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#CUTC notes from Open Text keynote

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 [...]

#CUSEC09: Day 2 report

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 [...]

#CUSEC09: Day 1 report

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 [...]

Radialpoint talk at #cusec09

Lost my notes due to wifi failure. Here’s what I remember. Marty is the speaker. He’s from Radialpoint formerly known as Zero Knowledge Systems, was employee #1 and helped build up from startup to medium sized enterprise. Zero Knowledge based off the crypto proof. Learning is essentially unlimited at the beginning of the career. Innovator’s [...]

Jot notes from #meshU on web metrics

Here’s a dump from the monitoring talk at meshU. Slides are available. Again, formatting is a mess, this time due to OpenOffice. Watching websites Presentation by bitcurrent Used to work for a company called coradiant Roughly one third of the audience monitors their website for uptime Startup 101: New idea -> Execution -> Feedback (did [...]