upgrade day

I’ve right now upgraded wordpress to the 2.2 version, I don’t see any big difference… But well… I have the latest version. Uhm… Looks like there’s an auto save feature, like with gmail, nice!

More important will be the upgrade of my N95, I have a 10.0.018 firmware and I am getting a 11.0.026… It’s downloading 110 Mb, sounds like it’s not an update but a new operating system! A nice thing is that I am doing all the process inside parallels

A not nice thing is that parallels just crashed while I was upgrading the firmware.. CRAP!!! Don’t do it!!!

Fiu… Now I am reinstalling, looks like it’s still able to find the phone… Phone recovery in progress…

Done!

It Looks a bit faster, I hope that the GPS will be decent now!

talk @ essap

Back to speech! I am very happy about this, my last one was at Java Conference Last year and it’s really time to go present something.

I’ll talk about the Importance to be Driven at the European School of Agile Praticse, in Varese.

C#

C# is not so bad. It’s 7 weeks now that I am working with this language and I quite enjoy it.

The tool is terrible slash horrible, we are using resharper that helps a bit but it’s not comparable to any java IDE that I know. Just the UI designer is nice and pretty easy to use, Windows Forms are for sure better than Swing, that was kind of easy.

Talking about the syntax I really like the using syntax:

writing something like:

using(Session s = manager.GetSession())

{

DoSomething();

}

is equivalent to the java

Session s;
try {

s = manager.GetSession();

doSomething();

} finally { s.dispose();}
To put an object in the using () this object must implement IDisposable, and then implement the Dispose Method. Isn’t nice?

Then also all the event and delegate stuff, too lazy to explain, try to have a look here or search with Google!
Transaction to C# was kind of easy, in 2 weeks I was up to speed. I am looking forward to the next C#, it looks just amazing. Java where are you?

N95

I have an N95.
Finally I went for that phone, on a contract with Vodafone.
So…

Some Pro:

- Ear plug with a “normal” jack
- USB: there’s a “normal” port
- Alarm: you can define recurrent alarms
- Lighter and generally nicer than my old 6630
- Radio works

Some Con:

- Sometimes looks terribly slow
- Don’t buy this phone for the GPS, it’s terribly slow
- The horizontal screen is cool but then? How to use it without a touch pen?
- I appreciate that they added the “special” menu button, in order to provide a fancy menu and not the ugly usual Symbian interface but: 1st it’s terribly slow, 2nd I accidentally press it too many times.

Conclusions:

I am waiting for the iPhone, can only be better. In the meanwhile I hope that with a firmware update maybe something will go better…
The pros are just something that simply MUST be in a medium range phone!