Fabrizio Giudici's Blog

Ok, you haven't read new posts here for some time now. I've been pretty busy: an important deadline first and later five consecutive days of holidays (!) chasing the Rhône river from the glacier to the mouth - my first...

I've been just notified that the Italian Ministry for the Environment has just introduced a 3D viewer of italian cartography. The main features are: "fly over the terrain; fluid motion between two points; path tracking; popping up 2D maps related...

Warning, this is an entirely untechnical entry. Read only if you'd like to waste five minutes (was: Sun should invest more in ... advertising and public relationship).

Rich Sharples is blogging about the fact that IcedTea passed the TCK (via Heiko W. Rupp); Fedora 9 is the first Linux distribution to carry a completely free and unencumbered version of Java It's an important milestone of the open...

I've been using generics for a few years, and I'm happy with them. I'm aware of the issues related to their design, and I agree that they could have been made a bit better (but I understand the trade-offs made...

In Bern Italy has just miserably lost the match with Netherlands at the European Football Championship - as usual, on the first official confrontation after it has won something important (such as the World Championship) the italian team enters the..

Ibon Urrutia, member of the NetBeans Dream Team, has just uploaded a new video on NetBeans.TV, showing off a product made by a corporate he's working for. It's TagsME, a development tool for producing JavaME applications by simplifying your work...

JUG Milano has organized a new initiative called JavaFX Circle: it's about studying and trying JavaFX "live". The thing is basically a series of weekly meetings, starting on next Wednesday. In two hours all the attendees, organized in groups, will...

JPA is a very good tool for simplifying the task of performing queries and updates to a relational database while keeping the Java code as much object oriented as possibile; but one of the tasks that are not covered is the standard maintenance of the

I usually don't post just links to others' posts, but the thing I supposed to publish tonight is not ready yet - and I think this new support for JavaScript in NetBeans 6.1 is worth of attention: http://www.netbeans.tv/screencasts/Demo-of-New-JavaScr