I’m generally a huge fan of security features, as long as they don’t go in my way. Today, the PS execution policy actually came in my way, so a quick way to remove it is here: Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser Use it at your own risk, this will remove the execution policy security for… Read More »
In September 2012, I joined the Bing Ads team, working on the delivery engine, where I had a blast! Working on an online system, with such a massive scale (Bing is now serving 20% of all US search queries) and with so high expectation (latency, availability, …) really made the journey a thrill. I learned a… Read More »
As an engineer we often get approached by a PM, or other teams members, for features, update in requirements, or any other changes. Some change will sounds really exciting, either because they are intellectually challenging or because their outcome looks obviously great. However, before getting too excited there a few questions we can ask that will… Read More »
Short before the holiday break, I watched a video titled “happiness as a competitive advantage” where Shawn Achor talk about happiness and how it can help to be more successful at work. I obviously like being happy and I have a pretty competitive mindset, so I really enjoyed the talk. Something really struck me, he… Read More »
At the time I was a soldier in the Swiss army (nearly every men in Switzerland have to do its time for a few months), my lieutenant asked me to organize the team so we would set up the trenches for the night. He told me that he wanted to give me the taste of… Read More »
Just before the thanksgiving break, I attended to a book club event (internal to Bing) and Scott Berkun advised to read the book “How to lie with statistics”. I decided to use the thanksgiving break time to read it. Written by Darrell Huff in 1954, the book was extremely refreshing (the tone used in the… Read More »
One of the tricky question for a software engineer is to estimate when his code will be ready. It is a tricky question because ‘ready’ is generally not well defined. Ready can mean a lot of different things, depending to whom you ask. The developer might assume having his code working and tested, the program… Read More »
In this post I want to share some notions of machine learning and a how-to get started with Microsoft Azure ML studio. Machine learning is a quite complex topic, especially if you want to understand the theory and algorithms that are behind it. If you want to go deeper in understanding ML I would encourage… Read More »
We all experienced change in our life. Whether small, like moving to a new home, or larger, like changing job or moving to a new country, it always comes with a fair amount of stress. I believe that the stress associated with change is coming from all the uncertainty that change triggers (I’m not a… Read More »
I loved this book, career superpowers: succeeding on purpose by James Whittaker. It is refreshing to strategically think about your career and to feel in control. The author breaks down the career superpowers in 8 attributes: ambition, passion, specialization, storytelling, imitation, derivation, creativity, and leadership. Ambition Ambition sets the bar for you career, you increase… Read More »
Once you have a working sample of Facebook SDK 4.0.0 for PHP, you will notice upon refreshing the page an error: Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Facebook\FacebookAuthorizationException’ with message ‘This authorization code has expired.’ Well, this is quite annoying as it breaks the user navigation on your site. To get around this issue, record the… Read More »
I downloaded the new Facebook SDK 4.0.0, hoping to have a quick sample running. Instead, I had to scratch my head for nearly 1 hour before having a working sample. Not really a great experience (‘thanks’ Facebook for the great getting started document)! Now at least I got it working, so I’m sharing some information… Read More »
I had to use a tool today that gave me a frustrating error: “your csv file have more than a 1000 rows”. I had multiple CSVs that had more than 1000’s of rows actually, so splitting it manually would have been a total waste of time and sanity. That’s where PowerShell came in handy. As… Read More »
Episode #3 of the weekly review of search adverting! Covering the week ending on 3/15/2014. Native Ads are not engaging readers Some data shows that native ads are not getting as much attention from the visitors This can be somewhat improved if the ad creative is of good quality Source: marketing land Twitter experiment on… Read More »
I’m slightly increasing the scope of this series to capture a larger part of the online advertising (instead of focusing on search advertising only). Focusing on mobile is solving yesterday’s problems The focus should now be on ads that work across multiple screens Focusing on reach is where we are trending today Source: Forbes 8… Read More »