Kinect for Windows and it’s SDK gives us a chance to break away from the ordinary and get creative! I have spent many hours writing validation code for forms, code that read or updated databases, or code that looped through collections. Sure I got creative from time to time with how I wrote my code, [...]
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February
23
Lots of tools out there support HTML5, but since I already have Visual Studio 2010 at work, I figured I would see how I could avoid downloading yet another tool on my laptop. I started trying out HTML5 a few months back. I’ve been using Visual Studio for years at work. I figured it should [...]
February
16
Ever wondered what life is like for an independent game developer? Check out this interview by Jessica Pellow as she talks with Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky about their film “Indie Game: the movie” a film selected for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival that follows the stories of four game developers. Bruce Mau, a Canadian [...]
February
7
At An Event Apart in Atlanta yesterday, Dan Cederholm announced the availability of Pears. If you are not familiar with Dan, you might be familiar with the cool design preview site called Dribbble. Pears is an open source WordPress theme that allows you to easily post HTML and CSS so that you can create a [...]
December
23
Make Web Not War (MWNW) emerged in 2009 in Toronto. The vision was to bring together open-source communities and Microsoft to explore the possibilities of using open-source technology on the Microsoft platform. No one knew if the idea would fail or be deemed visionary, even cool. Luckily developers thought MWNW was worth exploring and the [...]
December
13
In the beginning of December, I was the keynote speaker for FITC Spotlight HTML5. It was a full day of HTML5 presentations in one track. It was my first experience at FITC and I enjoyed it. Many years have passed since the invention of the Web. More than ever, the Web is present in our [...]
November
24
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Webcom conference in the OpenGouv track, which is of course French for Open Gov In my session: Building Open Government Platforms of the Future I shared my thoughts on the the trends in the Open Government space in Canada and what properties ANY open gov [...]
October
14
Last year, we were in Vancouver for Make Web Not War conference. It was a real success, and we had a lot of awesome topics that experts deliver in front of enthusiast technical and less technical people. For those of you that weren’t there, that missed a presentation because we had two tracks at the [...]
October
11
Authored by Kowsheek Mahmood of Three Red Cubes Care is an application that started out as a competition entry for Code Your Art Out. We partnered with Techsoup Canada and Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada to build Care as a platform to connect patients with their healthcare professionals. The Idea Techsoup Canada drew up the initial [...]
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An Intro To The Semantic Web: Why You Need To Know About It Sooner Than Later
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WHY THE @&*# IS MICROSOFT DOING THIS?
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Feeling Blue? Why The Most Popular Websites Are Blue
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From Apples to Mangoes: A first look at the Nokia Lumia 800
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Drupal + OGDI = Open Data goodness!
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Random Hacks of Kindness: help solve global challenges
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Take your HTML5 skills, and build on Windows 8
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Join the developer movement
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Make Web Not War Community Night in Vancouver was a blast
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Eye tracking games hackathon
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