Browsing the archives for the web development category
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 [...]
(To see the status of the Amazon data center, see their Service Health Dashboard) If you spend any time online, it should not come as a surprise to you that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) data center in North Virginia has been experiencing serious technical difficulties since this morning. This has affected the availability of many major online web applications [...]
A client recently decided to let an old domain name of theirs expire. It was not the domain name they were using on the e-mail, print materiel, etc. any longer, and saw no reason to keep paying the registration fee. A few weeks later, this decision would turn out to be a big mistake. Their [...]
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 [...]
Mobile GEDS has been running for a while now, so I thought I’d take a look at its usage stats. The first query was just to see what language the site was being queried in. More interesting is the usage by device/browser. For the sake of this graph, I grouped all the Blackberry models together, [...]
The Mobile GEDS application now has a new home. Point your favourite mobile device to: http://geds.gc20.ca/ Enjoy!
Thank to you those who have sent me words of encouragement with regards to the Ottawa Garbage Collection iCalendar Project. I decided to change the way the calendars are produced. Instead of having a calendar for each zone (4 zones in total) containing bilingual data, the iCalendar files now produce separate files for each day [...]