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Here is what I will watch today while I eat my pasta :-)

Ok, this is the latest "cool" technology I'm watching, right now. And, of course, I've already created my own sample application: gflow.appstore.com , which at the moment is a simple guestbook application, but, who knows ;) ?

You start some of your days with your best intentions; you wake up early, wash yourself, shave, get a breakfast and are ready in thirty minutes to work, even if it is Sunday. Then, you go to the computer and wait for your online pairer to show up. You're early, so it is not a problem if he's not there; in the meantime, you browse some online newspaper. Your computer seems a little more laggy than usual. You check, and see that the lightweight browser named Firefox is eating 300 MB of your memory, and 90% of your CPU. "Ehi!" you think, "it must be that effect once I read about Firefox not being too much happy when you resume from suspend mode. No problem, I will kill him and restart." But your computer still behaves like someone poured glue on your keyboard during the night. You're wondering where your online pairer is; now he's late, but after all you agreed to meet at 6:30 AM; maybe he just slept a little more than he should, and will be online so...

I don't remember the first book I read on Extreme Programming, but I clearly remember two sensations: enthusiasm and confusion. Indeed, I felt there was something great in it, but I was unable to grasp many of the real practices they were talking about; it was like I was looking at them through a thick fog; user stories was one of those practices. Many years have passed from that day, five, maybe more; my understanding of user stories expanded from a shape in the fog to a paper card. However, as many things you learn on the Net, some parts of the card were very clear, while other were still difficult to discern: for example I was not sure how big the card should have been or how many details I should have put on it. Less confusion and a little more enthusiasm. Then my twin brother brought me this book, and told me "read it". And as I always do with everything he gives me to read, I put in on the shelf, and I forgot it. You may wonder why I do it; you're welcome: I won...

Dopo molte esitazioni, ho deciso di provare Google Web Toolkit. Sono rimasto colpito da quello che Google ha tirato fuori. Penso che tra un po' ci sarà dell'Ajax in PAFlow... :-)