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  • HTML5, offline pages and offline data

    One of the projects we just finished had two requirements (well, the third was it had to be a web site that ran on the iPad). The first one was for the web site to be able to display a lot of data in a quick manner, and that this data should be available offline. Read more

  • Quotes for growing teams

    Last week I attended a presentation by Bruce Gray (www.whymotivationmatters.com) and learned a few things which I though I could share here… The talk was about child development, but I think it can also apply to anybody and anytime… Neuroplasticity… we are not preprogrammed, we can develop new patterns in our brains with the good Read more

  • Blu Windows Phone

    Yesterday I was alerted to this blog post from one of my collegues, which completely redefines for me the fact that I have to pay 500$+ to get a Windows Phone in my pocket. This new phone by Blu is good looking, well equipped and available off contract in Canada for less than 100$. Next Read more

  • Sway

    As I was browsing through my news this morning, I discovered something quite nice. A new product by the Microsoft Office team called Sway. As you know, I have blogged a few times on different presentation styles as I endeavor to find a better way to present information, let it be reports, talks, or even Read more

  • MiniProfiler

    We were doing a little performance related work on a ASP.NET MVC website. There were a few pages where we transmitted a lot of unnecessary data (binding a big model to KendoUI if you don’t use the data is bad bad bad) and a few SQL n+1 scenarios… All in all, the performance was pretty Read more

  • Pizza as a PASS ?

    A colleague of mine posted this, slightly humorous comparison of how a SASS, PASS… compare to eating pizza. It also goes through a great description of what is available in each tier in Azure, Microsoft`s cloud offering. Enjoy ! Read more