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Bellissimo titolo e bellissima iniziativa. Venerdì 22 Giugno 2007, presso l’Aula Magna della Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, si apre Condividi la Conoscenza 3, terzo appuntamento dopo i precedenti del 2003 e del 2004. L’obiettivo è quello di rilevare le problematicità e di proporre un insieme di indicazioni: organizzative, legislative, normative, tecniche… attorno al tema della conoscenza e della sue molteplici possibilità di condivisione nell’era del computer. Le solecitazioni, i nodi e le proposte che emergeranno saranno inviate/comunicate a tutto l’emiciclo politico/parlamentare e al Governo. ...

Bhe mi sembrava quasi ovvio che prima o poi qualcuno avrebbe un po protestato… rimango però dell’idea che come tutte le cose sta a noi usarle nel modo giusto: la patente a punti sta funzionando, i crediti, se uno riflettesse di più sulla propria carriera li troverebbe anche comodi; possiamo ovviamente discutere sul loro assegnamento a volte troppo casuale… ma si sa come tutte le cose ha bisogno di rodaggio. Pero per tornare sul titolo ironico , lascio a voi la visione di questo video. ...

Couple of days ago I’ve attended a nice db2 seminar on my campus. Mr Raul Chong was the speaker and did a two part presentation. The first part focused on some basic aspects of db2 and then passed over to it’s use in Web 2.0 applications. The first part was nice and I’ve picked up a couple of tips, I had issues with the Web 2.0 presentation. Basically it was a flash presentation of a pre-baked Ruby on Rails application that makes very little sense to me, if you do a demo of RoR you must do the full CRUD code generation and all. How can you figure out what is RoR good for out of a done site if you don’t even know what Ruby is (like 90% of the attendees)? ...

This is an older news but it’s still worth to mention. Google pushed an early release of Google Gears (beta), a plugin for your browser that will allow your web applications to work offline. It features an embedded SQLight database which is directly accessible via javascript. Dojo already integrated it’s offline storage to work with Gears. The Google Developer Podcast #3 featured Mike Tsao of the Google Gears team and one of the things mentioned was that there is no support for synchronization. As I just discovered the SDO specification something tells me that using SDO’s to sync up with the server side could be a possibility. As SDO’s are xml, the problem (of how you should create the SDO in order to sync up) I think with this approach is that you would need to manipulate a lot of XML in the browser which could be done either with a JS library, E4X (maybe) or another browser plugin. Do you think using SDO’s could be a viable approach? Classic web services are also a possibility. Any other ideas? Google Gears is available both as a IE ActiveX plugin or a Firefox extension. Developer site here.

Apple launched it’s developers conference at San Francisco. As always the keynote is a must. It starts as always with numbers about the conference. It then features a big personal thanks to Intel’s Paul Otellini and then goes off to developer stories. At first we see some great gaming stuff coming form EA and ID with some featured products by EA and a spectacular demo presented by Carmack. Next we have a presentation of some features in Leopard. The desktop has been revamped, we have a new 3d dock, stacks to keep stuff organized, consistent feel between the apps, a new menu bar and a prominent active window. Finder has some nice features like cover flow view, searching other macs on the network and even over the .Mac internet service, plus a revamped and programmable sidebar (there’s a background crash of WoW during the presentation). Next follows Quick View, an extensible preview system that allows you to quickly preview files without starting the full apps. Leopard will be 64-bit only, Cocoa is fully 64-bit now and it will run 32 and 64-bit apps side by side (but will it run on 32-bit hardware?). A really cool stuff analogue with .Net’s WPF is Core Animation and I think we’ll see great stuff coming really quickly. Boot Camp will be part of Leopard. A virtual desktop support they call Spaces with a great exposè like overview and it seems the possibility to mute other desktops (really sweet touch, attention to details is these guys specialty). The Web Clip instant widget maker got much better with some sweet browser integration and container highlighting, it was a tool that was demoed last year as well but it looks just much more polished. iChat also got some really nice upgrades as well like backdrops, documents sharing, effects etc. Time machine was presented already so I won’t go into details. ...

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If you are like me and enjoy Peggle you must definitely check out this awesome 1.7 million shot replay.

The guy that made that beautiful Jules Verne keyboard modification just brought us another mod but this time of a DELL 1907FP LCD screen in the same retro style.