Sorpresa: ho pubblicato un libro! In realtà sono l'editore, poiché l'autore è mio padre. Si tratta di una guida sui sentieri del gruppo Preti-Duranno (situato sul confine Friuli-Veneto), che è anche una raccolta di fotografie.
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It seems the Turbo compilers are back, and there's even a free version of them. When I read the announcement, and saw the photos of the boxes so similar to the ones of the beginning of the 90s, I was about to drop a tear on the keyboard for the comeback of the products that inspired my first efforts at coding, as well as those of almost all my generation.
It's maybe too late for Turbos to gain momentum again, but they could appeal to younger coders especially in the free Explorer version (the Professional is not that expensive, anyway). I would find Turbo C# useful for the applications I write, but unfortunately it's Windows-only, as Borland decided to drop the Linux versions of their compilers and to stay on the Windows side.
When the first generation of Turbos came out, Borland was innovative, while now it seems it's following the steps of others (i.e. Microsoft, which also features free IDEs) with some delay. Making their products available to non-Windows users as well would probably mean innovation again, let's see if the new Borland has the guts to walk that way...
Yesterday evenin' I was in Villa Manin, UD, to attend at Bruce Springsteen's concert. It was my first occasion to see the Boss, which is one of my favourite songwriters ever: if I were to go to a distant planet alone and could only bring one CD, then it would be one of Bruce's.
Springsteen came to Villa Manin with the Seeger Sessions Band, a fabulous group of musicians who played in his latest studio work. There was some fear of rain among the attending people, since the sky looked quite bad, but luckily then it cleared and nothing else was to obstacle the concert. There were about 11 thousand people in the magnificent garden of the Villa.
When the Boss appeared I thought I was going to faint. He was surrounded by 17 musicians on a stage which looked like an old western theatre. Bruce was in outstanding shape and mood, and he played all the songs from the latest album, rearranging some of them in a spectacular way also thanks to his musicians. Amidst these new works, the Boss also played some songs from his huge repertoire, including one from Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ album (Growing Up)!!! He also played Johnny 99 (from Nebraska), The River and My City of Ruins (from The Rising). Every song was rearranged in a special acoustic way, for instance violins were used in The River. In the middle of the gig, Bruce also found the time to drink a glass of local grappa.
After 2 hours and 1/2 of uninterrupted concert, Bruce and the musicians said goodbye to everybody, and immediately the staff began to dismantle the stage. We stayed there some minutes, hoping that Bruce would come back, this time with his old Fender instead of an acousting guitar, and sing Born in the USA. But this was not the evening for that: it was the Seeger Sessions' evening, and it was fantastic. 10++.
Rating: 4/5 (very good)
Now that the IT world is moving towards Unicode, there are usally two ways a computer programmer thinks about the role Unicode has in his life: the first is "I need to know nothing, the environment will do everything by itself," while the second is "hey man, it's just a character set, I already know everything I need". Well, there's also a third "I don't care and I will use US-ASCII forever" option, but I presume the reader of this review is somehow interested in Unicode.
