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new presentation style
Well, it’s a slow Monday morning, and instead of rushing into things, I figured I would enjoy a nice coffee and quickly learn something new. One of the things that has interested me lately are presentations. Using Microsoft PowerPoint as a starting tool, my presentations always need a narrator, someone to say the story behind each Read more
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Slingboards update
As you know, as a company, we are heavily invested in Slingboards-lab, a Montreal based startup where we hope to revolutionize collaboration using task boards. I wanted to link to a blog post form my partner, Mario Cardinal who wrote a nice update on where were on this product ! I hope it will capture Read more
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VPNs and hours on Windows Server 2012 R2
One of my clients needed a small file server that would provide vpn access for their workers. It’s not our usual business but, since we had a little history together, I figured we would do it. So we went out, bought a small computer, bought a copy of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and installed Read more
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Thread.Sleep, Events or BlockingCollection
I was going through some code to make it simpler and came upon a simple producer-subscriber problem. Multiple threads were pushing objects into a queue, and a single thread would dequeue them to perform the actual work. There was a lot of code, the code to lock the collection to make it thread safe and Read more
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A small wish list for Windows 8.2
Well, i do not know how the next version of Windows will be named, but here is my short wish list: Have a button in the photos app that is called “recursive slideshow”. My kids all the time want to look at pictures and get frustrated that they have to dig down into a folder Read more
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Apps for office presentation
Yesterday i presented at the “DotNetMontreal” user group and i had fun, why ? because a few people told me they liked the presentation and they could use such a technology at work to address certain aspects of their product or service. The presentation was an introduction to the new Apps for office technology, a new method Read more
