Tech Radar

Welcome to the Cybera Tech Radar, which offers technical notes and code scripts to aid and assist ICT professionals. Cybera staff and project members will regularly update the Blog with their discoveries and insights.

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Posted: Mon, 2012-04-30
by Barton Satchwill - Senior Developer

Last week, Edmonton was the site of Canada’s first ‘Analytics, Big Data and the Cloud’ conference, hosted by ABCtech, the University of Alberta School of Business, and Athabasca University. This was an international event, with delegates from the USA, India, Israel, and across Canada. Those who came were a mix of entrepreneurs wanting to find out what was behind the hype of big data, and researchers wanting to connect and collaborate.

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Posted: Wed, 2012-04-18
by Barton Satchwill - Senior Developer

Last week, we held the inaugural meet-up of the Canadian OpenStack Users Group at the University of Alberta. Cybera has been working with OpenStack for more than 18 months now, and have been wanting to share more of our knowledge with a larger audience, and to find out what others are doing with OpenStack or other cloud technologies. We wanted to start giving something back to the community.

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Posted: Fri, 2012-04-13
by Everett Toews - Senior Developer

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Posted: Mon, 2012-03-19
by Joe Topjian - Systems Administrator

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend PyCon - the annual conference for the Python programming language, held in Santa Clara, California.

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Posted: Wed, 2012-03-14
by Everett Toews - Senior Developer

I am pleased to announce that the Canadian OpenStack User Group is now ready to accept new users. Please join us!

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Posted: Tue, 2012-03-06
by Kylie Robertson - Communications Officer - Edmonton

Edmonton and Calgary are great cities for innovative and creative entrepreneurs, as guest blogger Lloyed Lobo pointed out in a recent Cybera post.

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Posted: Mon, 2012-02-13
by David Ackerman - Senior Developer

It probably took less than a minute for TED.com to win me over when I was first introduced to the site in the summer of 2007. The organization had started releasing its talks online the previous year under a Creative Commons license. I loved the concept of being able to sit down and watch a video for 20 minutes that would give me new insights, challenge my beliefs, get a glimpse of the bright future of a particular field, or on a really good day, have my mind completely blown (the number of high-quality presentations on this site still surprises me).

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Posted: Thu, 2012-02-02
by David Ackerman - Senior Developer

Apple's new textbook ad really makes me want to be in high school again.

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Posted: Mon, 2012-01-30
by Everett Toews - Senior Developer

Recently, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill was defeated in the US, I wrote about it here. The bill was deeply flawed and threatened freedom of speech online in the US. Since the American entertainment industry lobbyists have been (for the time being) stopped from going forward in the US, they've now turned their attention to Canada.

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Posted: Tue, 2012-01-03
by Everett Toews - Senior Developer

"The originally proposed bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who requests the court orders, the actions could include barring online advertising networks and payment facilitators such as PayPal from doing business with the allegedly infringing website, barring search engines from linking to such sites, and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites."

The above quote is from the Wikipedia page on the USA's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). On the off chance you haven't heard about SOPA, now is a good time to read a bit about it. Think about how, if passed, this bill could affect your activities on the Internet from a business and personal perspective.