What type are you?
Not too long ago, I had a really interesting conversation with a former colleague of mine.In that conversation he made it clear that there were 3 types of people in the corporate world : Type A : the...
View ArticleTrendy scarfs.
I recently heard news of a close friend of mine starting her own small business. She's in her second year of university doing marketing and most surprisingly she's in Lebanon.I tried once to get...
View ArticleGlimmer of hope.
Not too long ago, I was coming back home from work and there was a bunch of teenagers (probably 3 years younger) in front of the entry to my building.One of them was sitting on the stoop, so excused...
View ArticleTaking my Christmas vacation!
I've recently had a lot of flashbacks, memories of when I first moved to Lebanon for my first year in university, memories of when I moved to France last year. All these big changes in my life were for...
View ArticleThrowing everything on the table.
I recently knew a couple that broke up and i was friends with both of them. So one friend asked me for help and advice, all I thought of was helping her take back control. What I wanted to do is make...
View ArticleIntroduction
Dear Readers, My first post is simply about why I want to blog. It is surely not to brag nor to set myself as an example, but more of a wanting-to-share-my-motivation blog. Throughout this blog you are...
View ArticleNothing happens overnight
I was always an average student in school, never had enough motivation to finish a homework, theory was just not my thing.The day after passing my baccalaureate, woke up asking my self : "Ok..What's...
View ArticleBest feedback or what?..
I've been getting a lot of good feedback on the blog, options are going to be added and the design might change (but not anytime soon). I thank you all for your ratings/ comments / feedback and...
View ArticleTaking up a challenge
I recently had an interesting challenge at work; without going into the details the main problem was a complex application deployment on the web server.There was an easy and quick way to deploy it by...
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Migrating your DotNetBlogEngine blog to Orchard
This post is designed for people that don’t want to modify the core or create plugins.I decided to move my blog after having read about John Papa’s blog migration. Orchard looks great and has been...
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WP7: Live tiles with Background agents.
The goal of this post is to show an example of how we could mix Background agents and Live tiles. (I’ll talk about ShellTileScheduler limitations later on and why it would be interesting to use a...
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Imagine cup 2011: Behind the scenes of the MyHealth team
The fifth of May wasn’t like any normal day; we had to wake up at 4 am, of course having slept at 1:30 because of stress mixed with excitement.As soon as the alarm rang, I got up with the feeling I...
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Failing is learning
Being 22, involves less responsibilities and risks; though what you do while being in your twenties will mostly affect the rest of your life.Around a year and a half ago I started Mobholic, was pretty...
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University project codenamed 'MindDrone'
As part of a lab project in university; I had the pleasure to work on the Kinect, Mindset and AR Drone.The goal was to build an application that uses all 3 together.Using the Mindset headset; we have...
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Deed Day : Follow up
I started Deed Day last year, for the “Pitch your app” competition, and then continued with it for the Imagine Cup 2011 Windows Phone 7 challenge.Sadly since the imagine cup finals the team hasn’t had...
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HP Touchpad: the future of webOS ?
It’s remarkable, no one expected for the HP Touchpads to sell that fast after the annoucement and the price cut(not even HP ).Let’s be honest, the hardware sucked on the touchpad; but webOS…is very...
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async, await and bit of windows phone.
First off let me start by saying the async framework isn’t destined to make you not want to use Reactive Extensions or a bunch of your own helpers … async framework was written with the purpose of...
View ArticleStartup time: kwixer
For the first time in my life; I’m taking a huge risk career wise, a risk that I’m barely feeling because of the adrenaline numbness!A month from now I’ll be launching a startup with my friend and...
View ArticleTools and tips.
We’re 2 developers working on kwixer; while focusing on the main stuff like building the mobile app, server side api, presentations, documents and administrative stuff; we haven’t got much time to...
View ArticleWhy Canada
Many of you, specially the ones following us on Facebook, have been asking why did you move to Canada ? ("you" as in Rodrigue- one of the founders of Kwixer)One of the difficulties French startup have...
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