This past weekend I spent in Toronto working on a solution for a problem definition at the Random Hacks of Kindness event in Toronto. The solution leveraged Ushahidi for a couple of different reasons: Simply, I wanted to learn more about the application which has been deployed thousands of times in Disasters. It was open [...]
With the recent work that I have been engaged in completing (project to be announced later), I came across a few interesting quirks when working with Microsoft’s Bing Maps. The project required the use of polygon shapes to be drawn with a set of latitude and longitude points. That being said, this is a very [...]
As many of you know, I am apart of the team which has developed and deployed Emitter.ca. What many don’t know is that Emitter.ca has leveraged both open source technologies like PHP with a combination of Microsoft’s proprietary platforms like SQL Server, Windows Server 2008 and also Bing Maps API. If you haven’t tried Emitter.ca, [...]
As I mentioned earlier today in a previous post, I have been working on an open data project with a few individuals who reside all across Canada. That being said, as one of the developers and requirements were to use the jQuery DataTable plugin. However, the problem that existed was that we required to have [...]
On this past Friday I attended a Microsoft IE9 Train the Trainer event at Microsoft Canada in Mississauga. Impressed by what I learned about Microsoft’s new browser, I am even more excited about the possibilities that Internet Explorer 9 and Windows 7 will bring to the mix of Desktop and Web Applications. Luckily, the event [...]
