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The Subalpine Gallery is one of the commercial malls of the city of Turin. Designed by Pietro Carrera in 1873 opened 30th September 1874. It owes its name to the Industrial Bank Subalpina who assumed the burden of the building. The gallery, located between Piazza Castello and Piazza Carlo Alberto, is fifty meters long, fourteen [...]

There is a nice area in Duesseldorf called Medienhafen. Here, you can find some originally shaped building designed by the architect Frank Gehry (but not the ones in the picture, I think) and the night view is beautifully illuminated by lights and reflexes on the Rhein river.

I wrote in a previous article how easy it is to translate Java object to/from XML, without adding exotic library dependencies to your project; recently I’ve going through the code of one of my colleague and I discovered that the 3 line necessary to marshal and un-marshal the XML can be shortened to a single [...]

Uerige is the Düsseldorf typical Alt beer and the name of the restaurant “Zum Uerige” in the Old Town.

If you are an objective MacBook user you may think that those laptops tend to overheat. In case, you may give FanControl a try. If you are an Apple Fan, then it’s just correct that your keyboard is on fire.

It has been a long time… I’ve have been busy being badly sick and trying to recover. I’m better now, but I can’t say I’m very good. Since a couple of weeks I’m back to work and I’m trying to catch up. In the meantime I’ve been thinking a lot about life, universe and everything, [...]

Creating a statically linked version of a unix software saves you in all the circumstances where you can’t install the software as root, when you don’t have development tools on the target machine, when you cannot find a prepackaged version for the specific server, when the libraries available on a server are conflicting with the [...]

I recently started to use a feature in Eclipse 3.6.1 that I didn’t notice before: the “Save Actions”. Basically you can configure some actions that will be done automatically when you save a Java source. Some of them are really useful, like Organizing the imports, adding ‘final’ to private member instances, etc. Here the screen-shot [...]

Just discovered an interesting bug in Java interpreter and compiler, that makes them hang when converting the value 2.2250738585072012e-308. Nice to know. The bug has been reported to Oracle, but I supposed they will include this in their collection of bugs and sell it as “Oracle Database 12g” product. :-)

There are a certain number of naming conventions used for unit tests. At beginning, with JUnit 3, to define a test it was mandatory that the class name was named like MyClassTest, be extending from TestCase and all the test method names were starting with ‘test’ as in ‘testMyMethod()’. I think that this is a [...]