Category: Knowledge
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The arrival of Spring and Seed libraries
Yes, we are expecting snow & rain later today. However, I do think that we have officially made it through winter! While I have given up on having a cute garden in our backyard because our 80lbs dog still has the zoomies and enjoys digging too much, I thought it was the perfect moment to…
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Starting 2023 with more things to know about our city!
I’m back! I took the last few months to: I’ve got a few things to share since then. Remember Montreal Indoor Pools? I feel that as we get older and get used to paying for everything, we forget about the services that our city offers for free. You don’t always have to go to the spa (I love…
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Recycling electronics in Montreal
As a web developer, I have come to own a lot of electronics in my life. I feel shame when I think that we were all told to simply throw away what broke in the 90s and 00s. In 2022, it’s inconceivable to create waste that we know won’t go away. So what are our…
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My Takeaway From Attending C2 Montréal For The First Time
It’s no secret amongst my friends that I have been meaning to attend C2 Montréal for many years now. For the first time, everything worked out for me to be in town and space out my workload to be present for the full 3 days in a row. If you’ve heard of this event before, you…
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My first International Startup Festival in Montreal!
The ticket costs US$799 which can be a bit high if you just want to check it out without being part of a startup but the quality of the festival makes up for it when I compare conferences happening in town that only last 1-2 days. There is also the option of possibly getting free…
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Building Mobile Experiences That Don’t Suck
Frédéric Harper is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Canada, based in Montreal. He gave a very interesting session this morning on what makes a mobile experience successful. What type of application? Frédéric started his session by describing what brings a user to download and use an app: The user wants to perform micro tasks like…
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DRYing CSS for brevity, unity and maintainability
Jeremy Clarke brought a new CSS concept to us today by introducing what he calls the Don’t Repeat Yourself CSS. By working on a big website like Global Voices, he’s had to deal with a lot of challenges on the WordPress platform but also with always optimizing the site at its best. In general, the…
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The HTML5 Landscape
Here is a summary of a talk we attended on Day 1 of Confoo 2012. The HTML5 Landscape by Andrew Lombardi HTML5 was introduced in 2009 and its logo was finalized in 2011. Even though it’s been around for a while, few developers actually use it fully in their projects. The features of HTML5 are…
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WordCamp Montréal 2009
The first edition of Wordcamp Montreal was organized this past weekend at la SAT (a nice change from the usual boring hotel venues!). I was excited to go along with two of my work colleagues, both of which are advanced and experienced WordPress users. My main goal going into this was to really see what…