Montreal Tech Watch

DemoCampCUSEC, a democamp organized last thursday during the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference, gathered a room full of students as well as few others coming from the technology community in Montreal. Attendees came from all over Canada to see applications coded by students in their spare time or as part of a research project. In [...]

devLab Montreal (@devlabMtl) are now holding weekly hacking events. The series is clearly targeted for geek and developers, an opportunity for them to hack all evening, on their own ideas, without boring managers or crazy designers Renoir Boulanger (@renoirb) and Stephan Champagne are the 2 co-founders of devLab Montreal. As developers, one of their dreams [...]

Delano Mandelbaum (@solutious) showcased Stella last tuesday at Montreal NewTech. It’s a new monitoring service which can track the uptime, response time, and potential server errors of a web service. If you have a website, a web application, a ecommerce store, or any server, Stella can measure response time once every 5 minutes. It also [...]

A tester tries to use Tribair’s voip android app. Last tuesday, web-savvy users tested 6 different products. A few were already launched, with solid products. That’s the case of Shwowp, a service which helps you track your purchases,  Tribair, a mobile application for iPhone and Android offering free or cheap international calls, or TrainingMobs (see post [...]

Late last week, TrainingMobs announced a new design to its existing members. The new website now boasts colorful graphics, neat copy to explain the site’s advantages, as well as a better interface when showing available workouts. When peeking at the site’s source code, there is probably now a new backend powering the app. It’s a [...]

Bolidea (@bolidea and @alexdao) are organizing and hosting next tuesday Usability Fix. The 2 hour long session aims to find issues in your application’s interface, with users going through the application and giving valuable feedback to the designers and developers of the application. Here ‘s the list of applications featured: MatchFWD. Word of mouth talent hunting [...]

devLAB Montreal (also @devLabMtl and @renoirb on twitter) invites developers today at the group’s first session for 2011. I love the simple pitch: What’s on the menu? Bring your laptop Share knowledge with us Play with things you could not neccessarily tried yet This promises to be an informal, fun and developer-focused event, similar to [...]

Photo from the first MontrealOuvert Hackathon Open government data group MontrealOuvert has announced a second hackathon Saturday Jan 29th. Like the first event, it’s an all-day event dedicated to the development of data APIs, applications, and interfaces relevant to Montreal citizens. The first event gathered gathered a diversity of developers at StationC, all believing in [...]

Thanks to a tweet from @byosko, I’ve discovered a nice web2.0 service aplty named rrrewind In a clean interface, rrrewind shows you today’s most famous content on link aggregators, online video, image hosters such as flickr as well as popular content on amazon and yahoo buzz. I like especially the standardized and unclutterred design which [...]

Local developer Marc-André Cournoyer has announced a new project named dresssed which will provide top themes for rails applications. The service promises work from design professionnals and will give rails developers a good design (graphics and UI) for their new app. Nothing is available yet from the the Dresssed.com website as you will be greeted [...]