• Glastonbury 2011

    Another year, another Glastonbury!!! And as always, it didn’t disappoint. This year it was a different experience for me but it was still a lot of fun! 🙂 It was the first Glastonbury since 2004 that I didn’t experience on my own. Mary was with me, which meant that camping with a small tent, no…

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  • Implementing an Actor in C# with Task Continuations

    We are having fun at work with some investigation work in the NoSQL space. We’ve been playing with actors in our distributed system. There has been a lot of prior work in this space so we are not really doing anything new with actors but it’s still fun. Scala, F#, Erlang, and many others have…

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  • New challenge

    It was more than 18 months that I moved to the Technical Computing organization inside Microsoft. I had joined a startup team that worked on building a platform for large-scale compute and data processing on top of Azure. It was an amazing experience. We worked hard, produce great results, and learnt a lot. I met…

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  • “It’s up to us to write what happens next… together”

    I hadn’t come across the “HOME” movie before. I watched it earlier today. Our home, the planet that we call Earth, deserves at least 1 1/2h of our time. Please please please watch this movie in its entirety!!! The cinematography is spectacular; the narration really beautiful; the conveyed message powerful, inspiring, moving. Make sure you…

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  • Squaw Valley skiing weekend

    The last weekend of January I traveled to California to meet with Jim and Emil for a weekend of skiing at Squaw Valley. We were treated with an excellent weather on Saturday and amazing new 20-30cm snow on Sunday. Soooooo much fun! I hadn’t seen my pal Jim for a long time so I really…

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  • “The Joy of Stats”

    Happy New Year everyone! The first blog entry of 2011 is about an 1-hour BBC documentary on the “Joy of Stats” (video on YouTube) with Hans Rosling as the presenter. Hans Rosling is a great inspiration to me. He always talks about the power of data and its analysis, a subject about which I care…

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  • “REST in Practice” in top 5 🙂

    This is cool. O’Reilly had an ebook promotion for cyber-Monday here in the US. “REST in Practice” did very well. It was the fifth best-selling title 🙂 Tim O’Reilly published a blog entry about the top selling books. Not bad! 🙂 If you have read the book and would like to share your views with…

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  • Diplomacy 2.0?

    I feel that I need to express my opinion on the recent Wikileaks-related events. I know that many of my friends or those who follow my thoughts on the Web might not agree with me but I always believe that it’s healthy to have a difference in opinions since it makes for interesting conversations 🙂…

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  • Isn’t automation supposed to help us do things faster?

    I am a technologist. I am a geek. I know that. I make use of all sorts of gadgets or read about them. I try to follow all the latest developments. I read books to educate myself about new things. At work and at my free time I try to generate new technology. Technology is…

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  • Zentity v2.0

    Ahhhh! One of my “children” is growing up and maturing! I am so proud of the team over at Microsoft’s External Research. They have done an amazing job with Zentity. The new version packs a great set of cool new features, building on the extensible nature of the graph store which is at its heart.…

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