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Tungle Launches Its iPhone App at DEMOfall 09

25 September 2009 / 0 Comments

For the past couple of months, we’ve been very busy at WhereCloud, working closely with the Tungle team to deliver this iPhone app for their innovative scheduling service. Watch Marc Gingras (CEO of Tungle) demonstrate the app at DEMOfall09. “Rumble your Tungle.” Read more, Shake Tungle’s iPhone App to Find the Best Meeting Time venturebeat.com [...]

Conversation with an iPhone

20 June 2009 / 0 Comments

With the new iPhone 3GS comes a smart voice control system to ask you iPhone to do some basic tasks. At first I though it was a pretty much useless feature, but actually I’m using it more and more; not having to get your phone from your pocket while your walking is very comfortable. So, [...]

Internet Tethering with iPhone OS 3.0

9 June 2009 / 0 Comments

Being certified iPhone developers we had access to the Gold Master (GM) version of iPhone OS 3.0. And one of the featured we wanted to try right away was Internet Tethering. Despite some problems activating the features after having restored the iPhone to 3.0 — we called Rogers to see if it was on their [...]

NVIDIA Killed My MacBook Pro

23 February 2009 / 4 Comments

I’m out of luck. This week-end my MacBook Pro died of the insidious NVIDIA bug plaguing all machines manufactured between May 2007 and September 2008. Quoting the Apple support page about the issue: In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging [...]

Refactoring Yourself Out of Business

4 February 2009 / 0 Comments

Eric Ries on when you should refactor and when you should not: Here’s a company I met with recently. They have a product that has a moderate number of customers [...] The engineering team has decided it’s reached a breaking point, and is taking several weeks to bring it [code] up to modern standards, including [...]

Best Wishes for 2009

3 January 2009 / 5 Comments

2008 was a great year. It’s been a pleasure to be in Montreal and part of one of the fastest growing tech community. We had tons of exciting conferences and gatherings, more than I could expect. I met incredible people and made new friends. 2008 saw the growth of next-gen mobile platforms with the iPhone [...]

Best Wishes for 2008

2 January 2008 / 0 Comments

2007 was a very exciting year — I moved to Montreal, started a new job, discovered whole new things, launched some projects, met new people and new communities. I’d like to thanks all the people I’ve met this year and I wish everybody the best for 2008.

Happy New Year 07

1 January 2007 / 0 Comments

I wish you all the best for 2007! My previous article ended the year with a pessimistic note, but make no mistake about it, 2006 was a good year with its opportunites. 2007 will be a great and exciting year!

Happy New Year 06

1 January 2006 / 0 Comments

May the coming year be rich in opportunities and great events! Best wishes for 2006!

End of 2005

31 December 2005 / 0 Comments

Tonite, 2005 ends. As usual, it’s time to look back. When I check my blog archives, I say to myself “man, you should have written a lot more”. Actually, I had the same feeling one year before, I’ve put off many good articles about guesses that became true. One good thing is that I keep [...]