It appears that Owen Byrne, one of the co-founders of Digg, will be speaking about his experiences with the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) in building one of the 'Nets biggest sites. The event is hosted by TravelPod and is happening next Thursday (Dec. 4th) at their offices. More info can be found here. [...]
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October 4, 2008
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Founders & Funders – Ottawa – Investment
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Local OttawaIt looks like Ottawa will be having a Founders & Funders event on Wednesday, October 29th! (6pm to 10pm), location TBD. I went to the Toronto event and found it very worthwhile. The idea is get a bunch of well qualified start-up founders together over dinner & cocktails with the Angel investment community to make [...]
September 26, 2008
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Fitzpatrick’s Hierarchy of Tech Needs
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessFor those of you not yet familiar with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, have a quick look. It’s an interesting theory in psychology. The gist of it is that we have different levels of needs and motivations, and that we typically only focus on satisfying those higher order needs once our basic needs are met. So, [...]
September 23, 2008
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Ottawa DemoCamp10
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Local OttawaSummer’s over and it’s the “entrepreneur’s New Year!” (September). DemoCamp’s are back in Ottawa with #10 being on Monday night (Sept. 29th), 7pm at the Velvet Room in the Market (62 York Street, upstairs). Here are the demos: Sixent – multi-profile social networking platform for sharing your life differently online FixIt Ottawa – upcoming local problem [...]
August 30, 2008
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Contract Work
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Local OttawaOver the next few months I’m going to be taking on some contract work. If you need some things built or designed, feel free to drop me a note. I’m particularly strong on the user interface design front, as well as application architecture and web development. Because you’d probably like to know, here’s a brief [...]
August 26, 2008
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Devshop is a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 50 Canada!
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessDevshop was recently notified that we’re in the running (top 100) for the Red Herring Top 50 Canada awards!
August 25, 2008
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Kicking the Top Bad Habits in Project Management
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Managing Software ProjectsI gave a talk to 30 local software developers last Wednesday, on the top risks in software projects and what to do about them. We recorded the event and the video can be found here.
August 21, 2008
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Speaking Engagement in Ottawa – Success!
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Managing Software ProjectsThe Bad Habits of Project Management event yesterday was a smashing success. Thank-you to everyone who was a part of it. Local community member An-Min Kuo has a summary and a Flickr stream of the event.
August 19, 2008
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Devshop in ITWorld Canada
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessITWorld Canada wrote a nice piece on Devshop’s approach to “accounting for human messiness” . It’s a good article, but for the record, I never said that people lie, cheat and are lazy .
August 18, 2008
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Speaking Engagement in Ottawa
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Local OttawaThis Wednesday, I’m giving a talk called, “Kicking the top bad habits of project management”. Over the years I’ve collected and distilled what I believe to be the top 5 factors that account for the lion’s share of software project woes… Most of them are applicable to projects other than software too, but my findings [...]
