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The hoarding is down at the once and future TD Canada Trust (2220 Bloor Street West), replacing a one story modernist (late 60’s or early 70’s?) bank building. (With Flickr Photos) Continue reading Runnymede and Bloor gets a facelift.
A Year with Ruby on Rails: Advantages, Drawbacks, and Lessons Learned – From the University of Waterloo, after year since switching development focus from PHP to Ruby on Rails. 10 Great New Ruby / Rails Screencasts from July 2007 – Continue reading Ruby on Rails link roundup
App Preformance;easier SQL; JavaScript number formatting/data and time; more AJAX samples; Prototype Continue reading Web Dev Links for week of July 27th
A couple of “Toronto Nerd Events” to report on…. Joey at Globle Nerdy informs us in a few weeks (on Tuesday August 7th) Facebook Developer Garage/Camp is happening at the MarS centre. The Facebook Platform Team will give an introduction Continue reading Facebook Developer Garage (Aug 7th) and DemoCamp 14 (Sept 17) in Toronto
T.O. shows its inner Baltimore in Hairspray – Many parts of Toronto where used, but in particular One of the show’s big musical numbers takes place at Mr. Pinky’s Hefty Hideaway, a.k.a. what is now the Starbucks at the corner Continue reading Around Toronto : Hairspray in Little Poland, Kensington Guerilla gardening, StartupWeekend in September
We woke up Tuesday morning to reports of lane-way arson a few blocks away (Windermere Ave & Ardagh St, at 3 in the morning, very near by ) : The first fire appears to have started near , where a Continue reading Too close too Home : Arson in the neigborhood