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May 6, 2020

Best Practices for Running Online Classes on Zoom

COVID-19 has affected everyone, particularly the Sport & Leisure industry. Sport clubs, camps, and all of Park & Rec are shut down. Duncan from Soccer World, Hamilton Ontario’s indoor sport facility, is not standing still though. He took this opportunity to try and offer online classes on Zoom. Soccer World…

Wellness

4 min read

Best Practices for Running Virtual Classes on Zoom
Best Practices for Running Virtual Classes on Zoom
Wellness

4 min read


Jul 3, 2019

Continuous Delivery

Last weekend I visited Upper Canada Village. Most remarkable were the mills still operational to this day. As it was 150 years ago, water powers the sawmill, wool mill and flour mill. Power is produced on a continuous basis to cut lumber, produce wool fabric, and grind wheat into flour…

DevOps

8 min read

Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery
DevOps

8 min read


Mar 2, 2019

Instilling Change in Development Teams

In this day and age of internet and computing, things move really fast. Innovation requires you to constantly reinvent yourself. Staying still will get your company killed. Change is the only constant. We’ve all heard variants of these cliches over and over. They do however hold the key to longevity…

Software Development

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Instilling Change in Development Teams
Instilling Change in Development Teams
Software Development

7 min read


Feb 16, 2019

Coding in the Metro

Like millions of workers across the world, I have an hour commute to get to work. Fortunately public transport in Montreal is very good. In fact the metro is extremely efficient. During rush hour a train passes every 3 minutes. Even better, I am able to have a seat 9…

Productivity

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Coding in the Metro
Coding in the Metro
Productivity

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Jan 29, 2019

Millions of Checkouts Up For Grabs

Its January and time to register my kids to winter sessions for their evening and weekend activities: piano, Scouts, judo and badminton. Most of these registrations are still paper-based requiring me to go in person, fill in a form and write a check. On a cold Monday evening, I had…

Ecommerce

10 min read

Millions of Checkouts Up For Grabs
Millions of Checkouts Up For Grabs
Ecommerce

10 min read


Jan 13, 2019

Cleaning and Transforming Excel Data in Your Browser With Data Janitor

Importing data from Excel is a very common workflow for many applications, especially during on-boarding. For example at Amilia an administrator can import existing clients into their CRM. We provide an Excel template facilitating this process. The tedious part is building this Excel file. Usually, the admin will have a…

Data Science

6 min read

Cleaning and Transforming Excel Data in Your Browser With Data Janitor
Cleaning and Transforming Excel Data in Your Browser With Data Janitor
Data Science

6 min read


Dec 12, 2018

Fast and Free RAD Using GitHub Pages

Rapid Application Development or RAD is a technique to develop and test applications very rapidly. In short, RAD is all about involving your customer as you develop the solution. They get to test as you build in order to adapt the solution iteratively. Construction is intertwined with user design. It…

JavaScript

8 min read

Fast and Free RAD Using GitHub Pages
Fast and Free RAD Using GitHub Pages
JavaScript

8 min read


Dec 1, 2018

Data Imports — Forget Upload, Use Copy and Paste

As a developer, whatever industry you’re in, you will work on data imports more than once in your career. It often goes something like this… Megan (project manager) We’ve got Joanna, new big and important customer with 5,000 records of existing data. We need to import them into our system. …

JavaScript

5 min read

Data Imports — Forget Upload, Use Copy and Paste
Data Imports — Forget Upload, Use Copy and Paste
JavaScript

5 min read


Nov 7, 2018

WordPress Gutenberg — Adapting Shortcodes to Work as Blocks

On November 19th, 2018 WordPress 5 is coming out. This major release completely changes the interface for writing pages and blog posts. The TinyMCE editor gets replaced by blocks — WordPress’ own page builder if you will. It is called the Gutenberg editor. Gutenberg will change a lot of things…

JavaScript

8 min read

WordPress Gutenberg — Adapting Shortcodes to Work as Blocks
WordPress Gutenberg — Adapting Shortcodes to Work as Blocks
JavaScript

8 min read


Oct 13, 2018

WordPress Won the Race

A couple weeks ago I was in Indianapolis at a conference. I met a developer working for a web agency and asked if they used WordPress. With disdain he quickly replied: WordPress is unpleasant to work with and came quickly become a mess and a nightmare to maintain. We avoid…

WordPress

3 min read

WordPress Won the Race
WordPress Won the Race
WordPress

3 min read

Martin Drapeau

Martin Drapeau

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Founder of Activity Messenger, email and SMS for Sport & Leisure. Former CTO of Amilia. https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-drapeau

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