Image by Matthew Burpee via Flickr I didn’t make it to mesh or meshU this year. Long story. While I missed out on a lot of great talks I’m able to find a fair bit of content elsewhere. First, MeshU. Leigh Honeywell of hacklab.to has her slides on writing more secure code up on her [...]
Image by Brajeshwar via Flickr Daniel Debow of Rypple is speaking. Talking about startups. First startup was Workbrain. Grew quickly since 2000, sold in 2007 for $227 million. Grew revenue by about $20 million US per year since 2001. Latest startup is Rypple, started about six months ago.
Image by m.gifford via Flickr The speaker was Eugene Roman from Open Text. About 10% of the crowd has heard of Open Text. Eugene’s job is to change that. Started at Waterloo from two professors. First project was to put the Oxford dictionary online. Made the first internet search engine. Largest ECM vendor as of [...]
It’s been what feels like ages since CUSEC 2009 has ended. I had a blast, even though there weren’t quite enough academic talks, but it looks like that will be changed in the next conference lovingly dubbed CUSEC 20 GOTO 10. In place of a day three report I offer a link to Ben Kane’s [...]
Yesterday was not nearly as full of a day for me, partly due to technical difficulties. I started out the day with James Golick‘s tutorial on dynamic languages. Unfortunately he couldn’t get the projector working due to issues with his MacBook. Since it was a tutorial the projector was essential, so after a several attempts [...]
I’m reclining in bed with a beer and I have to be up in seven hours. Today was a long but good day. I enjoyed the talks and my wander through the city. I sat through three keynotes, ate poutine with smoked meat on it, visited SAQ, checked out the Eaton Centre and had a [...]
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