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A super funny video about a young and rebel Java developer grown in a Microsoft family. var params = { 'allowfullscreen': 'true', 'allowscriptaccess': 'always', 'wmode': 'transparent' }; var attributes = { 'id': 'video0', 'name': 'video0'}; var flashvars = { 'file' : 'http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2109153/Blog/JavaZoneTrailer.flv', 'width' : '400', 'height' : '280', 'controlbar' : 'bottom', 'dock' : 'false', 'icons' [...]

I've been working in Düsseldorf for some years and now I am leaving because I got job elsewhere. But before I want to share my experience and some tips that could be useful to people working (or planning to work) abroad, and in particular in this geographical area. About Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is a wonderful place, [...]

Some time ago, I've answered to a job interview question which was sounding more or less like: «suppose you have 20 minutes to talk to an audience of junior developers about what have been the lessons you learned from your software development experience, and resume that in three points, about what a good developer shall [...]

Found this nice thread on StackOverflow: What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? A fun read. I'm trying hard to keep myself to post some snippet; fortunately I've not enough reputation on StackOverflow to post answers :)

After the mactini, the macwheel: the generation of laptops with a single big button is here. Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard I think I keep the keyboard for now... :)

I've never been a great TV watcher when I was in Italy. Here in Germany I don't watch TV also because I don't understand German. But sometime I miss some Italian news shows, like Anno Zero. The public URLs are the followings: RAI 1 mms://212.162.68.163/prodtvr1 RAI 2 mms://212.162.68.163/prodtvr2 RAI 3 mms://212.162.68.163/prodtvr3 RaiSport+ mms://212.162.68.163/raisport+ Unfortunately the [...]

Last year our beloved politicians were discussing about a law that basically would make of all the Italian bloggers a people of undercover editors, making laws requiring the blogging activity and internet writing to be subject to state registration and taxation. Here's a fragment from an old article from Times Online: Recently, Italian lawmakers once [...]

Eight years ago... ...and today... True change. Hopefully :) Good luck Obama!

Did you know?     1 - x 3 = 1 3     1 - = 0.333... 3     0.333... x 3 = 0.999...     ...then...     0.999... = 1     Are you searching for the trick? Believe it or not, this demonstration is true. Maybe the old intel pentiums [...]

Colleague: I just got an email ... Title: "The blue wonder - and you can also f**k the girl next to the door" ... Content: some comments about the offer in subject .... ... The best thing about Vi is the safety of flying with autopilot, relaxing and without the necessity of worrying of that [...]