YearOneLabs are organizing early next year a hackathon, on Jan 22nd, at RPM. It will be a day fully dedicated to application development on the Google App Engine platform. Sean Lynch, product manager for Google App Engine, will be in Montréal that day to help developers jumpstart with App Engine. Although Google App Engine has [...]
LAYAR and MixAR featured at ARMTL
Yesterday, coworking space Station-C featured ARMTL’s second meetup, with 15 or so developers, designers and entrepreneurs discussing augmented reality’s potential. The talks covered available hardware on the market, mainly mobile devices, and also discussed available image recognition and 3D software on the market. There were lots of interaction, with a few fun moments where we [...]
Hackers making great strides for open Montreal Data
With MontrealOuvert’s first Hackathon last Saturday, more than 20 developers and hackers gathered to research and tinker about ways to get, display, and make available data from the City of Montréal and other affiliated organizations. As commented in a previous mtw post, MontrealOuvert aims to open up local data access to citizens. One of the [...]
#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 [...]
