Category Archives: Experiment

The lean startup – book notes

The lean startup by Eric Ries is a very interesting book about creating a successful business. It’s really a great read even if you are not working in a startup. Actually most large company moved away from previous development processes that didn’t adapt well to the new technologies. In today world, we ship software daily, sometimes… Read More »

Introduction to Machine Learning, from data acquisition to a production service

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 »

Facebook SDK 4.0.0 for PHP: A working sample to manage sessions

  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 »

The week in search advertising 3/15/2014

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 »

Strategy for ads placement with Infinite Scroll (WordPress)

Some high profile website (Facebook, Linkedin) have enable infinite scroll (automatically displays following pages when the user scroll down) on their pages. This is mostly because infinite scroll is supposed to increase user stickiness to a site. One obvious problem with infinite scroll is that the ad placement needs to be updated. Without infinite scroll… Read More »

Windows Azure – Virtual server – Enable TCP connection (open the door to Internet traffic)

I finally created an account for Windows Azure, it is quite easy to do so and the cost are very affordable (if you have a MSDN premium subscription as each Microsoft employee does :)). I never really had the opportunity learning in-depth IIS and ASP.net so now that I have this server available, I am starting! The… Read More »

Adobe Media Player prerelease

News from the Labs: This is a prerelease version of Adobe® Media Player™ (AMP) software for Windows and Macintosh platforms. It is being made available for consumers to test the user experience, and for content publishers to test the compatibility of their existing Media RSS feeds with Flash-based video content. You will also notice a… Read More »