On a sunny Saturday afternoon in the Annex I had the chance to pull Josh away from his macbook for 20 minutes and ask him some questions about Madeam, the PHP framework that’s been his main project for over two years.
Madeam was recently featured in the June 2009 issue of PHP Arch magazine alongside CodeIgniter, Solar, Zend Framework, and others. One main idea covered in the article was trying to express how Madeam stands out and finds it’s own place in
During the interview I chat with Josh and ask him …

Earlier this week the team at Say Yeah! released the Toronto Events Calendar, which works based on some ideas of a wiki where users can add their own events to the calendar. It’s really a slick tool and I recommend people and event organizers go on and load it up with as many different events that they can think of.
Right off the bat when I saw the calendar, a thought occurred to me.
“This is it. This is what we need.”
The idea of an event wiki is not new, but the …

Ryerson Nursing student Robert Fraser is helping introduce the nursing profession to social media.  Robert runs the Nursing Ideas podcast, and is a recent speaker at the Semi-Annual National Nursing Leadership Conference, where he presented on the topic of social media in nursing.
Taking inspiration from the TED conference, Robert posts video interviews with authorities in the Canadian, and now the international nursing industry, and to the mission of his podcast, spreads ideas to nursing students and nurses.
“I believe that nursing needs to become a more open profession, that shares ideas, …

Connect IT is put on by the students of the Information Technology Management (yours truly is in the same program) at Ryerson University.  Each year the one day conference covers a different theme and topic related to global trends in IT Management.  This year the event’s tag-line is “Small Rooms, Big Ideas : weaving our social fabric with technology”, which focuses on IT helping to create global cities:
The advancements of Information Technology (IT) in the past decade have pushed this discipline and industry into the forefront of solving increasingly complex …

There are two events now happening at MaRS on February 24th.  FacebookCampToronto 5 is starting at 6pm, the event already has 221 confirmed guests on it’s Facebook event page, and before that, just announced today, Jay Goldman will give a talk on “New Models of Web Application Development”:

New Models of Web Application Development
The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with a myriad of sites and users out there that want to share information. But with the growing trends in social media applications also comes …