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UXCamp Ottawa is “a one-day conference focusing on the topic of user experience”. It was held in on the University of Ottawa campus on November 5th, 2011. During the sessions, several of the speakers and participants recommended books on the topic they were speaking about. Here are the ones that I noted: Crossing the [...]
Yesterday, Google opened the Google eBookstore to Canadians. I already have the Amazon Kindle application and the Apple iBooks application installed on my iPad. Do I really need to start another eBook library? I thought I’d do a quick price comparison, to see if there was an advantage to using one store over the [...]
I recently purchased a new computer with a solid-state hard drive as the operating system/applications drive. It isn’t a great idea to store your data on these drives, so with each application install, I make sure that it stores its data to my secondary (SATA) hard drive. When I got to configuring my NeatWorks NeatReceipts scanner software, [...]
Just discovered what looks like a change to Bell Sympatico‘s outgoing e-mail servers. My parents both use their own domain name’s for their e-mail. Their internet connection is with Sympatico, which forces them to use Sympatico’s authenticated SMTP server for their outgoing mail. This type of setup is common (in fact, probably the standard now) with [...]
It’s hardly a secret that you’re not supposed to use a simple password to protect your digital information, whether it be on your desktop computer, or with online services. Last month’s hack of the Gawker password database proves yet again that we choose to use simple, easy to remember passwords instead of making the security [...]
One of today’s most popular topics in my Twitter feed was the news that the Federal Court of Canada had come to a ruling on the case of Donna Jodhan vs. Attorney General of Canada. Ms. Jodhan was suing the Government of Canada because she was unable to apply for job online through a Service [...]
This isn’t exactly news, but news to me. Since Windows Vista, you’re now able to create symbolic links on the NTFS file system, a feature that has always existed in the Unix world. Command: mklink /D <link_name> <target_folder> For example, if you’re in the root folder of your C drive, and want to make a [...]
A colleague of mine tweeted today that “There are 3 types of Web 2.0 in Government: Social Media, Collaborative Tools & Open Data”. I’m not sure if I agree with him. Since my thoughts are longer than 140 characters, so I’ll blog about it instead. The Wikipedia definition of Web 2.0, which I think is [...]
The following e-mail was sent to councillors Bob Monette, Rainer Bloess and Rob Jellett, who represent the east end of the City of Ottawa, in which I live. I encourage you all to write your councillors in support of Open Data. – Councillor, As a resident of Ottawa’s East End, and as a software developer, [...]