Christophe LUCAIN

Since I started back studying (1 sep 2008), I realised that the level of study in France was so high (at least for me). Even though I prepared a French diploma in Mauritius, it’s difficult to keep up with the “pure” French grammar. As a matter of fact, French have a tendency to complicate things . It may sound like nonsense, but it’s the sole truth. Let’s take an example…

I have a module called “Modélisation et Outils pour le Traitement de Signal”. The literal translation in English for this module would be “Tools for Modelling and Signal Processing”. Enough blablabla, let’s come the the point. In an exercise, it was asked to calculate density to find something…and the term they used for density was “Masse volumétrique“, that is volumetric mass. People who have a minimum of physics knowledge would guess that the question referred to density…So, why used volumetric mass instead of density then ??

This was an easy example, and there are many that are more difficult to read through, unless you’re French.
That’s not all…as I have always mentioned that I am lazy…but I did not say that I loved having fun. Students in France love to party, and me too. I noticed that during these 2months, I spent most of my time having fun, even in class

So it’s about time for me to wake up as the “partiels” ooops exams are approaching, otherwise failure is guaranteed !!! In addition, during the first evaluations, in had 8.5/20 in MATLAB, 10/20 in stats…and that’s no good news !!! I don’t want to fail, I don’t want to learn…sometimes I just sit and ask myself what am I longing for..and still no answer.

Well people, I’m fed up writing. I you want to help me, some comments would definitively be appreciated (OooO oui !!!)

Thanks in advance

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June+July+August+September+October+November = 6. “Putain de merde !!!” would say a French guy I guess it makes so long… so much things justifying my absence happened since.
I’m not gonna tell you the story of life(It’s too boring), but just a lines.
First, lazy guy that I am that I am kept my away from blogging. As you may know, I was none of a regular blogger…
Since all that time, I stopped working as web developer to pursue further studies in France. Continue studying after such a long break kinda difficult…and on top, studying in French is somewhat troublesome, although for a guy like me
During that time, I don’t know what happened to my blog, it kept telling me that there was an error in establishing a database connection….how troublesome !
I decided to abandon it for I had no means, and no time to solve the problem. But now it’s good again by itself, and I’m still wondering what might have happened.
Anyways, this lapse of time without blogging caused so much harm to my blog.

• I lost much alexa ranking
• Ii dunno what happened to my entrecard credits
• I lost online reputation
• I am no longer ranked #1 for my name on google

Now realising that all I have to reconstruct all from the beginning makes me sick
But now I’m determined to raise my blog among the top 300,000 in alexa.
Hope you had a nice reading !!!

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Hi Everyone,

Please excuse me for the lateness of this post. The contest ended on 10th june, but I had no time to write a post to announce the winners.

So, I have the great pleasure to announce the results:

1. Rihanne (http://riyanneunleashed.blogspot.com )
2. danandmarsh (http://giveawaycity.blogspot.com)
3. Mia (http://thatblog4me.blogspot.com)

The other participants were
• Seocontest2008 (http://seocontest2008.vincentlecluse.com)
• Seo secrets (http://allseosecrets.blogspot.com)

All winner should send me an email with their entrecard url for verification purposes and for credit payment.

As promised, you are all rewarded a link love

I thank everyone who participated. Although there were not many participants, I was very pleased with your posts, comments and responses.

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Hum Hum…
I am proud to announce that I am organizing my first contest ever. In fact, there was a real need for me to organize a contest since all of my friends have already organized one.
Well, the contest is very simple indeed.

First, let’s talk about the prizes :
1st : 900 EC’s
2nd : 400 EC’s
3rd : 200 EC’s
N.B Besides the 3 prizes, all the participants will be rewarded a link on a special post about the contest.

Now, let’s see the rules:

1. Write a recommendation about my blog including a link to this post(To write on your blog)
2. Leave a comment below (To validate your participation) Please note that only one comment per person will be taken into consideration
3. Add my Blog to your favorites on entrecard. Be sure to let me know in the comments below if you have added me to your favorites!

N.B:I reserve the right to discard your entry if your blog is spammy,adult content etc.

Now, let’s see how I will determine the winner…
I will use random.org integer generator to determine the 3 winners.(First number corresponding to 1st prize, second number => second prize etc..)

This contest will end on the 9th June 2008 @ 23h00 MUT (Mauritian Time) and is open for everyone in the world having an entrecard a/c.

GOOD LUCK

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Which is the best design tool for building your website?
Some would say dreamweaver, some would say Expression Web….but It really depends on what you intend to do, and which scripting language you will use as support.
I have dressed a list to illustrate the pros and cons of each tool.

DREAMWEAVER

• Is dominating the market, and is accepted as a standard
• Supports ASP, PHP, JSP and CMF
• Support for mactintosh
• Integrates with Flash and Fireworks features
• Bug free (almost)
• Supplies interesting templates
• Is integrated with Photoshop and Flash

EXPRESSION WEB

• Easy to learn
• Does not allow bad tags/codes
• Excellent Support for CSS
• Good support of ASP.NET
• “Light” in terms of memory usage
• 2.0 version support PHP

Now let’s see the cons of both tool’s

DREAMWEAVER

• Does not support ASP.NET2.0
• Almost difficult to learn
• Support for mactintosh
• CSS and HTML errors have to be found manually
• Does not integrate well with other programs
• Expensive !!!

EXPRESSION WEB

• Few templates available
• Bad reputation (Since it is a microsoft product)
• No dynamic script templates, like Blogs, CMC, BB.

Personnaly, I prefer dreamweaver, but EW is worth a try…
Please feel free to give me your feedback !!!

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I am pround to announce that I won 2000 entrecard credits!
A contest was organised by vincent lecluse with the collaboration of unconventional marketing. The results of the contest is as follows:
1st : Christophe
2nd: danandmarsh
3rd: Louis Liem
This contest ended April 5th
Thanks a lot vincent…

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After being desperate with my blog yesterday, I finally picked up some courage to blog. After reading posts on other blogs, I came across stuffs which made me realize that blogging is worth. So, I am about to monetize my blog, but before doing so, I should have a good alexa traffic rank and a good google pagerank.

I heard that in order to get good PageRank, a site (or blog whatever) should have valuable content and lots of backlinks. Well, I don’t have these yet…so I am actually targeting traffic rank from alexa.

So, to get traffic rank, there should be lots of visitors visiting my site everyday…I do think that targeting traffic would be much easier for me.

Today I discovered something exciting and interesting on how to boost my traffic rank. That thing is Entrecard. I know that I am a bit late about it, so don’t pff me. I came across it on the vincentlecluse.com

An entrecard is some sort of ad that you can place on blogs that possess Entrecard. The more you have your ads on sites, the more it will generate traffic. However, you should have credit in order to advertise.

There are many ways to earn credit:

• The easiest one is to ‘drop’ Entrecards
• Your Entrecard being dropped
• participate in contests that offer credit

Considering these options, I’ve done all, but I came on an easy contest on this blog.All you have to do is to read the instructions and full-fill the requirements.

So, for the sake of this contest, I am putting those two links on this post

seocontest2008, Unconventional Marketing

See this chain reaction : Earning credit will help you to advertise on other blogs => When you advertise on other blogs, you get traffic, and credits from those who drop you => When you get traffic, your ranking increases => when your ranking increases, your blog becomes valuable.

To learn more on entrecard, just click here, and if you wish to participate in the contest, click here!

Good Luck

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Finally a new post…yes yes.
Makes long time since I haven’t written anything on my blog. The truth is that I was short of ideas, and I’m still. Before having my blog, I thought blogging was something easy, but now I think contrarily. IT’s DIFFICULT! Yes, that’s true.

Blogging require much time from the blogger, and the latter should be a good writer to makes posts interesting to read…and on top, he should be good in english.
Ohh English…what a troublesome language.

I have some friends possessing blogs too, and I see how much they are dedicated to it. Their blogs are doing so well, but why mine not?
If they can, why can’t I?

I do have much time on my hand after my working time and though I don’t find time to blog…
In such a situation, I think it’s time for me to abandon blogging…unless you encourage me.
If in the coming days I don’t have interesting comments to post, I’ll just give up…

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Have you ever heard of beryl ? Or would I say : Have you ever seen beryl? You should be asking yourselves : “what is the beryl this guy is talking about ? ”

This post is intended mostly intended for linux resisters.

As you may know, most of the population use windows (XP, Vista…whatever) as operating system. But why? Knowing that there are other platforms even better, and on top free, how come windows is still the most popular OS ?? A rather difficult question..but I guess I can have different answers from each of you.

Personally, I do think that windows is very popular because compared to most linux GUI, it is more user friendly…and compared to MAC’s, it’s more affordable. (Talking about the prices)

But what would happen if one day the price of windows OS doubled or trippled? What would you do? Ahh…am sure that most of you be traumatized

Would you choose a linux as OS ? If your answer to this question is no, I advise you to fasten your seat belts and open wide your eyes…

Amazing huh? Enjoy ! Looking for your feedback !

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Well, as you noticed, the title of my tagline is coding for survival. For those who ask themselves why, well the answer is simple. I am actually working as web developer. All I do the whole day is coding coding and coding…

The truth is that I love coding. During my scholarship, I was fond of programming languages such as PHP, JAVA, C# etc.. ( The list is long  ) The only thing which motivated me was challenge. Everyday I woke up and told myself that I should become better than I was yesterday…And this motto helped me to progress.

Unfortunately, now it seems that I have lost the motivation I had once. Maybe because I have no challenging projects to do at work…Maybe I grown up lazy…who knows !?!

Can anyone advise me?

Anyways, we’ll see what happens later…or I shoud rather say that I will see what happens to me. Hope you wish me luck

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