Welcome back to the Facebook Demo Q&A Series. Today let’s welcome Vancouverite Rob Cottingham (Social Signal) - the creative mind behind Green Gifts. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about your Green Gifts Facebook app? Rob Cottingham: Developed for BC Hydro, Green Gifts allows users to send free sustainability-themed virtual gifts to...

Welcome back to the Facebook Demo Q&A Series. Today let’s welcome Vancouverite Rob Cottingham (Social Signal) - the creative mind behind Green Gifts. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about your Green Gifts Facebook app? Rob Cottingham: Developed for BC Hydro, Green Gifts allows users to send free sustainability-themed virtual gifts to...

In our new Greater Vancouver Web 2.0 Startup/Service Map we list companies in the web design, development, strategy, branding; software startups; web service startups and mobile startups categories. We also list individuals offering professional services. Interested in getting listed on our map? Send a posting to our mailing list/forum and...

In our new Greater Vancouver Web 2.0 Startup/Service Map we list companies in the web design, development, strategy, branding; software startups; web service startups and mobile startups categories. We also list individuals offering professional services. Interested in getting listed on our map? Send a posting to our mailing list/forum and...

Disclaimer: Dennis Knothe is not a spokesperson for Nokia. All statements are personal opinions. Welcome back to episode two of the Q&A on the mobile web with Dennis Knothe (Nokia). Q: How many Nokia phones/mobile devices do you have? Any favorites? Old or New? Dennis Knothe: Of course, I’ve had, or at least used for a while, numerous...

Disclaimer: Dennis Knothe is not a spokesperson for Nokia. All statements are personal opinions. Welcome back to episode two of the Q&A on the mobile web with Dennis Knothe (Nokia). Q: How many Nokia phones/mobile devices do you have? Any favorites? Old or New? Dennis Knothe: Of course, I’ve had, or at least used for a while, numerous...

Welcome back to episode two of the Q&A with Vancouverite and Nitobian Brian LeRoux. Q: You’ve played with Vlad the Deployer. Any insight on how it compares with Capistrano and how it’s better or worse? Brian LeRoux: We’re using Vlad on a few projects here at Nitobi. It’s less code and thus easier to maintain but...

Welcome back to episode two of the Q&A with Vancouverite and Nitobian Brian LeRoux. Q: You’ve played with Vlad the Deployer. Any insight on how it compares with Capistrano and how it’s better or worse? Brian LeRoux: We’re using Vlad on a few projects here at Nitobi. It’s less code and thus easier to maintain but...

Disclaimer: Dennis Knothe is not a spokesperson for Nokia. All statements are personal opinions. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your work at Nokia? Dennis Knothe: I hold a computer engineering degree from the “Hochschule Ulm” in Germany. I have been working at Nokia since 1999. I first worked on the S40 [...]

Disclaimer: Dennis Knothe is not a spokesperson for Nokia. All statements are personal opinions. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your work at Nokia? Dennis Knothe: I hold a computer engineering degree from the “Hochschule Ulm” in Germany. I have been working at Nokia since 1999. I first worked on the S40 [...]

Peter Armstrong - the Ruby/Rails meetup organizer - posted the agenda for the upcoming December Ruby/Rails meetup. Peter writes: Title: Using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) with Rails by Scott Patten (Spatten Design) Summary: Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is an online storage system. It can be used for backup, serving assets...

Peter Armstrong - the Ruby/Rails meetup organizer - posted the agenda for the upcoming December Ruby/Rails meetup. Peter writes: Title: Using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) with Rails by Scott Patten (Spatten Design) Summary: Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is an online storage system. It can be used for backup, serving assets...

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your work at Nitobi? Brian LeRoux: I am a software architect at Nitobi on the custom application development services team. We build on the Nitobi Complete UI Ajax Suite and in house expertise with custom development services for a variety of companies with many different [...]

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your work at Nitobi? Brian LeRoux: I am a software architect at Nitobi on the custom application development services team. We build on the Nitobi Complete UI Ajax Suite and in house expertise with custom development services for a variety of companies with many different [...]

Welcome back to episode two of the Q&A with CSS Zen Master and Web Directions North 2008 organizer Dave Shea. Q: Any comments on Microsoft’s Silverlight’s style language and on the future direction of CSS and web design? Any comments on how it’s better or worse than CSS? Dave Shea: I see Silverlight competing with Flash...