Tag Archives | mobile
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 13

Developer Movement Virtual Camps

By on February 13, 2013 in Events, Featured

As part of the Developer Movement program, we wanted to offer you some online camps to get you up, and running on all our amazing technologies. I don’t know about you, but even if I can learn by myself, I always enjoy watching some expert talks about what they know the most, do some code demos, [...]

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October 22

Unity adds support for Windows 8, Nintendo Wii U, and Windows Phone 8

By on October 22, 2012 in Geek Speak

Want to build your game once and put it on multiple platforms? Unity has announced they are adding support for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Nintendo Wii U. It’s a problem all game developers face. Which platform will I build for? Android, iOS, Xbox Indie Games, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Nintendo, web, the list [...]

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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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March 2

Confoo 2012 – Building Mobile Experiences That Don’t Suck

By on March 2, 2012 in Events

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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February 3

Interview – Si Chen

By on February 3, 2012 in Community Rock Stars

Si Chen got involved with open source software when he and his wife left their careers as a portfolio manager and a research analyst and started Gracious Style, an online retailer. After building their first online store with Perl, PHP, and MySQL, and he began to work on a more comprehensive solution, which led him [...]

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January 3

Drupal & Bhangra.me

By on January 3, 2012 in Events

January 1, 2012 marked the close of the Bhangra.me: Vancouver’s Bhangra Story exhibition at the Museum of Vancouver. The web portion of the exhibit was powered by the Drupal framework happily running on IIS 7.5 / Windows Sever 2008, which served as a repository of interactive stories accessible from: WebSite for adding & browsing interactive [...]

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December 20

From zero to hero: scalable services to fit your mobile app, like a boss

By on December 20, 2011 in Geek Speak

Most mobile apps today are connected to some kind of internet/cloud-based service.  Very few apps are truly disconnected and the value of mobile apps in general are usually tied to the information from the web the grab and present to the user. Given that emphasis on service-based value in mobile apps, shouldn’t there be tools [...]

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May 4

Open Data at Make Web Not War

By on May 4, 2011 in Events, Featured

The afternoon of May 7th at Masik Studios promises to be an outstanding opportunity to learn about Open Data, Open Government and what is happening in Canada, BC and Vancouver in this space. We have lined up some amazing open gov and open data thought leaders, representatives from the government, open data hacker community and developers to share their experiences & projects with you.

Read on for a detailed schedule of the 3-part Open Data afternoon…

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