I just posted a new track on my site and thought I'd give all you faithful blog readers a first look (since no one else is aware it's up yet).  The track was a demo I wrote called Behind the Wall.  The piece was written with isolation in mind, I tried to keep the instruments isolated and somewhat stark, but cohesive as a song.  I used solo and small ensemble string sections and a piano to create the piece.  Enjoy.

Behind the Wall

Thanks for reading,

Rob

public class StringReverse {

public static String reverse(String str) {
if (str == null || str.length() == 0) {
return str;
} else {
StringBuilder bul = new StringBuilder(str);
for(int i=0,j=bul.length()-1;i char c=bul.charAt(i);
bul.setCharAt(i, bul.charAt(j));
bul.setCharAt(j, c);
}
return bul.toString();
}
}
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace SplitString
{
    static void Main (string[] args)
    {
        string values = "-23, -20, -22, -30, -43";
        string[] values_split = values.Split(',');
        int[] dvalues = new int [values_split.Length];

        for (int i = 0; i < values_split.Length; i++)
        {
            int.TryParse(values_split[i], out dvalues[i]);
        }
    }
}

This may not be the cleanest or most efficient method of converting from a string to an array of integers but it seems to work. If a given string was not able to be parsed into an integer value using the TryParse method then the corresponding element in the integer array will be set to zero. Depending on how the code was actually going to be used you may want to handle the failed parse differently.

1. An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.
2. One that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group; a dissenter.

Makes one wonder what other self descriptions they are using incorrectly.  Or could it be that they are letting the voters know they are 'property of' the same hidden forces that controlled the Bush administration?  Your guess is as good as mine.

Vous sentez peut être la polémique poindre son nez et vous n’ avez peut être pas tort !

Je me suis d’abord laissé tenter par seulement déposer un commentaire à l’article de mon compatriote Le sexisme des Français. Mais Monsieur Benjamin, certaines phrases ne peuvent rester impunies par la Sainte Inquisition du français féministe…

De plus, je ne risque pas de déclencher un conflit international vu que nous restons entre Grenouilles.

Après un début prometteur sur le fait qu’une femme devrait pouvoir se vêtir comme bon lui semble, on revient rapidement à un stéréotype effroyable qui est le :  jupe courte = fille facile… La comparaison de la séduction avec un escalier est très juste mais il ne faut pas oublier qu’ on peut en tomber facilement et se faire assez mal en arrivant en bas…

Ce n’ est pas cette phrase là qui a éveillé mes pulsions de chiens de garde mais plutôt cela :

"Le français est de plus très préoccupé par l’égalité des sexes. Si une jupe trop courte nous dérange sur une femme, c’est que nous n’aimerions pas la voir sur un ami, c’est aussi simple que ça."

Aie aie aie, je suis très content de voir des ami(e)s porter des jupes très courtes, des décolletés très plongeants et une infinité d’ accessoires mettant en avant leur charme. Et le fait que cela puisse déranger quelqu’un peut être jugé comme du sexisme, finalement un homme se promenant dans la rue la chemise à moitié ouverte n’ attirera pas les mêmes regards des femmes ?!? Et pourquoi ? Parce que les filles aiment bien voir leur ami habiller de cette façon ? Je ne pense pas, par contre peut être parce que la société dans laquelle nous vivons sexualise bien moins le corps d’ un homme que d’une femme ( en dehors de la communauté homosexuelle bien sûr ), il suffit pour cela de regarder les pubs, les films, les barbies, les strings existant en taille 8 ans…  et de se rappeler que la prostitution est à 90% féminine pour la satisfaction des hommes (un statut d’objet sexuel).

Le français est préoccupé par l’égalité des sexes dans un contexte de politiquement correct mais regardons dans les faits et dans les chiffres :

- Une femme est payée en moyenne 27% de moins qu’ un homme sur un même poste

- Une femme occupe 80% des emplois dits précaires (temps partiel imposé, Intérim, CDD…)

- Une femme gère 90% des tâches non rémunérées ( ménage, enfants, administratifs…)

- Les droits de la femme en matière d’ avortement sont de plus en plus rognés, le fétus mort-né peut être déclaré à l’ État Civil (ce qui est d’ ailleurs en train de se passer au Québec avec le C-484).

- 1 femme meurt tous les trois jours sous les coups de son conjoint

Et ce n’est qu’un échantillon d’une inégalité criante compensée parce que l’ on appelle la parité ( et qui d’ ailleurs ne fonctionne pas puisque les dernières élections de l’Assemblée Nationale donnent 23% de femmes dans l’ hémicycle). Alors préoccupé peut être mais agissant sûrement pas.

Je termine avec une citation d’une femme française, plus ou moins fondatrice du courant féministe actuelle :

"La femme n’est victime d’ aucune mystérieuse fatalité : il ne faut pas conclure que ses ovaires la condamnent à vivre éternellement à genoux." (Simone De Beauvoir).

PS : il n’ y a évidemment rien de personnel mon cher Benjamin…

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I had the opportunity to pick up the following one at WILL's Vintage Vinyl sale a few summers ago, but passed because it was $15 and in poor shape. The Makers spoofed this cover for a 7" of the same name they released many moons ago.

Hmm, maybe I've found the cover for STRINGS! ... ? How would my face look on this?

As the number of lines, May also have symbols. Esteban guitar review For example, the symbol "x" on a line means that the channel is not played at all. Other symbols that you can see in the form of guitar are "b" (note the curve), "H" (hammer), "p" (pull off) and "t" (touch).

Learn to read guitar tablature is essential to learn to play guitar properly. Follow these guidelines and that it will soon be able to play your favorite songs with ease and perfection.

A new preview tarball has just been uploaded on the Forge, as well as a new preview documentation.

As a side-note, the Haskell community seems to be involved much in the same process as Batteries Included, with the Haskell Platform, aka Haskell Batteries Included. Both their schedule and their list of packages seem a little more precise than ours but the overall objective remains the same: take a great programming language used mostly by academics and turn it into a complete development platform able to compete with the best the industrial world is able to offer. The main difference, it seems, is that the Haskell Platform doesn't have a glue layer designed to uniformize APIs. The other main difference, I'm afraid, is that the Haskell community seems much larger these days than the OCaml community -- or perhaps just more active or more verbal. It is my hope that a larger and more convenient standard library will help draw (back?) both academics and developers to the OCaml world. A little more academic support wouldn't hurt, of course.

Back to OCaml Batteries Included, I hope we'll be able release by October 10th. At that point, we'll need beta-testing and it will be time to decide of what should get into Batteries Included 0.2. I'm sure everyone has ideas and suggestions -- it will soon be time to share them.

Nachtrag: Wäsche wurde inzwischen aufgehangen...meine Höschen...immernoch nicht auffindbar. Befürchte, ich habe sie schlicht und einfach zu Hause liegen gelassen.

Nachtrag 2: Habe nun endlich heut früh meine so sehr vermissten Slips gefunden. Sie lagen - warum auch immer - gemütlich in meiner Sockenschublade. Vielleicht hatten sie wichtige Verhandlungen. Immerhin nehmen die Socken bedeutend mehr Platz in Anspruch von dem die Slips nur träumen können.

When I first took the exam, the strings section was the section that I got my worst score. It took me days to figure out what went wrong. I don't think that there's any PHP developer that doesn't work with strings at least once a day and I do work with strings and patterns pretty much the whole day long. After you get to know strings manipulation a bit more you will see that it is as powerfull as Arrays.

For a start do you know what's the difference between echo and print? Basically is only the fact that print returns a interger (1 or 1 - true or true always) and prints the string in the document, but you should know how both work, because that is what is going to be asked from you in the exam.

Take a look in the print.

• Is a language constructor so you don't need the parenthesis
• it will work as a function because it will return a value
• it does not always work in the same way as echo

If you do <?php print 9.9 ?> it will print on the document 9.9, but, if you <?php echo 9.9 ?> it will print on the document 99. This is the first big catch with print and echo.

Now let's take a look in the echo:

• is a language constructor so you don't need to use the parenthesis (that you knew) but if you want you can use the parenthesis just like print
• it does not return a result after printing the string in the document
• you can pass more than one string to print with echo using commas (know this by heart)
• dot's are used to concatenate strings in an echo
• double quotes and single quotes does not work in the same way

Using the same example as before would not make much sense, but I have one that will help you understand what kind of question you will see in the exam when working with strings.

What is the final result that is going to be printed?

<?php
echo '55' . print('0.4') + 3;
?>

To answer correctly this question you must know how both constructors work, so let's "debug" this question.

print('0.4') will print 0.4, but echo print('0.4') will print 0.41. Seems odd, but you got to remember that print will first print it's result and then echo will print the return of the print constructor, so 0.41.

echo '55' . print('0.4') will print then 0.4551. Now things get confusing, but it's not hard. The print constructor will work a bit faster than echo because it only have a single string to print and echo will have 2 arguments to take care of, so print will print first 0.4 then echo will print it's first argument, 55 and finally it will print it's last argument, 1 that is the result of print. In the end we will have 0.4551 as result.

Now comes the third part of the question, adding the value 3 to the string. You must noted by now that the whole string is numeric, so PHP converting the string to float and then adding 3 would not be a problem, but how do you think it would work if we added the string 'ab' with the '55' string and an 'c' inside the print? In this case it would try to convert the result of the print first to a float number, so 'c' would be excluded, and then add the value 3 and then concatenate the string.

This is all and actually all of this are all my notes about strings when studying for the exam. Here are some links that you should take a look at to learn more about strings:

• http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1
• http://us3.php.net/print
• http://us3.php.net/echo

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To remove this problem, we have StringBuilder Class which is not immutable. So using this class, we can easily change the value on the same instance. That means it change the value on the same object.

Eg:

string str="Hello ";
str+="World";
// The above example create two instance  --immutable
StringBuilder str=new StringBuilder("Hello ");
str.Append("World");
//The above example create a single instance--not immutable

I was initially unaware that you could customize the color of the Speedport string inserts, as shown here,

http://www.princetennis.com/tennis/customyzeit/o3speedportblack.aspx

As I'm still experimenting with strings, different color combinations makes the racquets easy to distinguish (I currently have two), especially if I have both temporarily strung with the same brand but at different tensions. And, it gives the racquet a more personalized touch (other than colored overgrip).

At least I can order the customized inserts (they're pretty cheap) and have them replaced at the next restringing.

Pretty cool use of Flash on the Prince site :)

All the pop singers faced challenges in the beginning. It was as if they were committing blasphemy to music. However, they managed to silence their critics quite quickly and rose to stardom. Its just amazing then, to see the classic gurus and stars of the new generation collaborate and create this musical treat in the experiment called "CokeStudio".

Coke Studio was designed and produced by 'Rohail Hayat' of the legendary Vital Signs. Its an ultimate fusion experience. Its such a lovely enriching experience to listen to familiar beats and young voices of the popular songs blend in with rags, alaaps more traditional voices. Credit should be given to our pop stars to train us and make us listen to the classical tunes through their popular numbers.

My favorites are Balamaan and Garaj Baras by Ali Azmat & Rahat Fateh Ali Khan , Duur by Strings and Ustad H.B Gullo, and Allah Hu by Ali Zafar & Tufail Ahmed. The experience introduces many new singers as backing vocals as well. Saba and Selina are one of them & they sing an impressive rendition of "I am in Love". "Balamaan" puts you in a mystic romantic mood by its rhetoric repetition of words like balamaan & katay nahi by both the singers. Allah Hu is a very strong devotional Sufi song. It's through this song that I have really been able to see the might and capability of Ali Zafar's talent & Tufail Ahmed's voice has given the song a rare kind of deep dimension. Duur by Strings has been a long time personal favorite and it amazing to hear more emphasis put by Ustad Gullo on the key words from every verse by Strings.

Listen for yourself. These beautiful numbers can be found at

Ali Azmat & Rahat Fateh Ali
http://www.cokestudio.com.pk/episode-01/

Strings, Ustab H.B Gullo and Saba & Selina
http://www.cokestudio.com.pk/episode-02/

Ali Zafar and Tufail Ahmed
http://www.cokestudio.com.pk/episode-03/

All Artists
http://www.cokestudio.com.pk/episode-04/

(c) 2008. Uzma Khan. All Rights Reserved.

Sorry about the boring video.

This little piece of music took me about 10 hours to compose. It's the best piece of music I've made so far.

I hope you like it ;)

It's made with Music Studio Producer. I used 2 VST instruments: Ricko-Mixdouble and DSK Strings.

They are both free and really great.

Ricko-Mixdouble is a soundfont player, which enables you to use soundfont files for your instruments.

DSK Strings is a VSTi, that has a very realistic string-sound.

Take care

-Daniel

The Pink Teddy

Skype ID: dkaelder

   bye. :(

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"My ass stinks!"
"And that's news?"
"C'mon man! No matter how much I wipe, I can't ever seem to get it clean."
"You should keep going until there's nary a whiff on the toilet paper."
"I'd go through three rolls!"
"You gotta do what you gotta do."
"Sage advice, man. Well, I guess I should be glad its your turn to buy the toilet paper."
A door slams shut. Muffled: "In bulk, please."
"Doh!"

"Marianna..."
"Who?"
"Oh, shit!"

"This likes but that this likes that is that."
"That likes this and this likes that?"
"Yes!...well, no. This likes that and that likes that."
"What's this do then?"
"This is like that, and that, like, is that."
"So that's it."

"I'd sleep with a donut."
"I've seen him do it."
"No, you haven't!"
"Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised."
"You should see what he does with the hole."
"All right, that's enough, guys!"

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"Uh wot's dat, chum?"
"Ah shown't tal and chew, huh?"

"Keep your eyes peeled."
"Uh..."
"Wotsmatter?"
"I haven't done this since the army and, uh..."
"The fuck you talking about?"
"Having performed such procedures and witnessing its effects I'm leery of doing it, much less inflicting it on myself."
"At it, pussy! I'm asking nothing more from you but to keep your eyes open."
"B-bu--"
"No buts!"

"Master, bate yourself and attend the cunning lynx to us!!"
"Cor!"