Lagom – Learning Swedish?

No, even if I’ll live for more or less 6 months in Sweden I don’t think that I’ll learn the language, is quite interesting, a mixture of English and German, in my ignorant humble opinion, of course, but also a bit difficult .

By the way I found a very nice word to define something that needs a phrase in English (or in Italian).

The Lexin Swedish-English dictionary defines lagom as “enough, sufficient, adequate, just right.” Lagom is also widely translated as “in moderation,” “in balance,” “optimal,” “suitable,” and “average.” But whereas words like “sufficient” and “average” suggest some degree of abstinence, scarcity, or failure, lagom carries the connotation of perfection or appropriateness. The archetypical Swedish proverb “Lagom är bäst,” literally “Lagom is best,” is translated as “Enough is as good as a feast” in the Lexin dictionary. That same proverb is translated as “There is virtue in moderation” in Prismas Stora Engelska Ordbok (1995).

from Lagom – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Isn’t a perfect word to define how the application of a methodology (Agile/XP/Scrum) on a project should be?

Do It Yourself .Mac

I’m very lazy when I have to pay for a service that can be free. Synchronization for me is very important, I’m always on the run and unfortunately often I cannot use my Mac and I have to use another laptop.

For that reason I’m using the Google Browser Sync plug-in for Firefox for example, even if a bit scared about my privacy…

Backup is also important, a service like .Mac is very nice, but it costs. Searching for something complitely not related(*) I’ve found this page today: Do It Yourself .Mac – The Network People, Inc.

The wiki explains how to setup a linux server to act like the .Mac server… Looks very cool…
(*) If you write “Collection
result = (Collection ) query.execute();” you will have a warning message like “Type safety: The cast from Object to Collection
is actually checking against the erased type Collection”: what the hell does it means???
I think that I’ll ask a solution for this on the JugTorino ML about this…

Ok, thanks to Carlo for the fast reply, no other choice than to add a “@SuppressWarnings(“unchecked”)” that’s why I’m using an unchecked library… Kodo

Automation for the people: Improving code with Eclipse plugins

Nice page with the ultimate list with a complete list of code quality checks for Eclipse.
Automation for the people: Improving code with Eclipse plugins
Improving code with Eclipse plugins

[Credits to Uberto Barberini via XP-it ML]

is RoR good for the enterprise?

Thanks to Bertini Maurizio from the Italian Ruby ML I know that yes, maybe it’s good!

Blue Fountain Systems
Blue Fountain Systems are this years winner of the Supply Chain Management Category of the British Computer (BCS) Information Management Awards.

Open Source Ruby on Rails application scoops award.

Blue Fountain Systems beat off stiff competition from Marks & Spencer and the FOCUS DIY chain to win the award for their Blue Sequence solution which forms part of Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s own “sequence in time” production process.

The system, which is used by Futaba Industrial UK Ltd at their new factory in Derbyshire, has been written with open source technologies and uses the Ruby on Rails web framework as the web front end for the application to handle real time data from the Toyota production line, processing signals to manufacture and deliver the right part, to the right point, at the right time in the manufacturing process with the whole process taking less than 8 hours.