Category Archives: Microsoft

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 »

How to make things happen – some tactics

This post is the last one of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, schedules, not to annoy people, specification, how to improve your communication and about the middle game strategy… Read More »

Middle game strategy – handling your project on the right direction

This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, schedules, not to annoy people, specification and how to improve your communication. The middle game strategy refer to… Read More »

How to change a service startup type with PowerShell

Changing a service startup type can be crucial after installing or configuring the service. PowerShell comes with an easy way to do so: Set-Service –Name theservice –Computer thecomputer –StartupType “selectedType” Where selectedType value can be: Automatic Manual Disabled Unfortunately, there is no support for the automatic (delayed start). To support the automatic (delayed start), you… Read More »

How to start or stop a remote service with PowerShell

An easy trick but often helpful in need of automation. I recently noticed that it was not possible to do: Start-Service –Name theservice –Computer thecomputer Instead we have to follow this rather ugly way: (Get-WmiObject -computerName thecomputer Win32_Service -Filter “Name=’theservice'”).StartService() To stop the service, same idea: (Get-WmiObject -computerName thecomputer Win32_Service -Filter “Name=’theservice'”).StopService()   0 Kudos… Read More »

Composition of a specification

This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, schedules, and about not to annoy people. Today’s diagram is about the composition of a specification. A specification… Read More »

How not to annoy people: emails, processes, and meetings

This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, and about schedules. I believe all point are pretty straight forward to understand on this topic. My key… 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 »

One year anniversary in Seattle

1 year already that we (my family and I) moved to the Pacific Northwest area, specifically in Seattle area (we are actually in a suburban neighborhood called Kirkland). The adaptation to this new place is going smoothly, the mentality is quite similar to the one we were used to in Switzerland but friendlier so we… Read More »