Montreal Tech Watch

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 [...]

WordCampMontreal & Recon upcoming this week

If you are using wordpress, then head over next Saturday & Sunday to WordCampMontreal 2011. Of course, the event is also aimed at wordpress designers, wordpress developers, and generally speaking, to anyone who is blogging. As in previous years, the conference has 2 tracks, one for wordpress development, and another for bloggers. See the schedule [...]

More than 100 speakers planned at ConFoo.ca!

Since its origins as a conference for php developers, ConFoo has evolved into Montréal’s biggest web conference for developers, if not Canada’s biggest tech conference. They’ve unveiled today an enormous lineup of speakers for the upcoming 2011 edition, with more than 100 speakers (currently 110), from Montréal and Canada of course, but also a solid [...]

Montreal featured at #LeWeb

This week’s startup event is LeWeb, currently underway in Paris, France. The event features an impressive lineup, and is one of Europe’s biggest startups conference, gathering european angels, VCs, entrepreneurs and of course the startup ecosystem such as bloggers, media, star developers etc. It’s an excellent opportunity for Montréalers who wish to go international, with [...]

#wcmtl WordCampMontreal gathers all wordpress fans

As told by netfirms sponsor, WordPress is the #1 installed blogging and cms software. It has been embraced by corporations, consultants, SMBes, but also big publishing companies such as Wall Street Journal or LeMonde.fr. I know it’s my #1 recommended software for anyone wanting a web presence, with a website and a template up up [...]

Web 2.0 Expo: The First Day

Greetings from very chilly San Francisco where the 2nd edition of the SF Web 2.0 Expo, organized by O’Reilly and Techweb, is going strong. Yesterday was the kick-off to the geeky celebration of all things surrounding social computing, with a full-day of seminars and demos for those willing to shell out a few extra bucks. [...]