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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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Our long time Make Web Not War partner has come through again and we are forever grateful to them.  Big shout out to Jet Cooper who will be providing the very important Twitter wall for our upcoming community night!   Check these guys out. Jet Cooper is a user experience agency based in Toronto, Canada. [...]

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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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Meet Brendan Sera-Shria (digibomb), a man who wears a lot of hats, but who most recently co-founded PressWork, an open source WordPress framework. Press Work is the first completely open source WordPress frameworks, and is HTML5 compliant. During our chat, Brendan discussed what makes PressWork special. He also discussed their decision to give it away [...]

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We’re  stoked to have Kendo UI support our first community tonight! Thank you Kendo!   Kendo UI is everything professional developers need to build HTML5 sites and mobile apps. In the complete, integrated package you will find a jQuery-based toolset that includes rich UI widgets, powerful data source, dynamic data visualizations, and blazing fast micro-templates, [...]

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Join us at The Drupal Business Summit in Toronto on Friday, December 2, 2011! During this free 1-day summit discover best practices from organizations transforming their web strategies with Drupal. Hear from real Drupal users – the why, the what, the how of Drupal. Hear lessons learned, tips and techniques, and best practices for large scale [...]

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On December 1st we’ll be hosting our first ever Make Web Not War community night!  We’re really excited to have such a stellar speaker line-up for our first community night event. Check out these community rock stars who will be kicking off the Toronto event.  The in-person event is sold out but don’t worry you’ll [...]

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Do you CARE?

Authored by Kowsheek Mahmood of Three Red Cubes Care is an application that started out as a competition entry for Code Your Art Out. We  partnered with Techsoup Canada and Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada to  build Care as a platform to connect patients with their healthcare professionals. The Idea Techsoup Canada drew up the initial [...]

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Confoo is looking for the best speakers willing to share their skills and experience with developers and managers. This year, Confoo is dedicated to software development, project management and best practices. The technical part covers different aspects of Web development such as: PHP, Python, Ruby, .Net, Java, security, content management systems, frameworks, databases, system administration, [...]

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Booom!!

Whether you’re a business that utilizes Facebook for marketing, or a regular user (like most of us), you should check out this killer app called Booom!.   Booom! was developed by Trevor and Karim of  Toronto-based Big Time Design. Booom! allows you to receive the information you want from your favourite brands and pages on Facebook. Once [...]

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