While sitting at the latest Bug Hunt 3.0 (held at Notman house) I realized just how more effective it is compared to solo bug hunts. At Notman it’s 15 techies actively looking for bugs in a live shoulder-to-shoulder environment. You are not sitting alone in some dark room, but surrounded by people that get it. [...]
Upcoming: TheBugHunt with mTrip, iWeb, matchFWD and ArtSumo
For those interested in application usability, and also those interested in hooking up with technology companies, a bug hunt event is scheduled this thursday July 28th, 6pm at Notman House (51 Sherbrooke west). Like in previous editions, the idea is simple: have a diverse panel of users go through your application, at the same time, [...]
Largest Tech Conference in Canada call for speakers
Confoo.ca has announced they’re now accepting applications for sessions for next year’s conference. As stated, they’re accepting a very broad range of topics, both in technologies as well as in development practices. Technologies include the most popular languages and frameworks, aimed at attracting a large number of developers to the conference, and practices include project [...]
Everyone loves Dishcrawl with MtlNewTech and Mtl Girl Geeks dinner
We’ve got so many events here in Montreal, and anyone can find a group to their taste. Most people go around the different groups the first time, then stick to the same group. Dishcrawl was *the* sensation last week. Programmers, marketers, bankers, cupcake makers, or cineasts were invited to “crawl” to 6 different fancy restaurants [...]
International Startup Festival in pictures
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[Upcoming] OWASP Montreal, VEGA, July 21st
The local chapter of OWASP, an international group dedicated to application security, invites anyone in Montreal interested in web application security to a presentation next thursday at 6:30pm. It’s going to be in Rom A-2330 at École des Technologies Supérieures, with David Mirza, founder of Subgraph, presenting their new open source product VEGA. VEGA was [...]
Travel Guide Authors’ Voyage On-line
Whenever you have an older couple with matching caps you know there’s going to be an interesting story. Especially when you meet them at a Notman house BBQ event which attracts some of the most promising and successful entrepreneurs. When I asked if they’re a Start-Up, Sandra laughed and said “no, we’re more like End [...]
