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  • Multiplicity with outlook.com

    On one of my teams we just hired a great tester. One of our objectives was to test using multiple email accounts and that can be a challenge when you consider the complexity of creating new Google or Outlook.com emails. That’s when i gave this quick trick… you can transform any valid hotmail address into Read more

  • My First Triumph using Google Docs

    Last week I had a simple problem – extract the text from a scanned pdf. The PDF was more like a container for the scanner’s image that it was a container for text that i could cut and paste. The solution – use an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to “read” the text off of the Read more

  • Visually Azure

    A fellow collegue of mine Alexandre Brisebois referred me to this website. It presents all of the different Azure products on a single slide, in a fully interactive manner. Enjoy ! Read more

  • A Holographic World

    I was at Microsoft Build a two years ago when they unveiled the Hololens I had the chance to see it and try it. I remember my business partner Mario Cardinal whispering to me during the keynote – this will change everything. As all good things, technology is a tool, it allows you to do Read more

  • Responsive web patterns

    As an architect, we often speak about software construction with patterns. Patterns are like recipes, instructions on how to fix a particular problem. The web as we know it today has only really been there 10-15 years. And technologies on the web change constantly. One of those newer technologies is called the responsive web, the Read more

  • Android and UWP – a thought of convergence ?

    Sometimes i dream about the future, what`s happening now ? how will things be tomorrow… I need to do this in order to stay current. Now here is a thought experiment – what if Android adopted .net core as it’s primary development platform. In reality, it would not take a long time to get .net Read more