Wow! What a nice weekend! Techtalk Italia, the event organized by Lorenzo Viscanti, has been as success.
The place was amazing and I enjoyed seeing again some old friend and meeting a lot of nice and interesting people. Talking about the future of the Web in Italy around the swimming pool felt a bit like being in the sunny California!
I’m sure that something good will come out from this and from the next meetings, I feel that the things are moving in Italy and the people want to do big things! It’s time!

Reports and pictures: Gioxx post, Stefano Vitta pictures, Luca Conti, Giovanni Intini, Tommaso Sorchiotti, Sabine.

London weather is wet as usual, showers everywhere. I leaved Milan with a shirt and I had to wear my coat just out the plane.
Fortunately a weekend in Tuscany waits for me. Lorenzo did a great job by organizing a relaxing break with a couple of friends in a fantastic place near Florence. It will be much fun!

Annuncio con immenso piacere che sul numero di Giugno di Computer Programming potete trovare il primo dei miei tre articoli su Erlang. In questo numero ho trattato principalmente la parte sintattica del linguaggio, facendo qualche esempio e introducendo il lettore alla programmazione funzionale. Correte in edicola!

Translation for all the non-italian readers: in the June issue of Computer Programming, the leading italian programming magazine, you can find the first of three articles I wrote about Erlang. It’s a great introduction to the language, so if you have an italian friend who wants to know more about this language, tell him to buy the magazine!

Yesterday I’ve been at the PHPDay 2007 in Verona with my Nimboo friend Giovanni Intini, during the travel to Verona on the train, we played with Erlang, Ruby and PHP writing small programs to compute Pythagorean triplets and comparing performances.
I don’t want to tell you yet who’s the winner, you will find the results of our tests in Giovanni’s blog.

Update: the battle continues here.