I mentioned in the announcement of batucada, that we are dropping Drupal for the next phase of development on the Drumbeat website project. We’ve decided to build Batucada with the Python web framework django. There are a bunch of reasons why I think django is a good choice, but the primary one is that people [...]
Category Archives: Open Web
Batucada – Marching towards Drumbeat.org 1.0
July 2, 2010 – 7:34 am
I’m excited to announce a new phase of development for the Drumbeat website project. We are about to begin development on a new project, code named batucada, that will eventually power drumbeat.org. With batucada, the future of drumbeat.org will be more social and will have the open web at its core.
To understand how we got [...]
Joining Mozilla
May 2, 2010 – 11:35 pm
I’m very happy to announce that I’ve taken a position as a Senior Web Developer for the Mozilla Foundation. I’m sure I’ll be getting into all sorts of things, but job number one is going to be helping out with the Drumbeat community. If you’ve never heard of it, Mozilla Drumbeat is a launch-pad and [...]
#OpenWebTO: Discovery Edition
April 8, 2010 – 12:22 am
The second #OpenWebTO meetup is happening on Tuesday, April 20th at 7pm. We’re at the Centre for Social Innovation again but this time on the 1st floor.
For this meetup, James Walker (walkah) is going to be presenting WebFinger / The Hammer Stack. This will be a fairly in-depth look at the various pieces that make [...]
Community and Platform Building
March 16, 2010 – 12:29 am
In June 2009, I started working for FreshBooks – an online billing service based here in Toronto. My official job title is Team Lead, API & Integrations, but in FreshBooks tradition I’ll probably come up with something more clever sounding eventually. When I started, I was mostly doing bug fixes and enhancements to the API, [...]