There is an international trend requesting access to open data. That is good. Open data helps organizations, companies and governments to create an environment of trust. There is a guide for open government data which is written by W3C.
To really promote open data, it is necessary to use the appropriate licence. Glen Newton looked at the licenses of different data sets published by canadian cities. The terms of the… …
CssVerificator is a Rails application which checks 5 CSS items for performances. This prototype has been created by Benoit Goyette.
Nicole Sullivan (@stubbornella) recently outlined the Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS. After a survey, Nicolle Sullivan found out that
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Le module que vous pouvez découvrir à cette adresse : http://fellinlove.rd.pheromone.ca est une visualisation de données Twitter résultante de la requête : I fell in love with.
Banal sur le principe, cet exercice trouve sa singularité si je vous avoue qu’il est pour moi une première en matière de développement Javascript.
Fort d’une bonne demie douzaine d’années d’expertise dans le développement flash et l’utilisation de l’ActionScript, me voilà parachuté dans l’univers prototypale du JavaScript. Univers occulté par la puissance… …
In the course of a week-long benchmark study of portals around the world we ran recently for one of our clients, I stumbled upon the home page for the Yahoo! portal in spain.
Notice anything unusual? What fascinates me is how the top third of the page mentioned locations in no less than three countries. How? Why?
Near the top-left of the page, I can see an icon depicting a Canadian flag, along with a link to… …
Hier, Pheromone a publié une annonce d’emploi pour le poste de directeur du développement. J’ai relancé l’annonce sur twitter :
You love the Web? & you want to take over my job. Be the Dev Director at @AgencePheromone http://bit.ly/dtl7Pd #job #montreal
Juste après Jonathan Bélisle a réagi en posant une bonne question que l’annonce ne donne pas.
What are the challenges / innovation opportunities ?
Clarification : Je ne… …
Some Design agencies are publishing a little summary of their activities during the last week. Among a few of them, there are Berg, Stamen (is trying). It is an interesting idea which requires a strong commitment and needs to be done quickly to not be a burden. The ideal way of doing it would be on Friday evenings. It might be difficult, Friday evenings are sometimes a run for closing some projects, or we might be tired with no… …
We often forget about the very basic steps for creating a project. There are no small achievements, each step in a process is rewarding by itself and help to build trust in what you are doing. I was reading again the section on Linked Data from Tim Berners-Lee‘s Design Issues.
Linked Data is part of the process of publishing data in a way that it will be useful for anyone else. It is all about creating