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. [...]
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December
4
Meet Michael Dekmetzian (amickey_), a mobile developer we ran into at MobileCamp Montreal. We sat down with Michael during the event, and had a long chat about the world of mobile development. In this first instalment of our chat with Michael, he discusses jquery mobile and the potential it offers mobile developers to easily create [...]
November
20
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 [...]
November
8
Meet Dov Amihod (doooov), one of the founders of Happy Stuff, a mobile app the lets users buy and sell things locally. I recently had a chance to chat with Dov and ask him about his experience as a mobile developer. Among the things Dov discussed with us were: Why Happy Stuff launched on the [...]
April
8
Sylvain Carle describes the tech and entrepreneurial communities in Montreal as well as describes where Microsoft fits into the ever-changing landscape
February
24
Julia recaps her trip to Vancouver for some pre-Make Web Not War community time. Features video interviews by Boris Mann and Chris Nicol.
November
30
Microsoft Canada is working with Yorkville Media Centre (YMC), a downtown Toronto learning facility where where you can learn the skills you need to work in digital media. Typically, YMC covers building websites with open source technologies like PHP, MySQL and Wordpress…
November
22
The moment we’ve been waiting for! The launch of Video #1 in a series of nine documenting the teachings of The Yorkville Media Centre. Known by friends and family, and now to the world, as the YMC! Over a period of nine weeks participants embark on a journey of learning how to build a website. [...]
November
4
FSOSS is a “symposium.” A symposium is a drinking party. But not just any drinking party: It’s the kind of drinking party that really intellectual Greek guys like Plato attended. If you accept these premises, then the attendees of FSOSS attended a party that used to host the likes of Plato. Now if that doesn’t make you feel intelligent!
September
20
In the Open Source Community, bounties are not an uncommon sight. Firefox and Ubuntu frequently use bounties to reward programmers who take on the less sexier challenges in the coding world. When we were looking to help bring some popular Canadian open source projects over to the Web Application Gallery, we figured a cash bounty [...]
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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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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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Party in the Cloud, Everyone’s Invited
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