TechnoMagicians Blog

Joey deVilla of Tucows hosted another “Ask Tucows” chat yesterday. Brent and I sat in since they used our BlogChat service for the chat. For a transcript of the chat visit Joey's post. This was the second such chat and there are two more scheduled this year: Tuesday, Aug 1 Tuesday, November 7

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Waterboy points out: Toronto Star has a picture to go with the story. Very cool for the star to use Google maps to show a location for the story. That’s a pretty nice touch but it’s static, couldn’t they link to  the proper Google map? What is more interesting is that The Star is likely […]

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Mark Skapinker of Brightspark (a Canadian seed stage software venture fund) has started blogging this month. He already has a couple excellent blog posts: To VC or not to VC? What’s so great about Canadian software developers, anyway? Web 2.0. It may be 2.0 but it's not new Check them out.

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I think Scott Johnson has this just about right: Here’s a simple way to know if you’ve got a good architecture – its what I call (apologize for swearing: The Fuck Factor. Listen to yourself work as you debug code under stress. The quality of your architecture can be determined as a mathematical operation (seriously) […]

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An excellent screencast on Microsoft Atlas (Microsoft's AJAX framework) by Jon Udell and Shanku Niyogi. Jon's blog post about it is here. Atlas actually looks pretty promising for the .NET folks.

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Finally Apple starting to wake up a little bit. They just released Boot Camp which will allow one to run Windows XP on an Intel based MAC. I wrote “wake up a little bit” because what I've been saying for years is that they really just need to go all the way and allow OSX […]

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Interesting little spam device called Spam Cube. However, there doesn't seem to be any indication that they update the spam detection on a regular basis (i.e. like virus definition updates with virus programs). If that is the case this device has about a couple weeks worth of use before it starts letting in all kinds […]

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David Gewirtz has a very good article on why Goodmail is just bad.

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An excellent post by James Robertson: Looks like Rogers Cadenhead has found the dark side of Dave Winer – in the form of a “cease and desist” letter sent from an attorney Winer has retained. This is how Dave treats his erstwhile friends; it's not hard to figure out why fewer and fewer people can […]

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Russell nails a number of things bang on in his post: The worst thing about all the Web 2.0 hype is the complete loss of business perspective. There’s a few companies out there that seem to get it but just about every other new website I’ve seen lately is nothing but features parading as businesses. […]

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