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For some times now, i'm reading about web marketing and business thanks to book like the four hour workweek or the site the thirty day challenge . I'm doing this test with a friend who has launched his own web site : http://romanticguidetoparis.com/ The main idea is to test the interest of the public to a product before really creating it. The first step was to search a niche domain where i can create a product. For that, I have used google adword, SEO tools and a very usefull application named Market Samurai. The niche product is, at this time, only a set of keywords with enough searchs by day, the less possible number of sites already associated to them and site with a weak page rank (the score that google affect to the site to sort the search results). And i have found : gothic corset. I have found a avaliable domain name : www.goth-corsets.com . The next step is to create the site with wordpress and begin to make it known.

Difficult to maintain a blog when you have so many occupation :) What's happen during this two months ? Some trips in les Alpes (skiing) and in London (this city is fanstatic ... if you are rich). I have finished some books of my personnal mba : - the unwritten laws of business - the design of every day things (I am a big fan of it). - the four hour workweek I'm reading Making Things happen about project management which is also excelent. I'm very happy to have discovered personnal MBA and the recommended reading list. So far they are very good and i'm learning a lot. I have also read a french book named "Back-offices et marchés financier". The first part explains what is a back office and the second part explains the interest, problems and risks of back-office. This second part is mainly based on the exemple of Baring's case who was sunk by one trader. Written in 1997, he explains the importance of back offices to avoid financial crisis .... yes like the...

Web is originally and mostly an HTML world with page by page navigation. Oh yes there is flash but it is designed for graphist with massive website and it was always used for merchandising and promotion site. In business, in the better case, we had some techno like Struts for it's Model View Controller architecture. Sadly this was not a good looking user interface with old fashioned page by page navigation with maybe some css styling. Almost two years ago, a "new" techno appears called Ajax. This was the begining of revolution and what we call "Web 2.0". Why it was revolution ? because it enables changement in a page without changing this page thanks a little command and a good use of DOM model (the HTML model of a page). With the use of massive javascript, good looking UI for web appears like Dojo. But a problem remains, a techno problem because it's need to the developper to know very well javascript and html DOM. These techno are not known very well, not ...

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I have already talked about CUDA after the GPU barcamp. Now it's time for OpenCL which specifications have been "officialy" launched a few days ago. Like they say : "OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is the first open, royalty-free standard for general-purpose parallel programming of heterogeneous systems. OpenCL provides a uniform programming environment for software developers to write efficient, portable code for high-performance compute servers, desktop computer systems and handheld devices using a diverse mix of multi-core CPUs, GPUs, Cell-type architectures and other parallel processors such as DSPs." An article in french : http://www.hardware.fr/articles/744-1/opencl-gpu-computing-enfin-democratise.html Another article in english : http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081209-gpgpu-opens-up-with-opencl-1-0-spec-release.html

All has begun at this page : http://blogs.nofrag.com/Sebultura/2008/nov/17/41641-jeux-video-sparse-voxel-octree-part-2/ which references this post : http://ompf.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=904&st=0&sk=t&sd=a A very interesting discussion about the "new" possibilities of Voxel. Moreover, because I try to help on a game editor project, Voxel seems to be a good choice to create an easy-to-use terrain editor. So i look forward and i search post at gamedev.net. I have found these links : http://artis.imag.fr/Membres/Cyril.Crassin/ http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.8.6961 http://www.crs4.it/vic/cgi-bin/bib-page.cgi?id=%27Gobbetti:2005:FV%27 http://www.cs.unc.edu/~walk/hlod/ http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/publications/nrc-48126_e.html http://www.crs4.it/vic/cgi-bin/bib-page.cgi?id=%27Cignoni:2004:ATE%27 http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lindstro/papers/visualization2002/paper.pdf A tutorial : http://www.flipcode.com/voxtut/ Coming from theses two post...

I have worked one big year at Thales Service and I was so disapointed. I have worked on two very interesting project on paper : a radar system and a combat management system for a frigate. Technically they were, at the best case, moderately good. Sometimes awfull. But the worst was the "political" decisions ruining the progression, the quality and motivation of people working on this project. So when i see this : www.moonshield.com ... I want to cry or laugh, your choice. Maybe, instead of doing 'serious game', Thales can do 'serious project' ? And when you go here, www.jobs.thalesgroup.com . You can see the marvelous work of marketing and advertising. You can discover different careers at Thales ... and yes you can see, there is only one people who produce something (although it is mostly a searcher). The others are manager. And you now understand the problem. They put no interest in project development, in software engineer and, with only managers, you can...