MyTTC.ca

One of the things that has saved me in my short stint here at Seattle is the fantastic Google Transit service. I don’t have a car, and navigating the bus schedule tables and maps in the unintuitive local transit website is a constant source of frustration.
Now, Google Transit is already available for plenty of cities [...]

Democamp Toronto 16

We had Democamp 16 last night at the Toronto Board of Trade, and it was one of the best I’ve been to — thanks to David Crow, Jay Goldman, Joey deVilla, Leila Boujnane, and Greg Wilson for pulling it off again. Great demos by Igor Foox (on UTest, an application to help students get into [...]

Democamp 15 and ConceptShare

Democamp 15 took place last Monday (Oct 29) at the Great Hall of the University of Toronto’s Hart House, and I went with high expectations after hearing all that good stuff about the previous Democamp. Sadly, I had to leave early –and rather unsatisfied– before the Ignite presentations, which I was looking forward to.
My dissatisfaction [...]

Missed DemoCamp 14

…due to being stranded in the sister republic of Markham. And the fact that I acted too late to get a ticket. This is sad since it was apparently one of the best DemoCamps so far. Greg Wilson, Lillian Angel, and Jeremy Handcock report.

Toronto Democamp 13

Last night was Democamp night –the thirteenth in Toronto, to be exact, and a nice improvement over some of the previous iterations.
To start, Mike Beltzner (User experience lead from Mozilla) and Betsy Weber (from TechSmith) gave an invited 15-minute talk each. Mike Beltzner’s comments about managing a large open source project were insightful, and reminded [...]

Toronto DemoCamp 11

On Monday we had the latest iteration of DemoCamp (again at the MaRS facilities) and the last of the year. Turnout is still high, with a healthy dose of newcomers, and although there were quite nice demos, some people seemed to have been left unsatisfied. Part of the dissatisfaction, I think, should actually be blamed [...]

Because they can – Democamp Toronto 10

If there was a theme in yesterday’s Democamp 10, it was people building stuff just because they could. Most demos were of software that doesn’t really fulfill a need, but their developers felt it would be cool to do it.
The first demo was an exception to this, and one of the high points of the [...]

DemoCamp Toronto 9

Yesterday we had the ninth Toronto DemoCamp, at No Regrets. I got the impression that the crowd was noisier than usual -at times I had trouble listening to the presenters. A brief summary of the demos:

DictaBrain – A phone-to-blog service: call to a phone number, dictate whatever you want to have in your blog, and [...]