About Marc-Antoine Ross

I am a Web Developer / Senior Project Lead / Entrepreneur. I run this company: Piria.
I am in charge of the Web Operations, Product Management of our flagship product: Rombla (currently still in private alpha) as well as Project Management of a few Web Development activities with our business partners.

I share a passion of the Web interaction model and Usable Applications. I fell in love with Flex and its new realms of possibilities. Stay tuned to see what we've done with Rombla!

Zend Certified Engineer

Upcoming and past trips

2009

  • July 8th - July 10th - Los Angeles
  • May 22nd - May 29th - Cuba
  • May 2nd - May 9th - Honduras
  • March 14th - March 19th - Paris
  • March 7th - March 13th - Florida - PGA Village
  • February 12th - February 19th - Huatulco, Mexico

2008

  • December 10th - December 14th - Spain - Barcelona
  • November 13th - November 27th - Palo Alto / San Francisco - Adobe Max
  • October 6th - October 10th - Denver
  • July 8th - July 10th - Denver
  • June 2nd - June 8th - Paris
  • May 1st - May 5th - Denver
  • April 22nd - April 26th - San Francisco - Web 2.0 Expo
  • March 5th - March 10th - Calgary - Piria Workshop
  • March 2rd - March 5th - San Diego - Graphing Social Patterns
  • January 23rd - February 16th - Piriápolis, Uruguay
  • January 15th - January 20th - Paris

2007

  • September 25th - September 26th - Toronto - on AIR Bus Tour
  • September 18th - September 25th - Denver - effectiveUI Flex Training
  • May 30th - June 10th - Spain
  • May 9th - May 30th - France
  • April 21st - April 28th - Mexico - Riviera Maya
  • April 14th - April 18th - San Francisco - Web 2.0 Expo
  • March 4th - March 22nd - Denver
  • January 19th - January 24th - Las Vegas - Affiliate Summit
  • January 16th - January 19th - Denver
  • January 1st - January 8th - Panama

2006

  • November 6th - November 22th - Denver
  • October 24th - October 26th - Seattle
  • October 23rd - October 24th - Vancouver
  • October 11th - October 19th - Denver
  • September 12th - September 15th - Los Angeles - CTIA
  • September 7th - September 12th - Denver
  • August 14th - August 17th - San Francisco
  • August 8th - August 14th - Denver
  • June 21st - June 28th - Paris
  • June 10th - June 19th - Denver
  • April 08th - April 14th - Paris
  • March 15th - March 24th - Denver
  • March 10th - March 15th - San Francisco
  • January 25th - February 16th - Denver
  • January 16th - January 23rd - Cuba
  • December 28th - January 12th - Paris

2005

  • November 14th - December 2nd - Denver
  • October 8th - October 16th - Cuba
  • September 10th - September 18th - Paris
  • March 27th - April 2nd - Denver

I am in Montreal when current date is not in any range above.

If you want me to bring you something back from a trip, please use this post and leave a comment.

Automatically empty a search box on focus with jQuery

Marc-Antoine Ross April 23rd, 2009 Add comment

This simple Javascript snippet will bind the focus event to any element that has a “clearSearch” css class. On focus, the field is emptied if it is the default value. On blur, it will put back the default value if nothing was entered. Very simple and unobtrusive. You can use it on your registration forms as well!

TAXI.clearField = function() {
    $(’.clearSearch’).bind(’focus’, function(){
        if( this.value == this.defaultValue ) {
            this.value = ”";
        }
    });
    $(’.clearSearch’).bind(’blur’, function(){
        if( !this.value.length ) {
            this.value = this.defaultValue;
        }
    });
};

jQuery Cheat Sheet

Marc-Antoine Ross April 22nd, 2009 Add comment

Research on Agile Project Management Web Tools

Marc-Antoine Ross March 18th, 2009 3 comments

Piria is hiring an advanced OOP PHP5 developer in Montreal

Marc-Antoine Ross January 6th, 2009 Add comment

Country jQuery Autocomplete plugin

Marc-Antoine Ross December 21st, 2008 Add comment

Rombla: a visual website builder

Marc-Antoine Ross November 17th, 2008 Add comment

Apache Caching

Marc-Antoine Ross October 2nd, 2008 Add comment

A Bridge Between AIR and Java

Marc-Antoine Ross July 15th, 2008 Add comment

Now That’s Exciting

Marc-Antoine Ross April 24th, 2008 Add comment

Looking for Web 2.0 Logo Inspiration

Marc-Antoine Ross March 21st, 2008 Add comment

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