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Sometimes it is charming come to home, to my old home near Venice. Walking watching the sea and the beach.

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1. It runs, it works (not like PHP, in PHP everythink you do it’s OK and sometimes you don’t know why it runs)
2. It’s not frustating. When something go wrong, you know why or if you don’t know why you can find a solution in a reasonable time.
3. Debbuger is easy (very easy). Forget absurd Java println/F8 and a moutain of Valgrind and GDB output.
4. Design pattern at his best. Pure MVC that works, if you break this it’s your fault not RoR fault. Respect MVC and MVC respect you.
5. IDEs and editors. Netbeans/Eclipse/Textmate integration.
6. Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes. Changes? Not twisting but sincere shifting of code. Simple deployment.
7. Plugins and Gems. One row of command line and thousands of features.
8. I love conventions. I like standards. Ruby/Rails says “You call it so and I do the job for you”
9. Great community.
10. On the edge philosophy. I like it. Always.
11. Ruby is fucking FUNNY. In my all life a use a lot of langs an this one is the best, sometimes you may say: “mother NOOO; this method or this piece of source is very boring to code”, in Ruby is funny and pretty. You can challenge yourself write it in the DRY way you can do it.
12. Regexp. After a long time finally you learn regular expression. String class relatively poor but you can do all the stuff learn regexp. You don’t know, you think that regexp are abstruse and ugly so you pass 1 day curse them… in the evening you ask yourself how is it possible to live without regexp.
13. Cool and elegant Ruby syntax. Blocks, in line instruction, if after…
14. Console and IRB. Hyper-fast way to test your code.
15. No XML configuration. XML is boring and pedant for this kind of stuff.
16. Planning and these kind of stuff are overrated in modern development. Be Agile. Talk, load, change, develop, fix, debug and DO. In Ruby/Rails
17. Fast and ready development environment. Script directory is one of your best friends.
18. All great Rails stuff: Active Record, Test::Unit, Filters.
19. All great Ruby stuff: open source, OOP, multiplatform, very high level language, garbage collector, REST.

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A good article by Peter Velichkov compare most used Javascript framework/tools.

Dojo vs JQuery vs MooTools vs Prototype Performance Comparison

Who lost? Pachyderm Prototype

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I’m born reading science fiction, masterpieces of this genre are not a lot. One of them is Forever War of Joe Haldeman. Now  was announced that Ridley Scott will direct a movies based on this novel. The good and old Ridley after the wonderful 70’s (Blade Runner and Alien in primis) tries to say something, and I hope, maybe better I know, it will be very very good.

books, movie books, life, movies, sf

When I was young I entertain myself mixing sample and create some music.Here you can find the tracklist of my first and only cd. Maybe I was too young: between 14 and 17. Title is 426C7565 426974 and it is the ASCII code for “blue bit”. If you want to listen me this is my page on last.fm.

http://www.last.fm/music/Vlain

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Sometimes I like to write something: short story and poems draft waiting for the romance of my life. I found very stunning a form of poems called haiku. One of mine was published on a italian science fiction collection. Here are some of my haiku.

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Ping All is graphical multi ping utility that allows you to ping a subnet. Sometimes I need a little utility like this and I found (in MS environment) difficult to find a free software. So I decide to create one in C#. It’s very simple but you can find useful in some circumstance.

Download Ping All Utility

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Java programming style guidelines. How coding in Java, syntax and conventions. These are my suggestions and not axioms.

Javs Style Presentation (PDF)

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