Monthly Archives: October 2006

Montreal Metro Map with Google

A nice mashup by Robin. Only thing left is to overlay this image over it [via Seb's del.icio.us stream]

Tags: mashup, montreal, maps, quebec

Praized

One of the startups I am involved in is now a bit more public than it was… We are not completely out of ninja mode, but we do have an incorporation, a name and a logo. You can read the blog and check out our Digg queue.
This one is self funded (time+effort) and puts in [...]

BarCamp Montréal followup

Simon's pictures are now up on Flickr… Check out the post-mortem discussion on the BarCamp wiki. More at Patrick’s, from Evan, the kokoromi collective, Sébastien Pierre, Simon Law, great spillover discussion at Boris’ and coverage in the Gazette…
Let’s do another one in about six months, shall we? Let’s say, April 21st 2007?

Tags: barcamp, event, montreal

Cleanup…

Pulling embedded styles from your template to a linked stylesheet to be “more clean” is such a digital equivalent to cleaning your bathroom that it’s not funny.
You know you have to do it. You have to do it. You hate it. You do it. And then this feeling of satisfaction is so overwhelming. Yeah. [...]

PaidContent gets a redesign…

Long overdue, it was one of the highest in the great content / ugly desing ratio… The new design is slick and the content is *still* great. The post update cycle is frequent and the mix of short news and in depth analysis is one of the best for a media blog.
Rafat Ali has been [...]

You can now subscribe by email

You can now get the latest from A Frog in the Valley by email. Just use the form on the email subscription page. It’s a service provided by Feedburner, where I also host and track my Feed subscriptions.

PHP developper 4 weeks in Montréal (again)

If you are a PHP developper (intermediate level, 2-4 yrs exp) in the Montréal area available for a full time contractual job, duration of 4 weeks…. Job to start probably next week.

Great redesign /Â hard to read!

Had some feedback about my redesign (a small tweak on the superb hemingway wordpress theme)… I got some great look, nifty and slick comments. I also received two it’s hard to read! emails. Here is my quick tutorial on solving this issue for A Frog in the Valley and most other websites designed using [...]

Wordpress question : how not to display a specific category name?

Question for wise wordpress hackers reading this blog…
Is there a way to specifically not show a certain category by id when calling a list of categories from the function “the_category” within the Loop?
I want to use categories to “route” post to the home page of different sections of this blog (english and french) so I [...]

Back to out regular schedule… for a while

After Barcamp Montréal this week-end, the Digimart confenrence last week and Webcom the week before, my two weeks conference marathon is pretty much over (except for Montreal Game summit in a few weeks).
I have a tons of ideas to share and two startups officially launching before the end of the yeay… this weekend Austin referred [...]