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Andrea on August 17th, 2010

This is one of the most amazing Pure CSS creations I have seen so far. Although, as I read from Steve Dennis’ blog, it has been created by hand in a painful trial and error process, it really gives an idea of what cascading style sheets are becoming and the actual value added they could deliver [...]

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Andrea on August 2nd, 2010

It’s few years old, but still effective overview of Software as a Service (or SaaS) provided by www.infoworld.com

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Andrea on August 1st, 2010

There is no better place to start understanding the basic terminology than the W3C’s Web Services Glossary. Here you will find the official definition along with the acknowledgement that many things can be called as such. A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an [...]

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Andrea on March 23rd, 2010

On Friday I will participate to the 1st summit on Cloud Computing and Virtualization strategies organised by Business International at the Enterprise Hotel in Milan. It’s going to be a bunch of CIOs giving talks all day long on actual business cases, I hope it’s not going to be just a sales pitching exercise…

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Andrea on March 11th, 2010

The Italian government has signed a deal with Google to put the contents of two national libraries on the internet. Up to one million antiquarian books – including works by Dante, Machiavelli and Galileo – will be scanned and made available free on Google Books. Read the article on news.bbc.co.uk

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