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Bassel Moukaddem is the COO of EXOPC, the company behind the EXOdesk platform. We did a review of the EXOdesk as well as a quick interview with Bassel during Confoo 2012. There was a 32inch EXOdesk in debug mode at Confoo that we were able to play around with. In this interview Bassel explains some [...]

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We caught up with Nik Garkusha, the Open Platforms Lead at Microsoft Canada at Confoo 2012 this year. In this interview we get some sight into Microsoft’s “Open Government in a Box” Drupal distribution. Datapublic is a fully-loaded platform built on Drupal 7 bundled with over a dozen of custom features and modules that are [...]

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One of the themes of Confoo 2012 was programmers stepping outside of their comfort zone and being exposed to unfamiliar coding languages. My main interest being Javascript and PHP, I was really pleased to learn something new, something called Ruby on Rails. The very charismatic and funny Joey DeVilla hosted the session Ruby as She is [...]

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Another summary of a talk we attended on Day 2 of Confoo 2012. If you haven’t checked out the Make Web Not War Dojo yet – make sure to come visit us tomorrow for lightning talks, kinect Fruit Ninja and giveaways! Building Mobile Experiences That Don’t Suck by Frédéric Harper Frédéric Harper is a Developer [...]

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Another summary of a talk we attended on Day 1 of Confoo 2012. If you haven’t checked out the Make Web Not War Dojo yet – make sure to come visit us tomorrow for lightning talks, kinect Fruit Ninja and giveaways! DRYing CSS for brevity, unity and maintainability by Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke brought a [...]

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We put together some of our favorite #Confoo tweets from day 1 – vote on your favorite at the poll and retweet it to your fellow confoo attendees!

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Here is a summary of a talk we attended on Day 1 of Confoo 2012. If you haven’t checked out the Make Web Not War Dojo yet – make sure to come visit us tomorrow for lightning talks, kinect Fruit Ninja and giveaways! The HTML5 Landscape by Andrew Lombardi HTML5 was introduced in 2009 and [...]

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Are You Up To The Ultimate Make Web Not War Code Ninja Challenge? Make Web Not War is putting ConFoo attendees up to the Ultimate Code Ninja Challenge! During the 3 day conference, a series of challenges will take place in the Make Web Not War Dojo, located in Fontaine B. By reaching your destination, [...]

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Let me start off with a disclaimer: I love Apples, especially the phone variety. I’ve had every iPhone since the first, and will likely keep getting them until they’re no longer the best phone for me. I particularly enjoy their industrial design, user experience, and seamless integration with all of my other Apple products (which [...]

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Hey tech friends! Have you heard the news? Make Web Not War will be at the ConFoo Web Techno Conference held in Montreal from Feb 29th to March 2nd! With more than 160 conference sessions taking place over the 3 day event, this year’s ConFoo conference will cover a wide-range of awesome tech-related topics with a focus [...]

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