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JavaScript Wars hits nodejs

October 7, 2011
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This week, the nodejs community had a big flame. All was started by this blog post, which  tried to slap down node.js server because of its mono-thread nature. And node.js fight back knocking down the attacker. Let’see how.

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Dart Sith move first

October 14, 2011
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So Dart Sith has just launched his first DeathStar, my young JavaScript fellow: a site devoted to the Dart language Because I am a very old Jedi (1974, before ever the first WtartWars trilogy showdown)  I had to rest a bit before talking about it, so the news is 4-days old I know. I...

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JavaScript War: Prologue

September 16, 2011
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Be strong young Jedi. This war will begin shortly. You can try to keep you jdk under your pillow, but the html5 will hit you in the middle of the night. And a knife in the dark will rise from shadow: JavaScript

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Functional Programming In Depth, part II:Python and Scala retrospection

August 29, 2011
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This is the second article on functional programming. In the first one we talked about scala and the type inference system it brings in the Java Way of Life. I played a bit with python functional howto, building a small game. Before starting I surfing for a bit of libraries and documentation.

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Functional Programming

July 18, 2011

Because of the success of my article on java closure, I have decided to write another article on functional programming. In the last year functional programming is waving back to us, for a lot of reason. Let’s summarize the facts: Functional programming is based on the core concept of pure function. The main advantages...

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CScharpizzati

May 1, 2011

Nei mesi passati ho avuto l’opportunità di lavorare come software architect per un progetto basato su .NET e C#. Da molti anni non bazzicavo in ambito Microsoft, e quindi è stata una utile palestra. Ho pensato di scrivere questo piccolo manuale per sviluppatori java con la ventura di dover diventare… C#-enabled.

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Being Functional F#

May 18, 2011

F# is a Microsoft research Language. F# is riding the functional revenge way of the last years. F# is a mixed approach, because some variables can be modified. It borrows a lot of things from Haskell and OCaml  (Wikipedia dixit). F# is not used like Erlang or Haskell but it could be installed with...

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