Montreal Tech Watch

I’ve bumped into SeeYourHotel a while ago, when they listed the url on the 1st startupcamp montreal wiki. At that time, it only looked like a very simple Google Mashup, with pins for hotels. They had data for a few Canadian cities, as well as Paris, with video guides of selected hotels. Overall though, it [...]

Last week, RailsRumble ’08 was held, with programmers invited to team up and launch an application within a weekend. As the name suggests, it’s targeted to Ruby On Rails programmers, the framework known for its rapid development. The organizers had an array of servers provided to the teams, which could be used to deploy and host [...]

One of my most memorable experience was studying two years here. No, it wasn’t due to the lush environment, nor the crazy melting pot of international students, but because of the never-ending hard work and competition. And by hard, I mean solving impossible problems everyday. I never broke any sweat before, as things always appeared so [...]

Back at the last CodeFest, Marc Laporte, project admin for the TikiWiki project, held a meetup to get feedback on TikiWiki. TikiWiki is at its core a Wiki engine, but now has many features, perhaps one of the most feature-rich wiki and CMS avalaible. Marc Laporte said they have been adding features for the past [...]

SoftImage announced this week that they were acquired by Autodesk for $35 million. Autodesk is a leading 3D software company, makers of acclaimed 3D modeling packages such as AutoCAD (industrial design, architecture, engineering), 3DS Max (video games, video CG effects), Maya (open architecture, used in video CG). On the other hand, SoftImage’s leading product is [...]

Update: this job position is not available anymore Company: Purecobalt Responsibilities and tasks | Responsabilités et tâches: We are a Montreal web shop seeking a contract PHP developer with Joomla experience to integrate and configure dynamic modules and other social components for a site in development. Nous sommes une agence web montréalaise à la recherche [...]

Here’s the 2nd part of the interview with Philippe Gamache (Part 1 here). As stated previously, Philippe Gamache is opening Sensio Canada offices with a new training session due soon. The web frameworks mentioned above were all released to the public and owned by its “developer community”. Symfony, in the other hand, seems to be [...]

I met Philippe Gamache for the first time at a codefest (a phpquebec event); where he discussed web vulnerabilities and potential security problems. The discussions were focused on php, however I found his comments extremely insightful. He was then at MOBIVOX, a Montreal voip startup. Things have changed since then, my rails application are much [...]

Guy Vigneault écrit: Célébration CMS 2008 Guide CMS est fier de vous inviter à Célébration CMS 2008 le samedi 8 novembre prochain Endroit : Auditorium Mailloux de l’hôpital Notre-Dame situé au 1560, rue Sherbrooke Est, Montréal. Sur le même principe que l’événement de l’année dernière, Célébration CMS 2008 se veut un petit “get together” sans [...]

Company: Kovasys Position: .NET / Java Developers and Unix / Windows Administrators Responsibilities and tasks: Kovasys is currently recruiting for .NET / Java Developers and Unix / Windows Administrators for Montréal, and Ottawa and elsewhere across Canada. We work with many hiring managers at small to large size organizations in Quebec, Ontario and Alberta! If [...]