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SNTTT — Sneak Preview of a Groundbreaking New Social Product Recommendation App!

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Wednesday 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm, Nov 14 (20071114)
at Pub 101

Event Brief Description: *SNTTT (Social Network Theory Think Tank) — Format: 10m social, 10m talk, Questions and discussion. This regular activity is hosted by Darcy Whyte (Darcy@Siteware.com) of JumpSocial. Contact Darcy Whyte for details about future session locations and times. Ideas and feedback are welcome! Please RSVP to Darcy@Siteware.com if you do not indicate in JumpSocial that you are attending. Also feel free to add Darcy@Siteware.com as a jumpsocial contact. It’s in the 2nd floor of the pub.

Event Description: ChoiceBot is an Ottawa startup that currently sells a successful, disruptive product search and selection technology to shopping sites. The core technology lends itself very well to p2p communication about products in a social context, and we’re designing an app that enables users to do just that on SN’s, blogs, product review sites, etc. At this SNTTT get-together, we’ll show some design concepts and be looking for suggestions, critiques, ideas, etc., before we start coding.

Nick Desbarats is ChoiceBot’s founder and CEO and has been part of the Ottawa software scene for over 15 yrs, having co-founded three companies including BitFlash Inc., which raised over $23M in venture financing and sold to OpenText in 2004.

Event Interests: No Cover, Talk, Seminar, Cocktail Party, Business, Marketing, Planning, VC and Angel, Mentoring, Technology

Pub 101: 101 York Street, Ottawa, Canada, 613-789-3515

Brief Description of Venue: A 3 Level Pub/Sports Bar/Night Club in the Heart of the Byward market. A Little something for everyone!

Open for lunch and dinner 7 days a week Pub.101 boasts a great menu full of amazing daily specials including 2 wing nights.

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Web 2.0 Lab

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Wednesday 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Nov 14 (20071114)
at Pub 101

Event Brief Description: In this session Darcy Whyte will show us how to set up Apache, MySQL and PHP on a Windows PC so they can switch back and forth between Microsoft IIS and Apache PHP Web programming. This will enable them to use their Windows PC to learn about modern Web 2.0 Programming in a LAMP like environment and still be able to use their Windows PC to do ASP and other Microsoft Web programming. This session is suitable for those who have Windows computers and wish to learn PHP and MySQL programming on their Windows PC or seasoned PHP programmers that wish to use Windows.

Event Description: Web 2.0 Lab is run by Darcy Whyte and meets regularly to share ideas about the technical side of Web development.

Event Interests: Technology, Mentoring, Business, Cocktail Party, Talk, No Cover, Live

Pub 101: 101 York Street, Ottawa, Canada, 613-789-3515

Brief Description of Venue: A 3 Level Pub/Sports Bar/Night Club in the Heart of the Byward market. A Little something for everyone!

Open for lunch and dinner 7 days a week Pub.101 boasts a great menu full of amazing daily specials including 2 wing nights.

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SQL Injection

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Here is a cartoon for all you database programmers.

For your information, SQL injection is a way that people can break your Web site by filling in forms and querystrings and such with database commands instead of real data. Because the contents of these forms are merged with database commands, it is a vulnerability for Web database systems.

SQL Injection

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SNTTT — TravelPod Redesign / Social Network Theory

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

SNTTT — TravelPod Redesign / Social Network Theory
Wednesday 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm, Oct 24 (20071024)
at Pub 101

Event Description: TravelPod Usability Review with Luc levesque (General Manager / Founder, TravelPod.com): Participate in an open exercise in design and usability by giving your feedback on TravelPod’s new yet-to-be-launched homepage design. Try their Traveler IQ Challenge on Facebook http://apps.facebook.com/travelpod-challenge/

Presenter #2: Mr. Sanjay Belkhode — Abstract: In our very first session, Sanjay presented Part 1 of the Basics of Social Networking Theory. Since then, many attendees have indicated their desire to see this presentation again. This will be mostly the same presentation as before with perhaps a few changes/additions. You’ll learn more about the different types of social networks and how they relate to real life.

*SNTTT (Social Network Theory Think Tank) — Format: 10m social, 10m talk, Questions and discussion. This regular activity is hosted by Darcy Whyte (Darcy@Siteware.com) of JumpSocial. Contact Darcy Whyte for details about future session locations and times. Ideas and feedback are welcome! Please RSVP to Darcy@Siteware.com if you do not indicate in JumpSocial that you are attending. Also feel free to add Darcy@Siteware.com as a jumpsocial contact. It’s in the 2nd floor of the pub.

Event Interests: No Cover, Talk, Seminar, Cocktail Party, Business, Marketing, Planning, VC and Angel, Mentoring, Technology

Pub 101: 101 York Street, Ottawa, Canada, 613-789-3515

Brief Description of Venue: A 3 Level Pub/Sports Bar/Night Club in the Heart of the Byward market. A Little something for everyone!

Open for lunch and dinner 7 days a week Pub.101 boasts a great menu full of amazing daily specials including 2 wing nights.

Posted in Social Networking, Think Tank, Social Software, Technology | No Comments »

Wisdom

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Here’s a really cool article on the how content can be filtered. The author likens machine learning to evolution.

http://karmatics.com/docs/evolution-and-wisdom-of-crowds.html

It’s worth a peak.

Posted in Think Tank, Social Software, Mathematics, Technology | No Comments »

PHP vs. Ruby

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

I just came across this article because it was SlashDotted recently.

I’ts an article by Derek Sivers on his experience with Ruby. He is involved with www.CDBaby.com.

Here is the article.

Here is some of the text:

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
Saturday September 22, 2007 5:49PM

SUMMARY: I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn�??t meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom.

INTRO / BACKGROUND:

Back in January 2005, I announced on the O�??Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PHP code in my existing CD Baby (cdbaby.com) website, and rewrite the entire thing in Rails, from scratch.

I hired one of the best Rails programmers in the world (Jeremy Kemper aka bitsweat), and we set off on this huge task with intensity. The first few months showed good progress, and Jeremy could not have been more amazing, twisting the deep inner guts of Rails to make it do things it was never intended to do.

But at every step, it seemed our needs clashed with Rails�?? preferences. (Like trying to turn a train into a boat. It�??s do-able with a lot of glue. But it�??s damn hard. And certainly makes you ask why you�??re really doing this.)

Two years (!) later, after various setbacks, we were less than halfway done.* (To be fair to Jeremy�??s mad skillz: many setbacks were because of tech emergencies that pulled our attention to other internal projects that were not the rewrite itself.) The entire music distribution world had changed, and we were still working on the same goddamn rewrite. I said fuckit, and we abandoned the Rails rewrite. Jeremy took a job with 37 Signals, and that was that.

I didn�??t abandon the rewrite IDEA, though. I just asked myself one important question:

�??Is there anything Rails can do, that PHP CAN�??T do?�?�

The answer is no.

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