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    March 27

    Just one last dance

    Just one last dance....oh baby...just one last dance

    We meet in the night in the Spanish café
    I look in your eyes just don't know what to say
    It feels like I'm drowning in salty water
    A few hours left 'til the sun's gonna rise
    tomorrow will come an it's time to realize
    our love is finished forever

    how I wish to come with you (wish to come with you)
    how I wish we make it through

    Chorus:
    Just one last dance
    before we say goodbye
    when we sway and turn around, around, around
    it's like the first time
    Just one more chance
    hold me tight and keep me warm
    cause the night is getting cold
    and I don't know where I belong
    Just one last dance

    The wine and the lights and the Spanish guitar
    I'll never forget how romantic they are
    but I know, tomorrow I'll lose the one I love

    There's no way to come with you
    it's the only thing to do

    Chorus 3x (until fade)

    Just one last dance, just one more chance, just one last dance
    March 23

    16th Jolt Awards

    The 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Award published recently. It is old news now, but is still worth notice among software developers.
     
    Jolt, the Oscar award for Software Development. Although released by Software Development Magazine, Jolt won its reputation with highly recognized quality. It introduced several execellent software tools and technical books to me in recent years. Jolt label means that one can pay before he/she know the details.
     
    Here is the latest:
     
     

    BOOKS GENERAL

    Jolt Winner: Prefactoring by Ken Pugh (O'Reilly)

    Productivity Winners:
    Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy by Ron Goldman, Richard P. Gabriel (Morgan Kaufmann)
    Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project by Karl Fogel (O'Reilly)
    The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun (O'Reilly)

    BOOKS TECHNICAL

    Jolt Winner: Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt and Mike Clark (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

    Productivity Winners:
    Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams (Addison-Wesley)
    Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel (Apress)
    Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging by Andreas Zeller (Morgan Kaufmann)

    ENTERPRISE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

    Jolt Winner: WelcomRisk 2.6 (Welcom)

    Productivity Winners:
    Corticon Business Rules Management 4.0 (Corticon)
    JBoss 2 Portal (JBoss)
    Visual Studio Team System 2005 (Microsoft)

    DATABASE ENGINES AND DATA TOOLS

    Jolt Winner: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Microsoft)

    Productivity Winners:
    Berkeley DB 4.4 (Sleepycat Software)
    Google Maps API 2005 (Google)
    MySQL 5.0 (MySQL)

    DEFECT TRACKING, CHANGE AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

    Jolt Winner: Perforce SCM 2005 (Perforce)

    Productivity Winners:
    FogBugz 4.0 (Fog Creek)
    Guiffy SureMerge 7.0 (Guiffy Software)
    JIRA 3.4 (Atlassian Software)

    DESIGN TOOLS AND MODELING

    Jolt Winner: Lattix LDM 2.0 (Lattix)

    Productivity Winners:
    Borland Together 2006 for Eclipse (Borland)
    Enterprise Architect 6.0 (Sparx Systems)
    MindManager Pro 6.0 (Mindjet)

    DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS

    Jolt Winner: Visual Studio Team System 2005 (Microsoft)

    Productivity Winners:
    Eclipse SDK 3.1 (Eclipse.org)
    IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 (JetBrains)
    Komodo 3.5 (ActiveState)

    LIBRARIES, FRAMEWORKS AND COMPONENTS

    Jolt Winner: .NET Framework 2.0 (Microsoft)

    Productivity Winners:
    Dundas Chart for .NET 5.0 (Dundas Software)
    Qt 4.0 (Trolltech)
    Spring Framework 1.2.6 (SpringFramework.org)

    MOBILE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

    Jolt Winner: Crossfire 5.6 (AppForge)

    Productivity Winners:
    Carbide.c++ Express (Nokia)
    Flash Lite 2.0 (Adobe)
    NetBeans IDE 4.1 (Sun Microsystems)

    QUALITY PROJECT MANAGEMENT

    Jolt Winner: Rally 5.6 (Rally Software Development)

    Productivity Winners:
    CollabNet Enterprise Edition with Project Dashboard/Task Management 2005 (CollabNet)
    QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.1 (Compuware)
    TargetProcess Suite 1.4 (TargetProcess)

    SECURITY TOOLS

    Jolt Winner: Elemental Compliance System 1.4 (Elemental)

    Productivity Winners:
    CodeAssure 2.0 (Secure Software)
    DevPartner SecurityChecker 1.0 (Compuware)
    Fortify Security Tester 1.0 (Fortify)

    TESTING TOOLS

    Jolt Winner: VMTN Subscription 2005 (VMware)

    Productivity Winners:
    Agitator 3.0 (Agitar Software)
    AQtime 4.7 (AutomatedQA)
    Clover 1.3 (Cenqua)

    UTILITIES

    Jolt Winner: Camtasia Studio 3.0 (TechSmith)

    Productivity Winners:
    DevPartner Studio 8 (Compuware)
    Fog Creek Copilot 1.2 (Fog Creek Software)
    ReSharper 1.5 (JetBrains)

    WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

    Jolt Winner: Rails 1.0 (rubyonrails.org)

    Productivity Winners:
    JBoss Application Server 4x (JBoss)
    Macromedia Studio 8 2005 (Adobe)
    Zend Studio - Enterprise Edition 5.0 (Zend)

    HALL OF FAME WINNER:

    • Visual Studio Professional Edition
    (Microsoft)

     

     

     

    March 17

    Comme toi

    elle avait les yeux clairs et la robe en velours
    a coté de sa mere et la famille autour
    elle pose un peu discréte au doux soleil de la fin du jour
    La photo n'est pas bonne mais l'on peut y voir
    le bonheur en personne et la douceur d'un soir
    Elle aimait la musique surtout Schuman et puis Mozart

    Comme toi, comme toi comme toi .....
    Comme toi, comme toi comme toi.....
    Comme toi que je regarde tout bas
    Comme toi qui dors en revant a quoi?
    comme toi, comme toi comme toi....

    Elle allait à l'ecole au village d'en bas
    elle apprennait les livres elle apprennait les lois
    elle chantait les grenouilles et les princesses dorment au bois
    elle aimait sa poupée elle aimait ses amies
    surtout ruth et anna et surtout jeremy
    et ils se mariraient un jour peut etre à Varsovie

    Comme toi comme toi comme toi....
    Comme toi, comme toi comme toi....
    Comme toi que je regarde tout bas
    COmme toi qui dors en revant a quoi?
    comme toi, comme toi comme toi....

    Elle s'apellait sarah elle n'avait pas 8 ans
    sa vie s'etait douceur, rêves et nuages blancs
    Mais d'autres gens en avaient decidé autrement
    Elle avait tes yeux clairs et elle avait ton age
    C'etait une petite fille sans histoire et tres sage
    mais elle n'est pas née comme toi ici et maintenant

    Comme toi comme toi comme toi....
    Comme toi comme toi comme toi...
    Comme toi que je regarde tout bas
    COmme toi qui dors en revant a quoi?
    comme toi, comme toi comme toi....

    Casablanca

    I fell in love with you watching Casablanca
    Back row at the drive in show in the flickering light
    Popcorn and cokes beneath the stars
    Became champagne and caviar
    Making love on a long hot summer night

    I thought you fell in love with me watching Casablanca
    Holding hands neath the paddle fans
    In Rick's candle lit cafe
    Hiding the shadows from the spots
    A rocky moonlight in your arms
    Making magic in the movie in my old Chevrolet

    Oh a kiss is still a kiss in Casablanca
    But a kiss is not a kiss without your sigh
    Please come back to me in Casablanca
    I love you more and more each day as time goes by

    I guess there're many broken hearts in Casablanca
    You know I've never been there so I don't know
    I guess our love story will never be seen
    On the big wide silver screen
    But it hurts just as bad when I had to watch it go