometime. Garbage in, garbage out. Booleans, the ones and zeros, trues and falses, make up the world programmers live
(tags: davenet programmers)

Programming Erlang
A new book from the pragmatic programmers
(tags: erlang pragprog)

Untitled
… there are actually two alphabets in English—an uppercase alphabet and a lowercase alphabet. There are only 26 letters in the language, yet there are 45 symbols for these letters. According to Mr. Thompson, this is an illogical and unnecessary state
(tags: typography design)

SpendMatters: Vista, Office and Outlook 2007 are a Nightmare

Royal Pingdom » What the Web’s most popular sites are running on
An analysis of what some of the most popular web sites use for thier backend (with few suggestions as well)
(tags: web technology server)

OpenID makes web identities real and appealing (Loud Thinking)
DHH take on openid with some demo code
(tags: rubyonrails openid for_trm)

Personal Identity Provider (PIP)
The [...]

Seems someone realized transgenic grapes, which can reault in toxic wines. While the article (as Nova Spivack said) is from an anti-genetic-engineering perspective, this is scary reading if you like (as I am) drinking a glass of good wine while eating, specially since they say that field tests have been done also in Italy.

But [...]

Quest : Products : Quest® Code Tester for Oracle : Overview
A new automated testing tool for oracle PL/SQL
(tags: oracle testing)

Seth’s Blog: Really Bad Powerpoint
just re-discovered… Seth Godins suggestions for good presentations
(tags: powerpoint presentations sethgodin)

SMARTReporter 2.2.1 – Mac OS X – VersionTracker
A tool to report the status of your hard disk (uses the S.M.A.R.T. support from the bios)
(tags: osx hardware)

Minding the Planet: Web 3.0 Roundup: Radar Networks, Powerset, Metaweb and Others…
The roadmap to web3 by Nova Spivack with some (many?) hints to what his stealth startup is doing.
(tags: novaspivack radarnetwork web3.0)

Where Agile meets Planning | confused of calcutta
… these techniques are designed to make the software meet the user’s expectations in terms of function [...]