Tag Archives | development
March 6

Getting Intimate with Windows 8 App Development

By on March 6, 2013 in Events

So, what does Windows 8 app development entail, really? Well, we’re here to help demystify and get you close and personal with the whole process. This weekend, March 10, 2013, from 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M., Web Not War has teamed up with DevTO + HTML5 Toronto + Javascript Toronto to bring the Toronto developer [...]

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July 27

FoxIE: Modern browsers & standards

By on July 27, 2012 in Geek Speak

Who said that Microsoft employee throws water balloons whenever they see a Mozilla employee? And who said that a Mozilla employee make nodes laces of Microsoft employee each time they see us at conferences? We are both companies, doing Web browsers, working for a more open Web, and liking Web standards! Let me introduce you [...]

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May 29

Make Web Not War Webcamp is back with awesome new content

By on May 29, 2012 in Events

DUE TO SITUATION OUT OF OUR CONTROL, THE EVENT HAS BEEN REPORTER TO SEPTEMBER. MORE INFORMATION ON THIS BLOG IN SEPTEMBER. THANKS! We got so many people who asked us to do another Webcamp after our first one, that there wasn’t a way for us to say no. So by popular requests, we will have [...]

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April 5

HTML5, CodePlex & Windows 8

By on April 5, 2012 in Geek Speak

Last week I did a summary blog post of some topics I found interesting on other blogs I’m posting on. I thought it was fun to give you the opportunity to read interesting subjects that we didn’t write about here, so I’m doing the same thing for this week. Top 10 resources for HTML5 developers [...]

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March 19

EXOdesk Review

By on March 19, 2012 in Featured, Geek Speak

The EXOdesk is a first of its kind multi touch desk running the Microsoft Surface software.  We had some hands on time with the EXOdesk hardware during Confoo 2012 at the Make Web Not War Dojo and here is our take. The smartphone market has taught us that hardware consoles can live or die by [...]

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March 2

First EXOdesk Application Development Challenge

By on March 2, 2012 in Events

Make Web Not War and EXOPC are proud to announce the first EXOdesk Application Development Challenge. This is chance for talented developers to show their creativity and become one of the first people in the world to own an EXOdesk, recently named one of the best innovations at CES 2012. We had a chance to [...]

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January 9

Tyranny of the OR

By on January 9, 2012 in Geek Speak

Back in the day when I thought I knew everything, it was easy to make sweeping declarations such as: technology x is way better than y only real programmers use x x is much better because it has feature z that y does not WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT So one day when I thought I [...]

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November 22

Make Web Not War Community Sponsor Spotlight!

By on November 22, 2011 in Community Sponsors, Events, Featured

Let’s hear it for the ladies! We’re pumped to have this newly formed organization support our first community night!   Ladies Learning Code is a not-for-profit organization in Toronto that was founded in June of 2011 with a tweet. Their mission is to inspire and empower more women and girls to become passionate builders – [...]

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May 17

Feeling Blue? Why The Most Popular Websites Are Blue

By on May 17, 2011 in Uncategorized

Maybe Eiffel 65 was on to something more than just annoying the living daylights out of us when they released I’m Blue (Da Ba Dee) in 1999. After all, that was the same year Pantone (the global authority on colour) named the colour Cerulean (sky blue) the “Colour of the New Millennium”.

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April 28

Most Popular Programming Languages

By on April 28, 2011 in Uncategorized

Computers have become a major part of our lives and in many ways an extension of ourselves. We use computers to communicate, to organize, store and retrieve mass amounts of information, and what makes all of this possible are programming languages. Programming languages make our computers intelligent. They control the machine’s behavior and act as [...]

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