We host a stack of exciting events at TWG for Toronto's amazing tech and entrepreneur communities. Events like Startup Stories: An Evening with ShopLocket , where we'll be sitting down with the CEO of one of Canada's rising tech superstars to find out about customer development, user acquisition and startup marketing. Being able to run events that touch on design, development, entrepreneurship and creativity is something we feel great about doing - and was one …
Join us for a heart to heart with one of Canada's most exciting young startups. Named one of " Seven Canadian Tech Stars to Watch " by the Financial Post, CEO and Co-Founder Katherine Hague will be sharing her secret sauce for startup success. From product development and getting her product to market to customer acquisition and smart marketing tactics, this is your opportunity to hear from a rising star of the Toronto tech scene in an intimate and relaxed setting.
- Global Nerdy: A Great Time at TechCrunch Toronto Last Night
…science offerings, but full game development academic programs seem to be offered mostly by what we in Canada call "colleges" ("community colleges" in the U.S.) or post-secondary vocational colleges like triOS . WIth relatively few avenues for formal training in game development, is there any value in being certified?
Hence the Class Warfare panel being hosted at the University of Toronto's Bahen Centre for Information Technology ( 40 St. George…
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- Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup Book Tour
- New Relic: Case Study: New Relic Helps Uken Games Build a Global Gaming Business
- Giles Bowkett: Teaching The Robots To Sing: Episode 2 (TDD With Jasmine-Node)
- Calvin Klein: Calvin Klein Moso Leaves Bedding
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Let's talk about OpenHack
Half of Canada's full-time R&D people are in Ontario
R&D is an investigative process that improves upon industry standard practice leading to:
Development of a new product or process
Improvement of an existing product or process
Challenging the knows, the folk tales
Successful innovation requires formal project management of R&D
Leads to greater confidence when undertaking riskier projects
The processes you adopt effectively transform company culture so innovation …
…capitol of Columbia, or ( GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time ( Canada) , depending on if you've recently sprung forward or fallen back. This is due to the fact that these time zones come before ( GMT-04/05:00) Eastern Time ( US & Canada) alphabetically.
While this approach will still give you the accurate time for the present day, Daylight Savings standards of other regions could affect your code in the future. If your app does not care about the future, this solution is fine. My …
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #941
- Global Nerdy: Whyday is Friday
- Rails on the Run - Home: Rails or Merb, what's best for you?
- RubyLearning Blog: The Ongoing Vigil of Software Security
- Software by Rob: Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more...
- John Barnette: Versioning HTTP APIs
Sofia Canada:
Vancouver, British Columbia Caribbean:
Martinique Chile
Santiago China:
Shanghai Costa Rica:
San Jose Croatia:
Zagreb Czech Republic:
Prague Denmark:
Copenhagen …
- New Relic: Lean Forward - It's Not Just for Startups
Parksville, British Columbia, Canada
Provo, Utah
Saratov, Russia
Tempe, Arizona
Vancouver, Canada
Vineland, Ontario
If we had limited ourselves to only looking within a commuter's distance of the Chicago office, we would have missed out on a lot of great people.
- Ruby Inside: 9 Ruby and Rails Jobs for January 2011
- World Wide Webber: CFP: ECOWS 2011 - The 9th IEEE European Conference on Web Services
- Positive Incline: Upcoming
- Kalzumeus Software: Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake
- The Life Of A Radar: Gone from GetUp
- DevChix: Meet devChix member Aimee Daniells
…ConFoo 2013 will be held on February 25 through March 1 in Montreal, Canada.
The team just opened its call for papers. Candidates can submit proposals until September 23 . Consult the call for papers page for details and to start submitting. That page also explains what expenses ConFoo can cover for speakers. You can even get advice on how to write proposals.
The call for papers is public, meaning that all proposals get published on the website for others to vote …
§ S3 gets CORS .
§ Scripting Nginx with Lua : two great technologies that go well together.
§ Github, Rails and Heroku. News worthy? Yes, when it's an open source application for voter registration .
§ Not wallet friendly: outgrow.me , a marketplace for successfully funded Kickstarter & Indiegogo projects.
§ Only in Canada: " Global strategic maple syrup reserve ".
§ What Killed the Linux Desktop :
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- How Software is Built: Interview with Shaun Walker - DotNetNuke Co-Founder
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: The Asterisk On Open
- Giles Bowkett: iPad!
- Opscode Blog: Omnibus Chef Packaging
- Jake Scruggs: Ruby Midwest 2010 Friday
First of all, I didn't write it. It was written by a Ruby developer from Canada named Marc-André Cournoyer.
Jeremy Ashkenas read it before writing CoffeeScript, and the first version of the CoffeeScript compiler used this book (and I believe its code) as a starting point; however, the CoffeeScript compiler's been completely rewritten since then (at least once).
It's not a comprehensive overview of lexical theory and doesn't aim to be; its goal is to get you …
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- Unspace Blog: Throne of JS
- Global Nerdy: Salmagundi for January 10, 2012
- PeepCode Products: Meet CoffeeScript
- Ruby Inside: Rails 3.1 Adopts CoffeeScript, jQuery, Sass and.. Controversy
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: CoffeeScript: Spartan JavaScript