Tag Archives | development
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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April 18

WebMatrix and DotNetNuke (Part 2 of 6): Using WebMatrix to Publish Your DotNetNuke Site

By on April 18, 2011 in Uncategorized

In a previous post I described how WebMatrix can be used to download DotNetNuke and install it on your local computer.  In this blog I will describe how you can use WebMatrix to publish your DotNetNuke site to a Hosting Provider. First lets slightly modify the content from a plain vanilla DotNetNuke site, by deleting [...]

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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 12

WebMatrix and DotNetNuke (Part 1 of 6): Using WebMatrix to Setup Your DotNetNuke Site

By on April 12, 2011 in Training & Webcasts

Earlier this week Microsoft released WebMatrix the new free lightweight web-stack for developing ASP.NET Web Applications.  As I discussed in my initial blog one of the potential uses of WebMatrix is its ability to open existing Open Source applications directly from the Web Application Gallery. In this blog post I will walk through the steps [...]

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