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April 29

Build your next great game for Windows 8

By on April 29, 2013 in Featured

Even if learning how to build Windows 8 application, if you are a Web Developer, is not a hard task, we still believe that starter kits (or templates) are one of the way to go to learn how to do it. One of the things I like to do on my Windows 8 device is [...]

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March 19

Build a Windows 8 application for your WordPress site – limited offer

By on March 19, 2013 in Geek Speak

A couple of weeks ago, we announced MetroPress, a Windows 8 template to create an HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript application related to self-hosted WordPress site that our friends at IdeaNotion created. I have much good news for you about this! MetroPress v2 – Now IdeaPress The guys at IdeaNotion worked hard to deliver a second [...]

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March 19

Ottawa Open Data App Contest: 38 000$ in prizes

By on March 19, 2013 in Geek Speak

You are not in Ottawa? WAIT, stay with me for a minute! For the second year, the city of Ottawa is doing a contest for app builder around Open Data! This year, I’m happy to let you know that they open up the contest to all Canadian, so whenever you are, you can participate. Apps4Ottawa [...]

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March 18

Register for the Toronto communities workshop on April 6th

By on March 18, 2013 in Events

On April 6th, Make Web Not War is planning their second Windows 8 workshop alongside some of your favorite Toronto user groups: DevTO, HTML5 Toronto, and JavaScript Toronto. This one will focus on highlighting applications and games built using javascript and web technologies.   There will be a couple of excellent speakers coming in from [...]

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February 20

Web or native application, that is the question

By on February 20, 2013 in Geek Speak

To paraphrase the friend Christian Heilmann, comparing Web application, and native application is like comparing oranges, and apples. Notwithstanding, you probably had or you’ll have to ask yourself whether you’ll create a native application or a Web application for your product or game idea. I hardly think that it’s more about the pros, and the cons [...]

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February 19

Targeting multiple platforms

By on February 19, 2013 in Geek Speak

I hear you, it’s not always easy to create an application on many platforms. You want to build an iOS app, use Objective-C. You want to build a Windows Phone app, use C#. You want to build an Android app, use Java. It’s not an easy process, but there are tools, and ways of doing [...]

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February 12

TypeScript, scaling JavaScript

By on February 12, 2013 in Geek Speak

Oh no, not a Microsoft version of JavaScript? No, TypeScript is there to help you scale your JavaScript application, and guess what, at the end, this new programming language compiles into readable, standards-based JavaScript. So what’s the deal? As far as I like JavaScript, there are some features missing that I would like to see to make my [...]

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January 21

Make Web Not War Hackathon at Confoo

By on January 21, 2013 in Events

  For the third year the Make Web Not War team will be at Confoo (by the way, it’s not too late yo buy your ticket for the conference itself). This year again we are planning something fun for the attendees of the conference, but we also wanted to create an amazing event before the conference. [...]

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December 19

Make Web Not War Windows 8 app is out

By on December 19, 2012 in Featured, Geek Speak

Just out from the oven, the Windows 8 application for our Make Web Not War blog is now live on the Windows Store! Like I wrote in my blog post about MetroPress, the guys from IdeaNotion were working on a version for our site. They used the free Open Source template to create the application. There [...]

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December 7

Windows Store app development for iOS developers

By on December 7, 2012 in Featured, Geek Speak, Training & Webcasts

Are you an iOS developer? Did you think about porting your application to a new platform? Are you curious about the opportunities around Windows 8? Do you want to learn a new technology that you can add to your knowledge arsenal? I know, Objective-C is not the same as C#, HTML5 or even C++, but I [...]

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