For two years, and a half, I was a proud member of the Developer Platform Evangelist group (DPE) as a Technical Evangelist. During all that time, I shared with you the Open side of Microsoft. From the beginning till the end, I helped developers being successful on the Microsoft stack, changed their perception of the... Read more
Tag: #Life
Fred’s tees #10 – Why so serious?
It’s not because my name is Harper, that I need to like the Queen. It’s a known fact, in Quebec, we are not big fans of the monarchy, and I found a way to show my allegiance with this amazing tee from Threadless! At the end, it’s also a tribute to life, and the Joker who... Read more
What would happen if you died today?
What would happen if the Maya were right? What would happen if you died today? This question is good for all days of your life… Would you be proud of what you did? Would you be happy to leave the world as the person people know you right now? Would you feel you enjoy your... Read more
Take the time to live
I am busy. You are busy. We are busy. Everybody is busy. Maybe too much? It’s Mathieu Chartier, at the last HTML5mtl meetup, who made me aware of this: everybody is always busy, and it’s like a contest of who has been the busiest! We can say that this is the world we are living in... Read more
It’s not about them, it’s about you
Stop worrying about what others think of you. Stop caring about what people say about what you are doing. Stop being afraid to hear what people think about your clothes, the music you like, the books you read, the movies you watched… It’s not about them, it’s about you. Too often we look at ourselves... Read more
Hack your life challenge #7: take a break_
Now the real challenge of last week: take a break. The goal is really about spending time with your thoughts. Think about what to do, new ideas, priorities, new goals… Just taking some time, with yourself. I need to say that taking time with myself was something impossible in the past. I’m a social guy:... Read more
Hack your life challenge #4: set a happiness metric_
It’s not an error in the challenge number: I told you in the challenge #5, that I totally missed the #4, so I wanted to give my opinion about this one too. I’ll make a blog post about the one from last week, the #7, later this week. This challenge is about setting-up a happiness... Read more
Hack your life_
You know the feeling when someone has an awesome idea, and you say to yourself “damn, it’s such a good idea, why nobody had it before…” ? I had this exact feeling when Fabrice Calando share on Twitter is idea about a project named “Hack your life”. The concept is simple, but so powerful: one... Read more
Things I want to achieve in 2012_
I don’t like to call them resolutions, as this word has a negative meaning because so many people took some, and never do it during the new year. Let’s call this a list of things I want to accomplish, in no particular order, in 2012: I want to blog more Like I said a couple... Read more
Take 2012 as an opportunity_
A year is about to finish and another one to start. For most of us, it’s the time of the year where we take new year resolutions. It’s also the time of the year, where people wish you a lot of things like money, love, health… Personally, I’ll wish you only one thing: that 2012... Read more