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May 3

Three ways to set up a Ruby stack on Azure

By on May 3, 2013 in Geek Speak, Training & Webcasts

Microsoft’s announcement of the Windows Azure SDK for Ruby opens up new alternatives and resources for Ruby developers to publish their apps in the cloud. This first version of the SDK (GitHub) supports working with Azure storage & Azure service bus, and deployment in a Linux VM on Azure IaaS. The 3 options covered below [...]

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April 22

Setting up Ubuntu Linux VM on Windows Azure for Node.js using essential Node & Azure tools on Mac OS X

By on April 22, 2013 in Geek Speak, Training & Webcasts

As of lately I’ve been experimenting with Node.JS and Express for back-ends and REST APIs of web, mobile & Windows 8 apps, such as the Hero & Finder Templates.While Azure Web Sites provide a perfect way to get going fast with Node, because Web Sites aren’t running IIS8 yet, to use Socket.IO with Node I’d [...]

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January 31

Modern.ie – A dev center for Web developers

By on January 31, 2013 in Featured

  As a Web Developer, it’s not always easy to follow-up with all the browsers, good practices, and at the same time, supporting old browsers our customers are using. Modern.ie is a new tool we created to help developers make the Web a better place to live with standards like HTML5, and CSS3, while supporting [...]

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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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October 22

True North PHP in the cloud

By on October 22, 2012 in Events

In exactly two weeks, a collaboration of Great Toronto Area (GTA) PHP user groups will host their inaugural conference, True North PHP.  It is with great pride that Make Web Not War is a gold level sponsor for this amazing event! This 2 days conference will give you the opportunity to learn about things you didn’t [...]

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September 10

Linux on Windows Azure, it’s possible

By on September 10, 2012 in Geek Speak

I bet that most of you aren’t used to seeing the word Windows, and Linux in the same sentence! I did a couple of blog posts on Windows Azure in the past as I’m really happy with this service, and the openness the team shown since the beginning make this service a powerful tool for [...]

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August 28

Open Source & Microsoft, some resources

By on August 28, 2012 in Geek Speak

Are you serious? A blog post about Microsoft, and Open Source! Yes, we have been playing well with others for a couple of years now, and I think it would be nice to let you know about some resources for you. Open at Microsoft – http://www.microsoft.com/openness This is site is the main place about everything [...]

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July 22

Interop & Flexibility: Interview with Mike Maddaloni (@TheHotIron)

By on July 22, 2011 in Community Rock Stars

Meet Mike Maddaloni (@TheHotIron), a business technology blogger and Founder & President of Dunkirk Systems (@TheHotIron). Mike’s been building stuff since the first dot-com bubble, so I recently asked Mike for his input on the world of Open Source and how it’s evolving.

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July 18

Open Source, Versatility, and Community: Interview with @SpicyDesign

By on July 18, 2011 in Community Rock Stars

Meet Alex ElChehimi (@spicydesign), a Wordpress and web designer from Montreal who makes Wordpress into art. I recently asked Alex some questions about Open Source and what he likes about it. For Alex, the potential of Open Source lies in its versatility and the community behind it.

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June 13

WordPress and Open Source Communities: Interview with Andrea Rennick

By on June 13, 2011 in Community Rock Stars

Meet Andrea Rennick (@andrea_r). For those of you who don’t know her, she’s kinda a big deal in the Wordpress community. Seriously… We recently got a chance to ask Andrea her thoughts on Open Source, its impact on SMBs, and what Microsoft is doing in terms of interoperability. Here is what she had to say.

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