The first week of May marks Open Source Week. Here in Vancouver, Microsoft is helping organize  six events including a Joomla User Group Meet-Up, a Drupal evening mixer , a full day of WordPress, a Linux User Group meeting, and an afternoon of Show & Tell: Storytelling for a Web Made World hosted by The Museum of Vancouver and lastly the sold [...]

Make Web Not War (MWNW) arrives in Vancouver May 7, 2011. MWNW is one of Canada’s first cross-platform conferences, showcasing the most cutting-edge techniques and technologies available to the ever-evolving web community. It is sponsored by Open Source communities from across Canada and Microsoft. Make sure to register sooner rather than later and before April 20 — [...]

From time to time, a company comes out with a brilliant product: clean, sleek, easy to use, and down right sexy. However, something even more rare and interesting than this is the halo brand – a brand that can do no wrong and spits out brilliant products. One worth mentioning is Apple.

I don’t hate Microsoft or at least I don’t currently – that may change with the user experience that I’ve had as of late. I have plenty of friends that curse Microsoft and every move they make. And I am beginning to understand why. There are a multitude of reasons to hate microsoft – Vista, Zune, their corporate anti-trust issues to name just a couple…

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has banned his kids from using Google. It makes me wonder: does he really think the Microsoft-provided service is superior?