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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Academy Award-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith, who created the memorable music for scores of classic movies and television shows ranging from the "Star Trek" and "Planet of the Apes" series to "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and "Dr. Kildare," has died. He was 75.
I have to say that one of my favorite soundtrack is Basic Instinct, this was the first time I was listening to the music of Jerry...

Oracle has published a very interesting article showing the differences between ASP.NET and PHP. And can you guess what is the final conclusion ?

A new XML/RSS/Atom Search Engine ! link

I removed my phpscript to display image galleries and installed and configured the image drupal's module (see pictures link in Zones section).
It's a very cool module very easy to use. No more time to waste, just upload and that's all, it's published. The thumbnails are generated and the images are stored hierarchicaly with taxonomy terms.

Il fait vraiement chaud en ce moment, j'ai donc profité de l'après-midi pour aller piquer une tête à la piscine du coin. Ca se passait plutot bien jusqu'à l'arrivée d'un groupe de stagiaires plongée qui ont commencés à monopoliser deux couloirs. Moins de place pour nager, les longueurs ne font plus 25m mais plutot 35 car il faut slalomer un peut comme au ski sauf que là ca fait partie de la technique habituelle pour la nage.
Je viens peut-être d'inventer une nouvelle discipline qui sous peu pourrait devenir une épreuve officiele des JO, qui sait ?

Toujours est-il que j'ai passé un super bon moment de détente.

I've updated the radio blog with a ultraviolent short and orchestral remixes improved in terms of audio quality.
I put also a little improvisation at the acoustic guitar : one track for the chords and an another one for the lead.

It's not always easy to know everything about the syntax, functions of a language or technology.
You can found help with the Quick reference cards wich are documents with an overview of the main features and syntax of many languages.
So, it's a MUST HAVE for any developer. :)))

Ultraviolent orchestral remix has just been released.
I love strings so I made a very simple track with improvisation of strings with my synth, some drums for the intro and the voice of Fabian.
The track is available in my studio section (radio blog).

It seems that UWS is not dead :)
Ultraviolent single has been realeased.
And I like it, it's pop and fresh and far to be violent LOL
I'm looking to create a remix of the original arrangements.

Bonne fête nationale pour tous les ptits belges qui passent sur ce site :)

L'INRIA Sophia-Antipolis a mis sous licence GPL l'implémentation d'un algorithme permettant d'améliorer la qualité d'une image de manière assez bluffante. Comme vous pouvez le voir sur le premier lien, on obtient un résultat vraiment impression avec par exemple la possibilité d'enlever les lunettes d'une personnes, le système s'occupant de remplacer les pixels cachés.
La démo impressionante ici.

I have installed radio blog in my studio section.
What is radio blog ? It's a flash interface wich allows to stream audio.
I put some of my piano improvisation just for your pleasure (I hope so).
And much more songs in the future !
I would appreciate some feedbacks, don't be shy ...
In advance many thanks ! :)

If you are a user of SharpReader (a RSS aggregator written in .net), I shared an export file of my subscribed feeds in my blog box.

For the people interested by the .NET platform, the slides of the teched 2004 are available for download here.

Source: PHP Everywhere

The PHP team is proud to announce the final release of PHP 5!

Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:

• The Zend Engine II
  with a new object model and dozens of new features.
• XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now
  focused around the excellent libxml2 library
  (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
• A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as
  PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.
• A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
• A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later.
  This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to
  a traditional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL's new features,
  such as prepared statements.

• SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite,
  please visit their website.

• Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access
  low-level socket operations on streams.
• And lots more...

For changes since Release Candidate 3, please consult the
ChangeLog.

Un article de l'expansion reprenant les propos de Patrick Le Lay, pdf de tf1. Surprenant.

Vous aimez les poissons et vous cherchez l'aquarium qui s'intégrera parfaitement dans votre intérieur moderne ?
Soyons réaliste, c'est certainement pas accessible pour tout le monde mais rien que pour le coup d'oeil, ca vaut le détour.

I played with some rendering software (terragen and vue d'esprit tryout), some results are viewable in my pictures gallery
One of these pictures required 1h17' of rendering :)

Currently, I'm building the new website for the linux ntfs project.
The main aim is to be able to search on every content.
The portal will be based on drupal with the following modules :

• book (wiki)
• forum
• news and rss
• search on content

Mono 1.0 final is out.
more details