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 [...]
Tag Archives | open-source
January
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Tanzim Saqib is a .NET Architect consultant, who won Microsoft “Most Valuable Professional” award couple times. He helped British Telecom build Web 2.0 for Business SaaS architectures complex widget ecosystem, hybrid MVC, and CMS Framework for their large customer-base. In 7 years in professional software development, he worked for companies like personalized Web 2.0 start-page [...]
January
23
Windows Azure™ is an open cloud platform that allows many different technologies to run so that developers don’t have to choose. Your application may not be written in .NET, you may not know .NET, but you can still use Windows Azure to take your applications to the next level. The Microsoft Cloud, Windows Azure™, is [...]
January
20
Zack Urlocker (@ZUrlocker)is Chief Operating Officer at Zendesk, the leading cloud-based help desk software company. He was previously VP Products at MySQL where he was responsible for Engineering and Marketing. He is a frequent speaker and writer on technology. http://www.theopenforce.com/ What is your preferred Open Source platform and why? For many people the LAMP stack [...]
January
13
Jeff ( @geerlingguy ) currently works for flockNote, an online communication company based in Texas, and collaborates on many projects outside of his work for flockNote. He contributes code to some open source mobile development tools for iOS and Android, and contributes code, documentation, and support to Drupal, and dabbles in many small projects for various [...]
January
6
Glyn ( @glynmoody ) has been a technology journalist and consultant for a quarter of a century, covering the Internet since March 1994, and the free software world since 1995. One of his early features he wrote was for Wired in 1997: The Greatest OS that (N)ever Was. His most recent books are Rebel Code: Linux [...]
January
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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 [...]
December
23
Make Web Not War (MWNW) emerged in 2009 in Toronto. The vision was to bring together open-source communities and Microsoft to explore the possibilities of using open-source technology on the Microsoft platform. No one knew if the idea would fail or be deemed visionary, even cool. Luckily developers thought MWNW was worth exploring and the [...]
December
11
This is the second instalment of our interview with Michael Dekmetzian (amickey_), a mobile developer we met at MobileCamp Montreal. In this clip, Michael discusses the fragmentation of open source mobile platforms and Nokia’s adoption of Windows Phone 7. Specifically, Michael sees Android’s fragmentation across devices as a challenge for both mobile developers and users. [...]
November
28
Post written by community rock star Paul Jara. Community is fundamental to the success of MyCityLives. We simply could not exist without people who love their city and are passionate about sharing that love. In difficult times around the world, the web holds evidence that people come together to create and foster communities that work. [...]
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An Intro To The Semantic Web: Why You Need To Know About It Sooner Than Later
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WHY THE @&*# IS MICROSOFT DOING THIS?
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Feeling Blue? Why The Most Popular Websites Are Blue
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Drupal + OGDI = Open Data goodness!
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Dev Profile: Angie Byron
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Make Web Not War Communities Night in Vancouver
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Interview – Si Chen
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So where’s my copy of MSFT for Dummies?
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User groups: learn, meet and share
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Interview – Tanzim Saqib
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Arif Nezami: It's always inspiring that people like Tanzim Saq...
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Sudipta K Paik: Great Sir. We are happy to know it....
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Brandenburg Sr.: I did not know Microsoft was so open to the open s...
- Open Source in the Cloud – WordPress on Azure: My Make Web Not War presentation | Creative Web Design Agency: [...] [...]...
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Fred P: Looks like none of the links are working...
