I have to admit I am pretty impressed by the response I have received over the re-design of brendanserashriar.com. I did not expect so many people to digg the design, after all it only one page. Over the past few weeks I have received many emails and tweets on a job well done. I have [...]
Read more →Recently I stumbled across an interesting post on Sam Brown’s blog entitled Project52. I was expecting some kind of portfolio post like “check out the new site I launched!”. Instead I came across a very interesting proposal for 2010. Project52 aims to achieve fresh content and better blogging on the web. The goal is to [...]
Read more →This months digibomb’s is a collection of inspirational articles that may help motivate you to become a better blogger, freelancer, designer, or community manager. Here are 8 great articles I came across this month that taught me something about the web. I hope they help you as much as they have helped me. Enjoy! Writing [...]
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Read more →Every year around the web software developers, community managers, and celeb bloggers give out a ton of prizes fro Christmas, this year is no exception. Here are 10 great giveaways get you started.
Read more →Recently I decided to re-design brendanserashriar.com a.k.a. Lifestream. Lifestreaming is a continual broadcast of events in a person’s life through digital media. the idea was to stream all my social network feeds in one place. I decided to this based on a presentation at WordCamp Montreal by Erin Blaskie. However, after much deliberation I have [...]
Read more →Last week I was invited to speak at an intimate blogger circle and Open Source social at the funky W Hotel in Montreal hosted by High Road Communications and Microsoft, you can read the full post here. Thanks to the wonderful Joey deVilla my talk was caught on video tape (also make sure to check [...]
Read more →Last week in Montreal Microsoft held its annual Tech Days conference with great success. They also outreached to some local Open Source communities here in Montreal; PHP Quebec, ConnFoo.ca, PHUG, and others to help organizer a free event called Career Demo Camp. Over 100 people showed up to listen to local developers some really code, [...]
Read more →Had a great time at DemoCamp Montreal last night! The turnout was excellent, the space was very comfortable and we exceeded our expectations. Many thanks to the organizers Joey DeVilla ( @AccordionGuy ) and Jean-Luc Sans Cartier, the gang from Microsoft ( @Nik_G , @arunkirupa ) and Confoo ( @confoo) who did a great job [...]
Read more →This month I was on the hunt for good design fonts, I had quite a few design projects complete all of which were really typography driven. I have always had a great appreciation for typography, it makes a world of different in a design if done properly! So here are few really great free and [...]
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