Lyne Bouchard, who heads TechnoMontreal, blogs about the document they delivered last week to the “task force” studying companies operating in information technology. Qu.bec’s Ministère des Finances created this task force to make recommandations about what to do about these tax measures, which are about to expire. One famous example of tax assistance for high-tech [...]
Job Listing: Bleeding-Edge and Curiosa.licio.us front-end web developer at Praized Media
Company: Praized Media Position: Bleeding-Edge and Curiosa.licio.us front-end web developer Responsibilites and Tasks: Working with the Praized (small and dedicated) Dev Team, you will have the opportunity to define with us the core concepts of a novel way to handle local data and be responsible for the implementation of the Praized Platform front-ends (yes, there’s [...]
First Blitzweekend session, personal notes
This weekend, I did with Mehdi a blitzweekend session, the first of its kind. The goal was to make a product in 2 days, from concept idea, design, development to deployment. This is a real challenge in itself, something that is possible now thanks to technologies like ruby on rails. We began Saturday 8.30 am, [...]
Report: PHP Quebec meetup
PHP Québec is a professional association of PHP users in this province. Its goal is to promote the use of PHP among industrials and programmers. Yesterday, I had the chance to attend a series of presentations on the subject. It is a monthly event organized by PHP Quebec. On this occasion, we had two presenters. [...]
Kakiloc launches new features and mobile version; more to come
Kakiloc, an application that lets you share your current location and mood status with your friends, has relaunched this week. It is in fact very similar to twitter, plus the geolocalization feature. It was designed for instance to let you know if you had friends around the neighborhood, thanks to your mobile phone and a [...]
Upcoming: FacebookCamp, Nov. 7th
Sylvain Carle is planning a facebookcamp Wednesday nov 7th, for anyone interested in developing facebook apps. There is also a facebook page about the event, with 29 people signed in for the event. From the announcement: FacebookCamp is an unconference for everyone with an interest in building on the Facebook Platform. FacebookCamp brings together developers, [...]
Report: Montreal On Rails, 3rd Edition
Last tuesday, the third edition of Montreal On Rails was planned at the Standoutjobs offices. It’s a monthly event, organized by Carl Mercier and Mat Balez from Karabunga where a couple of ruby on rails developers give a presentation about the framework, be it plugins, tools, helpers etc. It’s also a macbook pro party, even [...]
Find business opportunities in Africa with linkwithafrica.com
I stumbled today upon a newly launched website done by Chezola Systems, a Montreal/Laval company which is also planning a mobile payment system in Africa for this year, with GSM cellphones and prepaid cards. The website is named link with africa, and is presented as a social and business networking utility for anyone interested to [...]
BarcampCanada1′s final date announced: Nov 3rd
StartupOttawa beat me to it, even though I am not sure if the date is really final, but here it is: the next barcamp in Montréal is due Saturday November 3rd, at the SAT. This time, it’s the Canadian version though, with tech heads coming from Ottawa, Toronto and other places expected. As you can [...]
iWeb to open a new colocation center in Montreal
iWeb, whose facilities I visited 6 months ago, seems now to be unstopabble. They have opened earlier this year a new data center in St-Leonard, and last month, they have also acquired new office space in Sherbrooke street for additionnal office space. Now, they announced on their blog that they will open a third data [...]
