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February 3

Interview – Si Chen

By on February 3, 2012 in Community Rock Stars

Si Chen got involved with open source software when he and his wife left their careers as a portfolio manager and a research analyst and started Gracious Style, an online retailer. After building their first online store with Perl, PHP, and MySQL, and he began to work on a more comprehensive solution, which led him [...]

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January 23

Party in the Cloud, Everyone’s Invited

By on January 23, 2012 in Geek Speak

Windows Azure™ is an open cloud platform that allows many different technologies to run so that developers don’t have to choose. Your application may not be written in .NET, you may not know .NET, but you can still use Windows Azure to take your applications to the next level. The Microsoft Cloud, Windows Azure™, is [...]

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July 19

Professor Pedia to the Rescue!

By on July 19, 2011 in Uncategorized

If you’re a student at Simon Frasier University you’d be hard pressed to find a reason not to use to Professor Pedia. The application is both a social and informational platform for students’ daily academic lives.It’s a solution for students’ most basic academic needs: professor ratings, book trading, a student forum and a WikiNote.  Along with [...]

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April 29

Deploying a Java application to Windows Azure with Command-line Ant

By on April 29, 2011 in Uncategorized

Recommended Reading Understanding Windows Azure Getting the Windows Azure Pre-Requisites Via Manual Installation Getting the Windows Azure Pre-Requisites Via Automatic Web Platform Installer Whether you are building a brand new application, or already have something built and wish to take advantage of the high availability and scalability of the Windows Azure cloud, this tutorial will [...]

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April 15

How Open-Source Helps Businesses to Innovate

By on April 15, 2011 in Uncategorized

Open-source and closed-source projects both pose unique problems and solutions when it comes to innovation and both innovate in very different ways. To understand why they innovate so differently you need look at their methods and motivation.

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April 14

North American Governments And Agencies That Get And Embrace Crowdsourcing

By on April 14, 2011 in Uncategorized

While open source has been one of the critical discussions buzzing in the tech community, crowdsourcing has turned out to be the open source movement of politics. Similar to open source, crowdsourcing is a mass collaboration initiative where governments and agencies look to the public for ideas, suggestions and solutions concerning various issues.

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March 9

10 Leading Open-Source Advocates & Developers

By on March 9, 2011 in Uncategorized

Thomas Goetz from Wired put it best when he wrote, open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Using the distributive powers of the Internet and disseminating work out to the masses, the open source movement is about putting everyone’s heads together to create better systems. This post [...]

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March 4

I Sing the Data Open

By on March 4, 2011 in Uncategorized

“Open Data is to Open Gov as the Body is to the Soul”. Open Gov is made real by Open Data. Open Data enables an open government to interact with its citizens, and it is Open Data that helps bring to life the principles and objectives of Open Government. This is one of my 3 themes resulting from a recent exercise preparing and researching for a talk on Open Gov / Gov 2.0 and Open Data.

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February 28

Installing PHP on Windows Azure leveraging Full IIS Support: Part 3

By on February 28, 2011 in Uncategorized

Cory’s final post about installing PHP on Windows Azure

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February 20

Installing PHP on Windows Azure leveraging Full IIS Support: Part 2

By on February 20, 2011 in Uncategorized

In the last post of this Series, Installing PHP on Windows Azure leveraging Full IIS Support: Part 1, we created a script to launch the Web Platform Installer Command-line tool in Windows Azure in a Command-line Script. In this post we’ll be looking at creating the Service Definition and Service Configuration files which will describe [...]

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