I’ve always wanted to try out windows live writer, when you want to install windows live messenger, it always asks you if you want to install it, and I finally did.

I find it awesome.

It detects your blog’s settings on its own!

Not only it works on .NET platforms like SharePoint and more; but also works on none .NET applications like WordPress, Drupal and others.

With Windows Azure’s buzz and innovative technologies seeing daylight every minute, following everything is such a hard task, specially making up the time to learn these new things.

But I try my best!.

Coming to think of it, Microsoft’s impact on technology is gigantic, not forgetting Google’s impact, I hope that one day I can participate and be part of these enormous impacts in technology!

I bought once a lottery ticket with my friends for fun; we had the usual conversation topic everyone probably has when first buying a lottery ticket :

What would you do with 1 million Euros?

Give it to my parents, stay in school and finish my studies?
Invest in myself, build a company from scratch?
Spend like crazy, and end up with no money in a couple of months?
Give half to charity?
Put everything in a bank and live off the interest?
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I can keep asking these questions, daydream about it and waste time, OR i can start getting ideas, innovating and work on getting 1 million euros!

As a young developer, I encounter almost every day a new technology, a new way of doing things.
Some might be good, some might be bad.
But there will always be people hammering negatively that new thing, not because it’s not good, or it doesn’t fit specific needs but because THEY’RE AFRAID OF CHANGE.
We all know these same people will defend that new change later on, and the routine of criticism will go on the newest things.
I for one fell a lot for it and might still do, but will do my best not to.

Embrace change!

Dear readers, a couple of months ago I was fortunate enough to meet Emma, a Canadian woman that came to France to improve her French while studying literature (I know.. isn’t that boring?!..Joking!)
I had a lot of interesting conversations and moments with her, we talked about almost everything, and had a lot of different points of view, which always made for a good discussion.
Why am I talking about Emma right now? Well Emma was nice enough to correct all the spelling / grammar mistakes I did since I started this blog, and she did a fine job of it!
And not once did she make me change my writing style, just made me improve it.
This will be the last post she has to correct. (She’s probably jumping around right now!)
Thanks Emma.
I’ll miss you and Nice will miss you!

Since I'm thanking someone that helped around for the blog, I'd like to thank the people who are also an inspiration ;)

A couple of days ago, something shocking happened to one of my neighbors that got me worrying a lot.
It actually got me thinking about my own life and took me on a bit of a down phase for the rest of the morning.
And then a friend who has this career path I envy, told me: “If you thought about all the things that could happen to you, there would be no reason to sleep at night.”
Come to think of it reading these words (Yes while chatting and they were in French) were a wake up call from the horrible day I was having.
Each one of us might have certain problems or flaws, you might deal with them directly or avoid them as long as it’s working for you, whatever the choice or path you choose, pick the one that will keep you going and give you a reason to keep on climbing tomorrow.

For the ones who feel the need to know more about what really happened etc...There’s a reason why I didn’t develop that part and that’s just details, don’t miss the main point!

I had a design crave last night to change my blog’s layout. What started as a design change, resulted in a complete web hosting change resulting in the blog being down for around 12 hours and is still down for a couple of people (for maximum 5 days).
As the blog received, last month, a little bit more than 2000 visits, I thought I might as well make my blog more interactive (cool features will be added soon).
I was even going to change my blogging engine but ended up keeping this one but updating it.
I could have used Wordpress (like everyone else) but this one is in .NET and really “HOT” to use.
I find it simple to use and really well coded, the only thing that’s missing is the community behind.
Community these days, makes an important role of a project, they can bring new extensions and themes and add a lot of interaction to the project.
I have the default theme put on right now (I did some small modifications though).

The blog engine is powered by BlogEngine.NET (http://www.dotnetblogengine)
and the theme is made by Mads Kristensen (founder of the engine).

I've been in front of my screen for around 12 hours since this morning now and it’s not unusual to pull a 15 or 16 hour day on my computer.
My will to make something out of myself, to keep making it happen and to climb to the top obligates me as a computer science fellow to be glued on my computer all day long.
Come to think of it, about 2 years ago I had this terrible headache and my eyes would feel dry when sitting on the computer for more than a few hours (and even then my parents would ask me to shut the computer off).
I finished all my tasks for today, tomorrow is another day with new challenges.
I’m going to do something different, something I’d advise people to do the same to clear their minds (although I barely do): I'm going to take a walk.

I watched a documentary called "The Corporation" two days ago.
One of the things the documentary made a point about was how big corporations have more power than anyone could imagine, how they manipulate people, how they use people and how they are somehow destroying our planet.
One phrase that chocked me: "In devastation there's opportunity".
These corporations have gotten to the top with the philosophy "HOW TO MAKE THE MAXIMUM PROFIT" regardless of how this profit is made; even if in the process 30 000 people are harmed, even if they backup a war.
At the end of the movie, Michael More says something like (I don't remember the exact words): "They're expecting people to watch this movie, keep sitting on the couch and do nothing..."
As a 20 year old student, I don't see much more to do then write a post about this and talk about it to my friends,
At least that’s a start...

Here's the trailer of "The corporation”:

I recently had Windows Server 2008 classes, I found them really interesting, as it might improve my knowledge base. As a result, I decided to get at least one Microsoft Windows Server Certification as a challenge this year.

I've always been and still am, more of a developer type of guy. I'm also fortunate enough to be in SUPINFO, a top international school which additionally enables highly motivated and talented students to pass Microsoft Certifications for free.
Consequently, I've decided not to limit myself, developing is certainly MY THING, but for my own benefit, I should certainly want to add Server Administration on my "SKILLS" list.

By doing so, one manages to broaden his horizons and eventually be at the forefront of innovation in the industry.