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iPhone in Canada

So there’s been a lot of talk on twitter and other blogs about the iPhone finally coming to Canada via Rogers.  At least in an official sense.  Lots of people already have the iPhone in Canada, but they miss out on some of the enhanced features that the AT&T subscribers down south have (along with [...]

Whuffie Social Capital

A local techie blogged about The Whuffie Factor: The 5 Keys for Maxing Social Capital and Winning with Online Communities.  Whuffie is a term that attempts to describe one’s social capital with respect to the web as we see it today.  For those wanting to build a community, make it better, or just pick up [...]

Mozilla MozCamp

I made a trip to MozCamp organized by Shane Caraveo at ActiveState.  It was a meetup designed to bring together XUL developers from the surrounding Victoria / Vancouver area.  There was a decent response with about 20+ people representing various companies with notables such as Mozilla Messaging, Sxipper, Songbird, Activestate (obviously), and Flock.

Two of the [...]

DemoCamp Vancouver

What’s best way to follow up DemoCampVictoria01? Go to DemoCampVancouver06 – Gaming edition. I saw a lot of familiar faces from the last time I was over; Boris, Brendon, Greg, and Roland just to name a few.

Parveen Kaler talked about iPhone game development, specifically the medium and what it means. He mentioned [...]

Google App Engine Invite

I was a little bummed when I was madly hitting refresh on the Google App Engine and couldn’t get through. Once I did get through the 10K limit was already hit, all within about 15 minutes of release. I was trying to be one of the 10,000 developers allowed access after I saw [...]

Google App Engine

Update: The 10k limit has already been hit. Wow. < 15 mins.

I saw the live Scoble feed on the Google App Engine announcement, so here are the details:

500MB storage
Available to the first 10,000 developers as of 9PM PST
10GB Bandwidth/day
200 Million megacycle CPU/day
Python code only

For a well-written app, Google says this should equate to [...]

DemoCampVictoria01 – Success!

Well, what an amazing lineup of people we had and how well did that turn out! Jessica Pryde, Wendy Pryde and Dave Chard at Juliet did an OUTSTANDING job at making DemoCamp one of the – correction – *the* swankiest get together ever put on in our vibrant not-so-little town of Victoria. Dave’s buildings [...]

Community Platforms & Community Harmonization

This morning I read a post from David Crow on “Community Platforms“. It got me thinking about our local community, that being Victoria and Vancouver. I have always been a supporter of community platforms and open source, but I’d like to see that go further into the real world. Vancouver has quite [...]

Raid 5 /w Synology CS-407

I’ve been meaning to setup a backup server for quite some time now, however it was hard to get around to actually doing it. Until I met the Synology cs-407. It’s sold as an appliance that has a number of great features: Web interface for configuration, IP Camera integration, iTunes network share, webserver [...]