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  • The Lenovo Yoga 900

    Every 3-4 years I upgrade my laptop. This time I chose to try a Lenovo Yoga 900. It is light and beautiful and packs a 2.5 ghz i7 processor and 16 gigs of ram. My initial impressions are positive. The screen’s hinge works well, it feels solid and I like the look. The things I Read more

  • Windows 10 devices

    Well, my 3 year old Samsung laptop is starting to give up on me; the keyboard is dying and the hdmi plug is no more… But there is a bright side, I gest to spend some money on a new shiny machine, as you can see in this link ! p.s. I am particularly interested Read more

  • Agile Evaluation

    I’ve heard a lot of people who do agile evaluations. The first thing they do is often evaluate the process that a team is following and how close they are following the scrum process. The idea is to get away from “scrum but”, which is basically, we are a scrum team and do this and Read more

  • AppHooks

    Wow, i was digging around this morning and took some time to learn about WebHooks, and especially the fact that they have Microsoft provided support with the new ASP.NET 5 stack coming out soon. Basically, WebHooks is a peer to peer integration model based on HTTP and loose messages. In other words, one system (think Read more

  • Windows 10 upgrade

    This morning the HP Spectre (great machine by the way) I got at the last Microsoft Build conference and gave to my wife did it’s upgrade to Windows 10. The upgrade went very quickly, smoothly and on first boot, it was fully patched (wow !). All the apps she had were there, I just have Read more

  • Better productivity – Windows 10 shortcuts

    A friend of mine just posted something I just realized I needed to know… A few Windows 10 shortcuts to be more efficient. I use the multiple desktop feature a lot, and now I can switch easily with the keyboard… Here is a resume taken from his blog entry : Windows 10 Shortcuts Snapping window: Read more