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 …

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 …

Taking a cue from BookCamp London, a group of Canadians have organized an unconference in Toronto to bring together authors, publishers, and technologists to discuss the future of the book.  BookCampTO is a free one day event being held June 6th at the MaRS Centre already has a list of 45 session ideas that people have volunteered to lead, or that people want to hear discussed.
“The future of books, writing, publishing, and the book business in the digital age.”
Some of the 45 session ideas listed for BookCampTO include:

Building community to …