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While we were at Make Web Not War last week, we got a chance to sit down and chat with Garrett Serack. He’s a software developer who works in the open-source technology center at Microsoft, and his job is to help open-source technologies run better on Windows.
During our chat, Garrett offered some advice for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is the second half of our interview with David Zülke. David is the lead developer for the Agavi Framework, and we caught up with him at Confoo where he delivered several presentations.
In this clip, David delves into the nuts and bolts of the Agavi and the various advantages it offers developers who use [...]

Here is the second and final part of our interview with Joey Devilla from Microsoft Canada. In this clip, Joey discusses Microsoft’s overall open-source strategy. Specifically, he shares with us how Microsoft’s philosophy has evolved, and that the company’s current efforts mean for open-source developers. He also goes into detail about Microsoft’s open-source department functions [...]

In this second and final installment of our interview with Brendan Sera-Shriar, Brendan discusses his thoughts on Microsoft’s efforts to engage the open-source community. As he explains, at first he was a little skeptical, but the more he learned about what Microsoft was doing and who else was involved, the more he realized that Microsoft [...]