Edmonton Releases its Data as Part of Microsoft’s Open Government Data...
Edmonton is officially the first city in North America to sign onto Microsoft’s Open Government Data Initiative, and has released its first set of downloadable databases holding pertinent municipal...
View ArticleConfoo – The Legend Continued
Seven years ago a small group of PHP enthusiasts got together and threw a conference together to share new ideas and best practices around the ever-evolving PHP language. Today, that conference has...
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Tomorrow is Make Web Not War!
Tomorrow is the big day! Get ready to crown the best coder in Canada and end the war on “platform religions”. Check out our green screen; Make Web Not War is going to be awesome! The post Tomorrow is...
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Make Web Not War – It’s here!
It’s the morning of Make Web Not War and 6600 rue Hutchinson is really going off! Yes folks, it’s finally here: Make Web Not War starts in a matter of minutes. It’s so neat to see the event coming...
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They Came, They Coded, They Conquered
Coding competitions can be a tricky affair. What merits one app to be “better” than another? Is it how innovative that apps is? How cool it looks? How useful it is? I believe that when an app makes you...
View ArticleWhy try WebPI?
The Web Platform Installer (WebPI) gives you easy access to the latest components of the Microsoft web platform. But what advantage is there to have access to the Microsoft web platform? Marc-André...
View ArticlePHP Devs Jumping into SQL Server
When I wrote about Microsoft’s 7 best efforts in Open Source in 2010, I neglected to include JumpIn! Camp, a cool event that Microsoft held in late November. Recently, a blog has surfaced from one of...
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How Open-Source Helps Businesses to Innovate
Open-source and closed-source projects both pose unique problems and solutions when it comes to innovation and both innovate in very different ways. To understand why they innovate so differently you...
View ArticleVancouver Open Source Week Interview Series: John Weintraub
As the leader of the Linux User Group in Vancouver we wanted to speak with John Weintraub! Vancouver Open Source Week Schedule Please tell us about yourself. My name is John Weintraub, and I am an I.T....
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