I emailed the 2-3 listed organizers last week to see how things where coming along with BarCamp Montreal 2006… I self-promoted myself as one of the main organizer, having cleared up my schedule and being really pumped up about this fall conference and tech events season (I am quite fond of these type of events).
Got [...]
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Still looking for good flash developpers in Montreal, rush! So I google "flash montreal" to get a feeling of what comes out… number one hit is my own blog post on the subject.
 Good thing there’s interesting results a bit farther down the page… anyway, contact me if you are interested and available, or pass [...]
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Quote of the day :
At heart, he is a hack-mashing web dadaist, interested in mashups, maps, apis, 3d, and voip at the very least.
Catched in the wild on Greg Sadetsky’s about page via CFD (and before that Mikeof ISF, indirectly).
Yeah it’s also a local link love post… Should meet this guys, we could surely [...]
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Working from home today. Start my desktop computer, haven't worked on it for a while… Familiar linux stuff flowing on the screen during boot process. Then, the not so familiar error : “no screens found” … X server can't start. Shit.
Go in /etc/X11 (learned a while ago how to probe there for config problems). Look [...]
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While there might be 5 Reasons Not to Use WordPress As a CMS I would still posit that using POGE as my guideline, wordpress would still be much more efficient than what most web design companies are pushing for… Read it again folks :
principle of good enough (sometimes abbreviated to POGE) is a rule for [...]
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Yeah, while less is more is quite an nice excuse to blog less… keep an eye on my RSS feed for my daily roundup of links and soon my Digg feed (RSS2) to be integrated in my main feed via some feedcreator magic. And other stuff. News at 11. And 500 items in my bookmarks [...]
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I am in a continuous battle with the fact that less blogging is equivalent with much more consulting work and interesting meetings where I get so much more ideas about what I should be blogging about… It’s a tough balance to achieve but one I am constantly striving for!
In fact, please note that procrastination has [...]
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One of my client has an urgent need for a flash coder (AS2) next week in Montreal. Need to be able to work in a mix of on location/remote. Contact me if you are interested and available.
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Bruce Schneier on TrackMeNot (summary) :
Let’s count the ways this doesn't work
One, it doesn't hide your searches.
Two, it’s too easy to spot.
Three, some of the program’s searches are worse than yours.
And four, it wastes a whole lot of bandwidth.
Hum. Tought so too, I had my spider-geek-sense tingling - this is a bad idea! But I [...]
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4 mozilla developpers are invited to Microsoft. Slashdot reports. And thus is born the BSOD for the day by W33t :
It’s Bill Gates is gaurded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great WGA is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland riddled with fire, ash, and [...]
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