Software Maintenance and Evolution: Introduction to Organizational and Process Challenges
Chaos Monkeys Team Logo
Starting my MSIT Studio project for the masters program I am attending at Carnegie Mellon University, I made this logo suggestion to my team and they vali
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What's wrong with the startup world, and the book that lays it down
I have had the chance to read, over the last couple of months (mostly in the last 21 days, since CMU homework consumed the rest of that period) Dan Lyon’s book “Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble”.
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Quick update
This year started with me working on web development/windows 8 development projects for Sopra Steria, and is ending with me finishing my Software Engineering Master’s first semester at Carnegie Mellon University (I repeat: Carnegie, Mellon, University. Even I still get that tingle from the name, and can’t quite believe it...
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Tunisia's poet is dead
Today Mohamed Sghaier Ouled Ahmed died after a long battle with cancer. I won’t tell you how he lived, I’ll just remember him through a poem he wrote in 1998, a poem I learned in school and still remember to this day, as do several of my countrymen, a poem...
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De la place des étudiants dans le développement de l'université Tunisienne
Par la tradition et la convention, et à quelques exceptions près , l’université Tunisienne fonctionne selon un système qui marque une rupture radicale de mentalités entre les étudiants et leurs enseignants. Certes, selon les narratives “d’excellence” et autres illusions et sophismes, l’université Tunisienne est une école de savoir, de savoir-faire...
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Statistics Of Server-Side Languages Used For Websites
While doing some research which would hopefully guide me through my current dilemma: “ASP MVC or Node.js?”, I found an interesting statistic here.
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La Fuite Des Cerveaux En Tunisie: Ce Grand Faux Problème, Ces Grandes Fausses Solutions
Ce sujet n’a cessé de revenir sur la scène nationale. Il me touche personnellement car j’ai été des deux côtés de l’équation que ce problème pose, et parce que dans mon cercle social ce débat revient fréquemment avec des amis expatriés ou qui cherchent à s’installer à l’étranger. Il est...
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Asynchronous Listener Simulation In .Net
Today I had a discussion about how one would implement a program that listens to some input (typically in a high frequency text message scenario), stores that input and asynchronously consumes elements from the message queue with some business logic behind the consumption. This program would be implemented in C#...
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Baby Boomer, X, Y, Millennial. Seriously?
I’m sure you encountered these terms multiple times in the last few years, in a time when the cultural transition from the old suit-and-tie business culture to the jeans-and-tee-shirt type business, from Steve Ballmer to Satya Nadella, from Blackberry to Adnroid was happening. You know, the general agilization of things,...
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