Author: Marc Olivier Meunier

Marc has spent the past few years putting oil on the fire of a hyper growth ad tech company. At Smartly.io he was in charge of scaling the support and its culture. At Eficode he is now leading an engineering team and running operations. He leads by example and puts a lot of emphasis on diversity and inclusion, constantly working to create a safe environment. A warm leader with a passion for memorable experiences and innovation.
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how to speed up social network badge loading

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I have had some problem with my Tripit badge on the left of the screen. For some strange reason it wouldn’t load on my Google Chrome. It would load if I would open this page with Firefox or IE though. The weirdest thing is that after loading it from Firefox or IE, I could then load it with Chrome. 

So I decided I would take a different approach and cache the badge somewhere.

Here is how to do it:
First get the URL of the javascript file of your badge.

Here is the code of my badge:

My favorite android apps

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Touch Calendar: widget that lets you see 6 weeks of events on google calendar
TuneIn Radio Pro: very good online radio player
Wunderlist: to do list
Tripit: traveler helper
Trapster: drive safely by knowing in advance where are the traps and accidents or road works ahead.

New ADM3 FM module

Reading Time: < 1 minute This summer I finished a partial rewrite of the FM (Fault Management) module of the NetAct OSS ADM3 Troubleshooting class.
I have been compiling lots of troubleshooting guides and troubleshooting techniques into this course and applied it to all the FM processes of a regional cluster.

It has now been tried several times and it seems people are liking it.
If you want to follow this course, contact your local NSN solution manager or go to the academy website if you’re an NSN internal and enroll for the course OS9033 (customers) or OS9034 (internals)

TeleFinland HTC Magic Data Settings

Reading Time: < 1 minute  Easy as a breeze:
APN Name: TeleFinland
APN: internet
MMS protocol: Wap 2.0
MCC: 244
MNC: 91
APN type: default

All the rest, don’t touch.

Nexus one power button not working

Reading Time: < 1 minute My Nexus one has been a good friend for the past year but now I am running into problems with the power button.
I had 2 options:
– open heart surgery, order the replacement unit and change it myself.
– flash the phone in order to remap the power button to the trackball.

I chose the second option as it was available to me right now.
I followed this guide:
https://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/nexus-one

Reset the default drupal theme with SQL

Reading Time: < 1 minute Sometimes a drupal theme can be broken and it can be needed to reset the default theme so the site can be accessed again in order to fix the problem.

As a rule of thumb I always try to use the theme "Cube" for the administrive part of drupal. that makes things a lot easier and if you breeak the theme you can at least still use the admin part.

Here is anyhow how to reset the theme using SQL:

Simply execute the three following commands:

UPDATE system SET status=1 WHERE name = 'garland';

Geekiness

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 Here is the AV configuration at home:
– Sony Playstation 3
– Synology DS210 with 2x 2TB in RAID1
– Digibox Topfield Cable + WBOX
– Nintendo Wii
– Thomson TV 46”
– Buffalo Wireless Nfiniti
– Dreambox PVR 600S
– Western Digital HD Live TV 
– Flate Rectangular Satellite dish
– Modem Router Cisco Linksys WAG320N
– CPL adapters

That makes way too many remotes…

My MYERS-BRIGGS Personality type

Reading Time: 4 minutes Last week we had the trainer assessor workshop and one of our trainer gave a 30 minutes training about the Myers-Briggs personality test. This test is measuring preferences and helps to find out a little bit more about oneself. Some of the sentences in the result sound a bit like astrology so I am very cautious with this and of course I only take the best…

The Inspirer

Bloom’s taxonomy, action verbs for objectives setting

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Bloom is categorizing action verbs in 6 groups:

Knowledge: acquire, attend, choose, collect, complete, copy, define, describe, detect, differentiate, distinguish, duplicate, find, identify, imitate, indicate, isolate, label, list, mark, match, name, order, outline, place, recall, recognize, reproduce, select, state, underline

Export putty settings

Reading Time: < 1 minute It looks like your putty sessions are stored in the registry.

 
Start up the registry editor: regedit.exe (on Windows 7, hit the windows key and type regedit.exe)
 
Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham
 
Right click on "Sessions", choose export. Give a name. Email the file.
 
On the other computer, get the file, save it, right click on it, click on merge. Done