A few months ago, MLBR (our DBA) decided to try something different. Rather than sit all day, he modified his desk to be about 14 inches taller, added a cushy mat, and started standing all day. There has been a bit of news over the last year about how bad sitting all day is, so …
At the end of April, we got to have the biggest Hack Day yet, featuring several experiments and projects. Hack Days are our excuse to try our new technology and projects we wouldn’t have time to do otherwise.
Automatic Watering system
Watches the moisture level in soil and flips a relay to turn on a pump
PocketPanda
An Android …
Ever see a special someone and want to let them know you thought they are cute? Our newly formed mobile development team has just launched an app to help out – Flurt.
From the app store:
“Flurt is a location aware social app that allows you to anonymously send and receive flirts.”
Since launching the app …
Last week’s PHP Meetup was a lot of fun with a lot of new faces and a lot of ideas thrown around about where we should go from here. The topic was “Soup to Nuts: Website in an Hour”. I gave a demo on how to quickly launch a blog site …
I joined Tipping Canoe’s resident DBA MLBR this year at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference in Santa Clara, California which ran from April 11th through to the 14th. But it was not just a MySQL Conference anymore. Besides the expected sessions on scaling, optimization and replication techniques for MySQL there was a plethora …
Winnipeg PHP will be holding its inaugural meeting on Monday, March 28th at 5:30 PM. Tipping Canoe is both sponsoring as well as hosting the event at its 101-141 Bannatyne Ave. location. We hope to meet on the last Monday of every month moving forward. We will gauge the response of the community at this …
Tipping Canoe and GDC Manitoba is hosting another Lunch Talk, “Designing For the iPhone – A Walk Through The Trenches”. This one is with guest speaker Phil Letourneau and takes place on March 23 at noon. Phil is giving a presentation on the process of designing an iPhone app. Get all the details here: http://bit.ly/hjUdqb
Last weekend, a bunch of us got to attend the 4th Annual Winnipeg Code Camp. It was the biggest yet with around 150 people in attendance, full of networking opportunities and interesting speakers in a great venue – the Red River College Exchange District (Princess) campus.
JL enjoyed connecting with classmates and noted that 30% of …
On Tuesday, February 25th Winnipeg was witness to a rather unique event for this province called “TEDx Manitoba”. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. For those unfamiliar TED they bill themselves as a small nonprofit devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading”. TED is actually an …
In the Web Industry, things change at a pretty rapid pace. For example, it’s been less than 6 years since Google Maps launched and brought on a renewed interest in Javascript. And only in the last couple of years have all the major browsers upgraded their Javascript engines to run much, much faster than first-generation …
