August 2009
Pimp ma botte →
Une version acadienne de Pimp my ride. Ça r’garde slick.
J’adore leur utilisation de “point”, comme dans “point besoin d’un grand dérangement d’tes chulottes alright”!
De leur mort annoncée… →
À les écouter, je trouve ça pathétique pour la survie de notre culture dans le monde numérique…
Tous les utilisateurs de disques durs, de clés USB, de CD-R, d’ordinateurs, de iPod sont des…
July 2009
Si j’avais à parler de WordPress à des gens d’agence, je leur dirais que c’est le Photoshop (ou le QuarkXpress, autre époque!) du blogue…
If thing goes as planned there will be a WhereCamp MTL this fall, November 23rd right after the Geomatics 2009 conf… stay tuned. #geoweb
RT @acroll: @om You have to come visit Montreal sometime. Lots good reasons: Food, startups, big gov investment. +Awesome local community!
TwitArea : partager vos lieux sur Twitter →
… aux USA et Canada seulement.
Praized Media vient de mettre en ligne TwitArea. Cette nouvelle application pour Twitter.com permet aux utilisateurs de facilement ajouter et partager une…
The Open Location Roadshow →
When we first thought about the concept we now call Open Location it seemed a valid one but we didn’t know if it would work. Although there are exceptions such as OpenStreetMap and GeoCommons,…
RF: Let’s Buy Delicious Back from Yahoo! (via http://ff.im/5WU2H - posted by Joshua Schachter) http://ff.im/5XeA7
New discussion group for Android users in Canada →
If anyone’s using an Android phone in Canada and wanting to get some help or just share their experience, come by to this new group:
Android users in Canada
Visit this group
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Still at Praized HQ in >Montréal< http://przd.com/ZxB-rQ catching up after a long day that included the first Open Web Foundation meeting…
Just added myself to http://beta.nearyoo.com location directory. My page: http://near.st/u/afrognthevalley #nearyoo
Forgot to mention that TwitArea serves all the places pages in full #microformats glory. Makes us geek-friendly and buzzword compliant ;-)
RT @PinboardIN: Today’s fun fact, did you know that delicious.com is under Yahoo’s Search division? Oups!
Choosing a non-relational database; why we... →
currently attending the first (virtual) meeting of the Open Web Foundation #OWF
On lance un nouveau produit pour Twtiter aujourd’hui, TwitArea pour ajouter des places à vos tweets - http://bit.ly/xbuQy #praized
RT @Praized: We’re launching a new product today. TwitArea, the Easy Way to Share Places on Twitter. http://bit.ly/xbuQy
Praized Media News: Introducing TwitArea, the Easy... →
Over on the Praized product blog, we just announced the launch of our new product TwitArea. Built with the Praized platform on a Firefox add-on, this new Twitter.com application allows users…
WordPress Basis Theme – Also In HTML5 →
Since I deal with WordPress (version 0.71), I have my own theme layout created, which I always use to start with a new theme - WP Basis.
I published this theme under GPL since then and it is…
Today’s News and Yahoo!’s Developer Program →
Given the Yahoo! Microsoft news today, many of you are wondering what will happen to Yahoo!’s search offerings for developers. In particular, we’ve received a number of questions about our two…
Planning a mega dev/geek event in Montreal, March 2010 - PHP, Ruby, Python, Javascript, DB, WebOps, OpenWeb, Standards. Going to be awesome!
We will have a beer shoot-out this March, we already have a house keg of phpBeer & pythonBeer planned, anyone aware of a rubyBeer? #confoo
Montreal workers just cut a major electric cable with a big POW on Ste-Catherine & St-Alexandre we are out of electricity at Praized. FAIL!
Just finished reviewing a bunch of communities at http://praized.com/communities - the list is growing!… http://ff.im/5Qujt
Home - github-trac - GitHub →
Time to plan another Montreal DrupalCamp? http://groups.drupal.org/node/24728 (I’m willing to give a hand, too) http://ff.im/5QjX3
Evan Prodromou wins Open Source Award →
At last week’s OSCON conference event, Evan Prodroumou won an award from Google and O’Reilly Media for his work on identi.ca and the laconi.ca platform.
OSCON is by far the conference…
5 questions for Matt Biddulph →
Matt Biddulph takes lovely photos. And apparently when he isn’t taking photos he find times to be the founder and CTO of Dopplr. Which makes us happy, because we’re big Dopplr fans….
RT @chocoMB @znarf: La Distribution: wordpress + dokuwiki + bbpress (forum) ready to go. http://ladistribution.net/… http://ff.im/5PI9Q
The Nichepaper Manifesto - Umair Haque http://ff.im/5Nrlj
The launch years of today’s most popular websites http://ff.im/5NsYJ
Quitte le bureau plus tôt pour aller s’occuper de trucs importants #fb
Handle 700 Percent More Requests Using Squid and... →
This post on www.ilovebonnie.net documents some impressive system performance improvements by the addition of Squid Cache (a caching proxy) and APC Cache (opcode cache for PHP).
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Projet citoyen de ruelle verte, financé sans l’aide de la ville (je fais ça dans mon quartier!) http://bit.ly/cGGo6 (via delicious/straup)
DIY back-alley greenings in the Plateau →
“When the Plateau borough refused their request for funding of a lane-way beautification project for a second time, a group of neighbours on Laval and Hotel de Ville decided to take matters into…
Gartner Hype Cycle 2009: What’s Peaking, What’s... →
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Great recap of “technology” markets. Lots of food for tought in there.
Gartner maintains something called hype cycles for various technologies. What’s a hype cycle?…
PostGIS 1.4.0 Released →
Great news. The open source spatial RDBMS software PostGIS 1.4.0 has been released. This is a major update. From the announcement: “This new version of PostGIS includes substantial…
Two-way Search →
When I started DaveNet in 1994 I had a bunch of ideas for products that I hoped one day to develop. But I had been waiting so long — it was becoming apparent that I would never get to…
au téléphone avec @sebprovencher à tenter de lui trouver une borne Bixi qui a des vélos disponibles sur le Plateau #bixifail
The Fine Line Between Informing and Spamming Your... →
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Good background for thinking about acceptable social norms in new media.
As of this morning, I’ve got 27,162 followers on Twitter. I’ve developed this following the…
Testing AppFire this morning (well, as soon as I get a beta code, mmm, @OurielOhayon? ;-)
Thinking about a foursquare/praized api mashup…
10-4 Roger, processus de déconnexion à la matrice en cours, dans 5,4,3,2,1…
WordPress freelancers available for gigs in Montreal? See http://bit.ly/1UGFxv for details #wcmtl http://ff.im/5FV3k
AdSense for Feeds: What's all the hubbub about... →
I think I found a new name for my blog “rebirth”, a quote from Ray Ozzie: “And so we just need better tools”…. http://ff.im/5FI0n
Hey there’s no more beer in our fridge! That will teach us to have #NoSQL meetups in our office! Going to get some… http://ff.im/5FNmA
Speak out on Copyright http://bit.ly/UPa1Y to get citizen participation in Canadian govt’s copyright consult (via… http://ff.im/5FmS7
Today’s is FriendFeedFriday, no twitter client running, just FriendFeed thru IM/Web, an experiment in tweaking the firehose to my needs #FFF
RT @ginades: Repertoire des événements Geeks à Montréal http://is.gd/1Jmqt Vous en avez d’autres? [il y tous les *Camp aussi]