First a disclaimer: I’ve been involved with iWeb in the early stage of this project, in product design. I believe though that the following is a impartial review! For those who are unaware of it, iWeb is a web hosting provider, based in Montréal. They own and run their own data centers, setting them apart [...]
FFunction releases ExpenseVisualizer
FFunction, a studio specializing in data visualization and user interfaces, has released one of its works named ExpenseVisualizer. The tool was made in association with Visible Government, with the goal of exposing expenses made by various federal agencies and organizations. It’s now publicly available, in an effort to promote transparency by more accessible data. The [...]
Upcoming: Drupal Camp Montreal 2010, Oct 23rd, 24th
Drupal, a powerful open source CMS solution, is going strong in Montréal. Drupal events and camps have been around for years, supported by a large base of developers, template designers, and web agencies using the CMS to build feature-rich websites for companies, and also to run small (and big) media websites. Its strength lies in [...]
Upcoming: Tap In Tuesday with Carl Mercier, Tuesday Oct 12th
The monthly mentoring event is back! This time, it’s with Carl Mercier (@cmercier), serial entrepreneur, founder of Defensio, a startup focused on anti-spam technologies. Defensio was bootstrapped by Carl Mercier and is a great example of a technology-focused company, which delivered its promise of a product useful to millions of publishers on the web. Carl [...]
Upcoming: Oct 22nd-24th, Startupifier invites students and techies to launch a product in a weekend
Startupifier, a group dedicated to promote entrepreneurship, based on strong connections with students and local universities, is organizing next month a bootcamp, with teams racing to build a startup in one weekend. It’s similar in spirit to Startup Weekend, an event created about 4 years ago by Andrew Hyde (who incidentally also thought and organized [...]
Best of MontrealHackers.com, Part 4
It’s been a while since the last Best of MontrealHackers.com article. But since then we got a lot of articles in the Montreal Hacker scene. And not just in Ruby, Bash or Javascript. This time we’re also featuring some PHP and C# articles! Rob Britton talks about his experience with the C# language. Some nice [...]
