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During Make Web Not War, we caught up with Mark O’Sullivan and Brendan Sera-Shriar of Vanilla Forums. Vanilla is free, open-source forum software and, like Wordpress, offers a hosted version, as well.
Mark and Brendan discussed how Vanilla strives to do away with a lot of the clutter in other forum platforms. They also touched on [...]

Yesterday was the Make Web Not War conference in Montreal. The keynote was presented by Joël Perras (@jperras) and I have to say it was more than interesting.
It was called “Maker of the web” and talked about us the web developers, our users and the state of the web.

photo by motionblur
According to M. Perras, [...]

Another one of the sessions we attended at the Make Web Not War conference yesterday, was called “Let’s Start to Work in HTML5”. During this session, speaker Benoit Piette gave an overview of what’s to come in HTML5 and how to implement it and begin trying out its supported features.
Speaker: Benoit Piette
Let’s Start to Work [...]

The final session we attended at the Make Web Not War conference yesterday, was called “Cascading” into CSS3: Exploring the features of CSS3 and the use of jQuery as a substitute. For this session, speaker Nathaniel Bagnell explored the features of CSS3.
Speaker: Nathaniel Bagnell
“Cascading” into CSS3: Exploring the features of CSS3 and the use of [...]

This is the second half of our interview with Ilya Grigorik, the CTO of PostRank. PostRank is a company that provides social media monitoring and analytics, by measuring the impact of tweets, blogs, social bookmarks, etc.
In this installment, Ilya discusses the how the PostRank algorithm works. He explained how the PostRank Algorithm assigns different value [...]

Another one of the sessions we attended at the Make Web Not War conference today, was called “Why Just One Isn’t Good Enough.” During this session, the panelist discussed the advantages of being able and willing to develop websites in/with both Microsoft and open-source technologies. The panelists included:

Moderator: Jeremy Wright
John Oxley
Guillaume Bouchard (our CEO)
and Julian [...]

Today we were at Make Web Not War, a conference that was all about “interoperability” — i.e. blending open-source and Microsoft technologies. While there, our CEO, Guillaume Bouchard, delivered a presentation to developers about SEO for dynamic websites.
Guillaume started by reminding the crowd that organic traffic comprises, on average, half of all web traffic. It [...]