• social

    5Jan
    2010

    Project52 challenge!

    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 [...]

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    7Dec
    2009

    Open Source drinks with Microsoft

    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, [...]

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    17Nov
    2009

    Career Demo Camp Montreal 2009

    The organizers of Confoo (www.confoo.ca), PHUG (www.phug.ca), Joey DeVilla and Jean-Luc Sans Cartier bring you Career Demo Camp Montreal! Hosted by Joey deVilla and Jean-Luc SanCartier, Career Demo Camp is an opportunity for web developers and start-ups to get together and learn about the job market, exciting local projects and chance to network! You can register [...]

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    15Oct
    2009

    October – A Month of Festivals

    What a great month to not work and do some socializing! This month there are a dozen or so wonderful social, business, technology, and web festivals happening from Montreal to Toronto. Below are a few I will be attending, and some I will be presenting at. I thought I would share. Hope to see some [...]

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    14Oct
    2009

    Twitter Spam and Other Exploits

    Today my Twitter account was hacked and unfortunately many of my followers had to suffer the consequences of  ‘Twitter Spam’. Almost 300 of my followers received a DM from me that read  “found this video of you lol (link)” or something like that. It’s a phishing site (learn more about phishing sites here) that takes [...]

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    6Oct
    2009

    Lifestreaming

    This is not a new concept. Most online communities or blogs stream status updates of some kind as apart of their over all content. The obvious examples would be Facebook’s news feeds, twitter’s status updates. There are also sites like FriendFeed which allows you to  stream a combination of status updates from all your social [...]

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