Montreal Tech Watch

Editor’s note: I am introducing today a new MTW section dedicated to the hundreds of projects in Montréal, who aren’t yet ready to be featured at mtlnewtech or to be funded by investors, or be featured on MTW. It’s meant for all developers who have a running prototype, or maybe an entrepreneur who has a [...]

One week ago, a survey was posted on MTW, with the goal of assessing the state of Montreal technology landscape. The survey was setup to find first the strengths, second the problems and finally, the opportunities for Montréal as a technology and entrepreneurship center. As a few noted, it’s not a scientific survey, with sometimes [...]

In the past two weeks I added a couple of new feeds in Montreal Hackers. Hugo Frappier’s blog is one of them. In this post, he’s talking about the Rack::Rewrite middleware, and how to make some permanent redirections in your Ruby apps. In another great post, Cedric Dugas is introducing us to the Google WebFont [...]

Christmas is early for some of us apparently. While many are working hard on getting benevolent investors fund their projects, and trying to get their product online with minimal resources and time, Duncan Moore (@duncano) “just” applied to an innovation award started by U.K. based web development agency Deep Blue Sky Digital. The award’s homepage [...]

BitNorth, an annual informal conference for technology communities but open for anyone, is scheduled at the end of the month. The event has a unique formula, with settings far away from Montreal, is similar to BarCamp in the sense that everyone has to participate, AND it’s the only tech event in the year without any [...]

So it’s August 1st, middle of the summer and most of you are probably on a terrace, back or going to holidays, plus maybe a few hardcore techies still sleeping from a hard night coding (raise your hands hahaha) Today we have a light and quite modest post I entitled “Montreal is the best startup [...]