Yazid's Blog

Why Fulbright Matters: A Subjective Account of Randomly Consistent Facts

Posted on June 10, 2017

Being the good old procrastinating developer who has 10 million ideas none of which is finished and most of which are not even started, I’ve been trying to write an article about the Fulbright program, my experience as a Fulbright scholar so far and some thoughts about its value. But... [Read More]

Tags: personal reflections

Software Maintenance and Evolution: Introduction to Organizational and Process Challenges

Posted on March 19, 2017

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Tags: software_engineering

Chaos Monkeys Team Logo

Posted on January 28, 2017

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 [Read More]

Tags: personal

What's wrong with the startup world, and the book that lays it down

Posted on January 4, 2017

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”. [Read More]

Tags: books

Quick update

Posted on December 22, 2016

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... [Read More]

Tags: personal

Tunisia's poet is dead

Posted on April 5, 2016

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... [Read More]

Tags: personal tunisia

De la place des étudiants dans le développement de l'université Tunisienne

Posted on March 1, 2016

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... [Read More]

Tags: reflections français tunisia

Statistics Of Server-Side Languages Used For Websites

Posted on January 20, 2016

While doing some research which would hopefully guide me through my current dilemma: “ASP MVC or Node.js?”, I found an interesting statistic here. [Read More]

Tags: software_engineering

La Fuite Des Cerveaux En Tunisie: Ce Grand Faux Problème, Ces Grandes Fausses Solutions

Posted on December 29, 2015

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... [Read More]

Tags: tunisia reflections illustrations français

Asynchronous Listener Simulation In .Net

Posted on December 29, 2015

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#... [Read More]

Tags: software_engineering