Gomik's

R.I.P. Amy

2011-07-23T11:54:00.000-07:00

Amy Winehouse – Back to black

He left no time to regret
Kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet
Me and my head high
And my tears dry
Get on without my guy
You went back to what you knew
So far removed from all that we went through
And I tread a troubled track
My odds are stacked
I’ll go back to black

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

I go back to us

I love you much
It’s not enough
You love blow and I love puff

And life is like a pipe
And I’m a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

Black, black, black, black, black, black, black,
I go back to
I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black

What song are you listening to

2011-07-20T13:07:00.000-07:00

A uno studente universitario americano, Tyler Cullen, è venuto in mente, per uno dei sui progetti per la School of Visual Arts di fermare gente per strada rivolgendo un semplicissima domanda , "Che cosa stai ascoltando ?"

Il video in poco tempo ha avuto un enorme successo su Youtube, tanto che l'esperimento è stato ripreso in parecchie città del mondo, anche nella nostra Milano da una radio locale. Si scopre che si ascolta un po' di tutto, da Gino Paoli a Lady Gaga, parecchio gettonata nei vari video.

E' carino vedere l’imbarazzo con cui alcuni rivelano il titolo, molti arrossiscono, altri sono più disinvolti, nelle inquadrature successive si vede la città con i loro occhi e la musica in sottofondo.

New York

Milano

Copenhagen

Vienna

Ciao Charlie

2011-07-19T02:35:00.000-07:00

La mia stima per Rino Gaetano non ha confini, vorrei riproporre una demo di un brano uscito l'anno scorso con una delle sue tante raccolte, che malinconia sentire la sua voce roca, senza nessun filtro, una registrazione di prova, vera, viva.

Ho provato a trascrivere il testo, che non ho trovato da nessuna parte, incomprensibile, almeno per me, la parte in inglese.

Ciao Charlie
Ti ringrazio di mille illusioni con le tue canzoni
Ciao Charlie
Anche se non ci capivo niente io le cantavo sempre
Ciao Charlie
How do you do ?
Ciao Charlie
Immaginavo le tue canzoni a festa d'amore e di protesta
Ciao Charlie
Ma quando lei entrava nel mio cuore cantavi solo amore
Ciao Charlie, Ciao Mike, Ciao John, Ciao Elvis
Ciao Jazz, Ciao Bob, Ciao Otis, Ciao John
Ciao Jimi, Ciao George, Ciao Bob
Ciao Charlie
Ti ringrazio di mille illusioni con le tue canzoni

Chi sarà ma il Charlie di cui parla ? molti propendono per Charlie Chaplin, era anche un compositore oltre che regista/attore, oppure Charlie Parker, ma è assai improbabile visto che il jazz non era proprio il suo mondo, resta il dubbio.

Chiaro invece il saluto finale ai grandi padri della musica, facilmente riconducibili a Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Paul Mac Cartney, John Lennon ed Otis Redding.

Aggiungerei Ciao Rino , grazie.

Top Gear

2011-07-17T02:35:00.000-07:00

Ieri sera facendo zapping in tv mi sono ritrovato su Realtime, uno di quei nuovi canali arrivati insieme al digitale terrestre, trasmettevano una vecchia puntata di Top Gear, trasmissione inglese della BBC sul mondo delle auto, per gli appassionati come me, è senza dubbio la miglior trasmissione al mondo sui motori.

Due considerazioni, il doppiaggio era penoso, roba da far venire il vomito, meglio dei sottotitoli allora, poi mi chiedo, ma è possibile che in Italia, patria della Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati e via dicendo, non siamo capaci di realizzare una trasmissione simile ? il massimo che riusciamo a tirare fuori dal cilindro magico è quella specie di spot pubblicitario per le auto chiamato Easy Driver ?? per non parlare di Tg2 Motori, che tristezza

Vi lascio un video della Pagani Zonda R , realizzata dalle parti di Modena, lo sapevate ?

Night Swimming

2011-07-12T14:38:00.000-07:00

“Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago,
Turned around backwards so the windshield shows
Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse
Still, it’s so much clearer
I forgot my shirt at the water’s edge
The moon is low tonight

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
I’m not sure all these people understand
It’s not like years ago,
The fear of getting caught,
Of recklessness and water
They cannot see me naked
These things, they go away,
Replaced by everyday

Nightswimming, remembering that night
September’s coming soon
I’m pining for the moon
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun?
That bright, tight forever drum
Could not describe nightswimming

You, I thought I knew you
You, I cannot judge
You, I thought you knew me,
This one laughing quietly underneath my breath
Nightswimming

The photograph reflects,
Every streetlight a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night,
deserves a quiet night”

Solitary Man

2011-07-08T13:20:00.000-07:00

Adoro questo vecchio brano! alcuni dati, scritto da Neil Diamond e pubblicato nel lontano 1966. La canzone è autobiografica come ha ammesso lo stesso autore, scopre Melinda tra le braccia di Jim, poi arriva l'amore con Sue, ma finirà, quindi ritornerà ad essere quello che è sempre stato, un uomo solitario.
La mia storia praticamente.

Non tutti sanno che questo brano è stato ripreso da molti altri artisti, anche italiani, il nostro Gianni Morandi infatti ne ha fatto una versione tutta sua, "Se perdo anche te", 1967, con un nuovo testo e musica arrangiata da Ennio Morricone

A sua volta Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi ha ripreso la vecchia versione di Morandi con un bellissimo video che mi piace parecchio

Un'altra bella versione, fedele all'originale, è quella di Jonny Cash, del 2000

Chiudendo, per gli amanti del rock, una versione tutta pimpante degli HIM, 2004

Esistono anche altre versioni stile country ma sinceramente non mi piacciono, ho inserito in questo breve elenco le mie preferite! Buon ascolto .... Melinda was mine .....

Il sensitivo triste

2011-07-06T05:08:00.000-07:00

Ho visto Hereafter, di Clint Eastwood con Matt Damon, non credo sia un capolavoro ma un bel film si. Il protagonista è un sensitivo triste, più che vedere la sua capacità come un "dono" la vede come una "condanna". Certo il tema della morte non è semplice da affrontare, ma Clint Eastwood ci riesce con spunti che invitano alla speranza e fanno, se ce ne fosse necessità, apprezzare la vita. Lo consiglio.

Voto personale : 3.5 / 5

Bella anche la colonna sonora, Lullaby di Sia , enjoy :)

Almost True

2011-07-05T04:54:00.000-07:00

Nei giorni scorsi, per caso, ho trovato su youtube l'episodio di una puntata di Almost True andato in onda su Deejay TV, condotto da Carlo Lucarelli, che stimo parecchio. Praticamente si afferma che Jim Morrison non sia morto (storia già sentita tante volte) , e che, dopo diversi interventi di plastica facciale, si sia trasformato in Barry Manilow.

La cosa mi lascia abbastanza attonito, mi sembrano due mondi opposti, sinceramente faccio fatica ad immaginare il rè lucertola intonare "Mandy" o "Copacabana", no, non può essere.

Nella puntata si parla molto del club J27, cioè Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin e Jim Morrison , tutti morti all'età di 27 anni, tutti con una J nel nome, uccisi per mano della CIA. Strana coincidenza certo, chissà, forse sono solo leggende metropolitane, di certo non lo sapremo mai.

Questa sotto sembra essere l'ultima foto di Jim Morrison scattata nel suo appartamento di Parigi, probabilmente da Pamela, barba e capelli lunghi, non so perchè ma mi mette un pò tristezza...

Il 3 luglio 1971 James Douglas Morrison viene trovato morto nella vasca da bagno del suo appartamento, da Pamela , il medico parla di decesso per cause naturali, "arresto cardiaco", non è stata eseguita nessuna autopsia, la sua morte è stata resa pubblica solamente il 7 luglio e il funerale eseguito in gran segreto. Questa è la versione ufficiale.

Resta comunque il suo indelebile ricordo, R.I.P.

ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑ ΕΑΥΤΟΥ

GUID

2009-06-25T00:55:00.000-07:00

A globally unique identifier is a special type of identifier used in applications in order to provide a reference number which is unique in any contex.

in Vb.net you con get a guid using this code :

System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString()

the unique key created will be something like this:
c3b1450c-f17c-4f68-90f0-6fa7b018d291

Visual Studio icons

2009-06-19T03:28:00.000-07:00

Visual Studio is an excellent development tools, but usually we are not encouraged to think that it can also include icons for use in our applications. It is not really so: the 2008 version contains an archive that can satisfy most of our aesthetic needs.

Where is this "gold mine"? You have to unpack the zip archive that is located in the folder where you installed the software. Typically the path is:

C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0 \ Common7 \ VS2008ImageLibrary \ 1033 \ VS2008ImageLibrary.zip.

You will find icons in Vista style, and some PNG images that contain multiple elements, from extrapolation according to our own needs.

Pass two dimension Array into a Function

2009-06-18T06:39:00.000-07:00

Today I was trying to create a function that would accept a two-dimensional array as parameter,

it wasn't so intuitive, after some research I found the solution :

Function MultiArray(ByVal arr(,) As String)
..
End Function

in case of three-dimensional array it will be :

Function MultiArray(ByVal arr(,,) As String)
..
End Function

and so on

Dataset find and edit a row

2009-06-17T00:22:00.000-07:00

First of all to use the dataset/datatable find method we have to define a column key:

datatable1.PrimaryKey = New DataColumn() {datatable1.Columns(0)}

second step, we do a find over the key column :

Dim dr as DataRow
dr = datatable1.rows.find('value to find')
If dr IsNot Nothing Then
...your code
End If

if we want update the row that we found in the original datatable we have to add this code:

Dim dr as DataRow
dr = datatable1.rows.find('value to find')
If dr IsNot Nothing Then
dr.BeginEdit()
dr.Item("PhoneNumber") = "04-5492302"
datatable1.AcceptChanges()
dr.EndEdit()
End If

in this way we have made a change in the original datatable

ListView Clone

2009-06-14T06:22:00.000-07:00

I want to extend the ListView class that I proposed in a previous post with a new method that the ListView control does not have, clone :

Public Class ImprovedListView
Inherits ListView

Private WM_HSCROLL As Integer = &H114
Private WM_VSCROLL As Integer = &H115

Public Event HorizontalScroll()
Public Event VerticalScroll()

Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As Message)
Select Case (m.Msg)
Case WM_VSCROLL
RaiseEvent VerticalScroll()
Case WM_HSCROLL
RaiseEvent HorizontalScroll()
End Select

MyBase.WndProc(m)
End Sub

Public Function Clone() As IsiListView
Dim itm As ListViewItem
Dim ListView2 As New IsiListView

For Each itm In Me.Items
Dim newItm As ListViewItem = itm.Clone
ListView2.Items.Add(newItm)
Next

Return ListView2
End Function
End Class

SQL Server - How to rename a column or table

2009-06-09T04:54:00.000-07:00

With T-Sql we have a very convenient store to rename the name of a column or a table, sp_rename

To rename an object (table, store procedure, etc.):
SP_RENAME '[OldTableName]' , '[NewTableName]'

To rename a column:
SP_RENAME ‘TableName.[OldColumnName]' , ‘[NewColumnName]', 'COLUMN'

Listview Scroll event

2009-06-03T06:35:00.000-07:00

with great surprise I discovered that ListView control does not have the management of onScroll event, or at least something similar to handle the scroll.

To work around this problem we have to derive the ListView and create a personalized as in this example, then you can complete it according to your needs, however, simply get the events HorizontalScroll and VerticalScroll

Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports System.Drawing
Public Class ImprovedListView
Inherits ListView

Private WM_HSCROLL As Integer = &H114
Private WM_VSCROLL As Integer = &H115

Public Event HorizontalScroll ()
Public Event VerticalScroll()

Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As Message)
Select Case (m.Msg)
Case WM_VSCROLL
RaiseEvent VerticalScroll
Case WM_HSCROLL
RaiseEvent HorizontalScroll
End Select

MyBase.WndProc(m)
End Sub
End Class

Capturing images from the web with vb.net

2009-05-29T04:37:00.000-07:00

In vb.net you can capture any image from the web and add it for example to a Imagelist in order to reuse as desired in your application

Complete example :

Dim objImage As MemoryStream
Dim objwebClient As Net.WebClient
Dim sURL as string

Try
objwebClient = New Net.WebClient()
objImage = New MemoryStream(objwebClient.DownloadData(sURL))

imgList.Images.Add("imageName", Drawing.Image.FromStream(objImage))

Catch ex As Exception
End Try

the objImage store our image, the objwebClient is for the http connection. If the url given does not lead to any image will be raised an exception captured by catch block, you can manipulate it as required. If so, however the image will be included in our Imagelist.

Refresh View

2009-05-28T07:04:00.000-07:00

Working with applications that to alter the tables in the db there is often the problem to change the views in which the tables themselves are involved, this does not happen automatically.

Example, we have a view that takes in all fields of the table member (*), though in this table add or remove a column and you try to run the view we get an error, the quickest way to address and execute code via a refresh the view itself:

EXEC sp_refreshview viewName

simple but effective!

Methods Overloading

2009-05-27T01:50:00.000-07:00

In object programming (OOP) we can give the same name to multiple methods, provided that we have a different signature, a different set of arguments.

Methods Overloading

Class Calculator

Overloads Public Function Add(a As Integer, b As Integer) As Integer
Add = a + b
End Function

Overloads Public Function Add(a As Double, b As Double) As Double
Add = a + b
End Function

End Class

as you can see we have two methods with the same name 'Add', but with two different signatures, it accepts the first parameter 'a' and 'b' as a integer, the second as duoble.

to use two methods:

Dim counter As Calculator
counter = New Calculator()
' pass two integers
Console.WriteLine(counter.Add(1, 5))
' pass two doubles
Console.WriteLine(counter.Add(1.3, 5.9))

Key Down

2009-05-26T07:11:00.000-07:00

simple post for explaining how to catch the Enter button press when, for example, we are writing in a textbox:

First step
add to the textbox KeyDown event :

AddHandler txtBox.KeyDown, AddressOf checkKey

Second step
control the key, the keydown event expects an argument with KeyEventArgs, which among other things provides that we will use the KeyCode:

Private Sub checkKey(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs)
If e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then
.....
End If
End Sub

JavaScript Calendar

2009-05-25T06:49:00.001-07:00

If you are looking for a date picker in JavaScript perhaps this calendar is for you.

Here you can find files to download and instructions to include in your pages:

http://electricprism.com/aeron/calendar/

You can customize it in many ways, a feature that I found very interesting is the multi-calendar, have two or more calendars in sync, as trivial, you need to define the date of departure and return date, so it is easy to have several controls on due date without any effort

Row Number - Insert a column counter

2009-05-22T00:44:00.000-07:00

If in a query you want insert a column counter, with an incremental value, the T-Sql command ROW_NUMBER is for you. It was introduced since the release of Sql Server 2005, the complete syntax is as follows:

ROW_NUMBER ( ) OVER ( [ partition_by_clause] order_by_clause)

Partition By Clause
option used to partition the counter, if used type PARTITION BY nationality the meter will be grouped by nationality, further a concrete example

Order By Clause
in order_by_clause under clause must specify a sort, for example, ORDER BY ASC userName, in this case as a result we have a column with values increasing, if we use ORDER BY DESC userName have a column with values decreasing.

Example 1
We select people with Italian nationality:

SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY userID) as counter,userName,userCountry FROM users WHERE userCountry = 'Italia'

result:

counter	userName	userCountry
1	Antonio	Italia
2	Andrea	Italia
3	Davide	Italia
4	Stefano	Italia

Example 2
We select all users except the Spaniards, using a partition:

SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY userCountry ORDER BY userID) as counter,userName,userCountry FROM users WHERE userCountry <> 'Espana'

result :

counter	userName	userCountry
1	Antonio	Italia
2	Andrea	Italia
3	Davide	Italia
4	Stefano	Italia
1	Jean	France
2	Carlà	France
1	Dimitri	Russian
2	Svetlana	Russian
3	Karima	Russian

as you con see at change of nationality the counter restart from 1, this because we have indicated in the query to partition for the column userCountry

msdn reference : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186734.aspx

Stop IE6

2009-05-20T12:22:00.000-07:00

It is increasingly spreading in a network marketing to try to encourage Internet users to abandon the old and dying IE6 to go to the most recent and reliable browser, like FireFox 3, or the latest arrival of Microsoft IE8.

Type the following code in your pages, adapted the text of Waring at your convenience:



The reason are several, first of all for safety, since IE6 outdated, and then to support the new standard CSS and Ajax, unthinkable for a developer having to adapt your code again with old browsers such as IE6.

If you want to go into that here are some useful sites to visit:
http://www.stopie6.org/
http://www.stopie6.com/

Coalesce

2009-05-20T02:27:00.000-07:00

I realized that many developers ignore the existence of the T-Sql command COALESCE, which defined as "Returns the first non-null expression among its arguments."
Simple and practical example, consider the following query:

SELECT PhoneNumber FROM users WHERE userId = @userId

the phoneNumber may be also null, this could create problems in the code if not well managed, and to prevent problems, the query could be changed as follows:
SELECT COALESCE(PhoneNumber ,'') FROM users WHERE userId = @userId

if phoneNumber would be null the value returned is an empty string (''), which perhaps creates fewer problems in the code

The equivalent to COALESCE enter a query in our command Case:

SELECT
Case
when phoneNumber is null then ''
else phoneNumber
end
FROM users WHERE userId = @userId

Floppy Icon

2009-05-19T11:26:00.000-07:00

A few days ago I was cleaning and rummage among the old boxes full of junk, including various exhibits, I found dozens of floppy disks, some labels bear "Doom", "F14", "PMORPH, SOUND BLASTER" etc. .. I was willing to try, pity that my laptop to the desktop they are already fitted with the reader, I did take the melancholy in some content were also at the old projects!

However despite the disks have now abandoned the fall computing for several years, the floppy icons of (usually black or blue) continues to survive in a variety of programs for save data, I wonder whether, sooner or later be replaced by some other symbol ( usb memory stick? Hd?)

Thinking that the latest evolution of the most widely floppy, double-layer 3.5 "referred to as HD, published in 1987, had a capacity of up to 1.44 MB when you take into account that a modern USB stick easily uploads to 8 / 16 Gb, the comparison is unthinkable, it would take a suitcase full of floppy capacity to achieve this.

If you want to know more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

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