About Marc-Antoine Ross

I am a Web Developer / Project Lead / Entrepreneur / Investor. I founded this company: Proze Network, co-founded this company: Piria (sold), co-founded SoftCity and I am now COO & CTO of Forever Alive.

I share several passions: the web, usability and technology, to only name a few.

Upcoming and past trips

2011

• March 25th - March 27th - Paris
• March 5th - March 25th - Thailand

2010

• September 5th - September 20th - Italy - Rome, Tuscany, etc.
• June 24th - June 26th - New York
• June 16th - June 19th - Los Angeles
• March 5th - March 18th - Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
• January 19th - January 24th - Los Angeles

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.

Fix OS X Lion problem with Hosts file

Marc-Antoine Ross July 26th, 2011 Add comment

Over the week-end I upgraded my Macbook Pro to OS X Lion. Great. Although I’m still debating whether I’ll get used to the “natural scrolling”, which doesn’t feel natural to me at all, the upgrade went almost flawless. I had to update Virtual Box (I should have done this way before). I also had issues with my hosts file not working anymore. After a bit of searching, I found out that the order in which your hosts appear in the hosts file needs to be changed in Lion. It should now look like this:

See? The localhost stuff is now at the bottom.
By the way, I now use Gas Mask, a great free utility to switch between dev, staging and production settings.

Deploy Rails 3 app to staging and production

Marc-Antoine Ross May 21st, 2011 Add comment

Social Shopping will grow 10 to 25 times in the next 5 years

Marc-Antoine Ross October 22nd, 2010 Add comment

How to use HTML5 placeholder with RoR

Marc-Antoine Ross October 5th, 2010 Add comment

Product Idea: Download the Billboard automatically

Marc-Antoine Ross September 4th, 2009 1 comment

9 Product Management Quotes

Marc-Antoine Ross September 3rd, 2009 Add comment

Snow Leopard Window Dance with Exposé

Marc-Antoine Ross September 2nd, 2009 Add comment

eHow.com: How to not know how to categorize

Marc-Antoine Ross August 12th, 2009 Add comment

Automatically empty a search box on focus with jQuery

Marc-Antoine Ross April 23rd, 2009 Add comment

jQuery Cheat Sheet

Marc-Antoine Ross April 22nd, 2009 1 comment