It Happened to Me

Getting Paid to Work for Ballmer is Pretty Nice

Me and Ballmer at the Microsoft Town Hall in Toronto, October 2009. David “DHH” Heinemeier Hansson recently wrote in the…

15 years ago

Catching Cory Doctorow’s “For the Win” Book Launch Tonight

Once again, my friend and former co-worker (I worked at his startup, OpenCola, during “The Bubble”) Cory Doctorow is holding…

15 years ago

Dinner at Au Pied de Cochon

There are a couple of restaurants with the name Au Pied de Cochon, which translates as “with the pig’s foot”.…

15 years ago

Taking Montreal’s Bixi for a Spin

What is Bixi? If you walk around downtown Montreal, you’ll eventually run into one of these: It’s one of 400…

15 years ago

My Photos from Make Web Not War 2010

I’ll post a more detailed write-up of the Make Web Not War conference later, but I thought that those of…

15 years ago

I’m in Montreal This Week

I’m headed to Montreal this week, where Microsoft Canada’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team (of which I am a member)…

15 years ago

Toronto Developer Lunch, Friday May 14th

Once again, Kristan “Krispy” Uccello has declared another Toronto developer dim sum lunch! It’s at the usual place – Sky…

15 years ago

Toronto-Montreal NerdTrain (Departs Tuesday, May 25th, Returns Friday, May 28th)

A quick reminder: if you’re looking for cheap transport to Montreal for MonDev, Montreal’s Open Source Week (which concludes with…

15 years ago

Mesh Conference: Toronto, May 18th – 19th

The 2010 Mesh Conference – the fifth one – takes place at Toronto’s MaRS Collaboration Centre on Tuesday, May 18th…

15 years ago

“Developer Junior” on Webnation

Last night, “Junior” and I went on Amber MacArthur’s show, Webnation, to talk about our show, Developer Junior. You can…

15 years ago