Entries from June 2007

June 26, 2007

Linkr, the host it yourself link sharing site

Are you using e-mail to share links with your friends and coworkers ? Soooooo 2006 !
But you don’t want to use digg, reddit or delicious because you want to keep it private and pertinent. Sadly none of these are open-source.
Enter Linkr!
Linkr is…

built on Camping, the 4K framework by _why
open source
about 400 LOC, so easy to [...]

June 22, 2007

Montreal, next week in Tech

Another sign Montreal is becoming a central point in tech startup ?
DemoCampMontreal3 on JuneJuly 26th. I’ll be there sans faute! If you’ve missed the first two ones, you have to come to this one! This is a real casual and fun event, you can just come, sit, watch the demos and leave or talk with [...]

June 21, 2007

Digged!

After I made it to the digg.com front page yesterday
at our Standout(Temporary)Office™, we stared at this screen laughing:

That’s when I’m glad I didn’t chose to host my blog!
Thanks to all of you who digged the story and welcome to all the new readers. I’ll send you a mug with my face on it when I [...]

June 19, 2007

Don’t you wanna feel the RMagick pain ? (or Guide to installing RMagick on Mac OS X)

If you’re bored at your next family party or are looking to light up a late night party with friends you should try installing RMagick on your Mac. It’s so rewarding when you finally go trough it 6 hours later, exhausted, hungry and with a sense of relief that make you feel like you could [...]

June 19, 2007

Tim Lister

Tim Lister is one of my favourite author and speaker. He’ve found the perfect sweet spot between humorous and informative speech and writing. You can feel his passion when he talks and in his books. Just read any of Peopleware’s chapter and you’ll be more energized then after drinking a pack of Red Bull.
Today while [...]

June 18, 2007

Reaching 10000 visitors

Look at the bottom right, 10000 visitors, wow!

Thanks to all of you who read my blog and take the time to comment. This means a lot to me!
Now on to world domination!

June 15, 2007

My new Standout Computer!

Today at the office, I setup my new workplace and computer. Thanks to Fred and Ben, they even let me use the bathroom every 2 hours! And they said I might get a chair when we ship!!! Awesome!

Apart from that, we received some fruitful deliveries.

That’s right! A bran new MacBook Pro (I know the picture [...]

June 14, 2007

How to land yourself the job of your life (in 5 simple steps!)

Oh what a catchy title! Notice I’ve used “simple steps” not “easy steps”. Getting your dream job is hard! If it wasn’t, everyone could do it and every good position would be filled, worlds would collide and I would have an iPhone in my pocket right now.
So, since I’ve just landed my dream job and [...]

June 12, 2007

Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast

Just came back from my first Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast. I had a really great time and lots of interesting talks with James Golick of ZipLocal, Philippe K. Chrun of of MyCarpoolStation.com, Adrien O’Leary of Ines, Mitch Cohen of ClixConnect, Heri of MadMedia, Guillaume Thoreau, Alok from FonoMe and Frederic Brunel who’s doing some crazy [...]

June 8, 2007

StandoutJobs: here I come!

That’s right! I’m StandoutJobs new Ruby Guru!
If you’ve been living under a rock for some time, StandoutJobs is one of the hottest new Montreal startup about to change to whole recruiting experience!
Three months ago I would never dreamed about having a job like this in Montreal. I though that things like this only happen in [...]