About Marc-Antoine Ross

I am a Web Developer / Senior Project Lead. I work here.

This is precise enough for now ;).

Zend Certified Engineer

Upcoming and past trips

2008

  • 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.

Pownce Invites Left

Marc-Antoine Ross July 30th, 2007 Add comment

I have a few pownce.com invites left for those interested. Just post a comment with your email and I’ll send one along.

The PHP5 Certificate

Marc-Antoine Ross July 27th, 2007 Add comment

I’ve been offline for a little while, I agree. I came back from one month of travel in France and Spain. That was just great, really. Now, I’m on a new project, new partner, new ideas, new budgets, new excitement. We will be focusing on Web 2.0, Voip and Mobile, isn’t that great? I’ll post more details in the coming weeks.

I thought posting the PHP5 Certificate for those who haven’t seen it yet. So far I know only 2 of my class who passed the certification, any others?

PHP5 Certificate

Montreal 2.0 San Francisco

Marc-Antoine Ross April 14th, 2007 Add comment

I’d give a 4/10 to Air Canada today. I was very pleased that the planed pushed back from the gate a few minutes earlier than supposed, which is unusual. We unfortunately went right back to the gate: the engine’s starter blew off. After 2 hours waiting in the plane, we finally pushed back and took off. The flight attendants were nice, but didn’t offer anything to accommodate us for those 2 hours of delay.

I arrived in San Francisco and everything went very well from there. Went to check-in my room at the W, worked a bit, went shopping and ended up in the lobby of the W to work/drink/eat.

Web 2.0 Expo

The Web 2.0 Expo is not even started and I’ve already met the folks at Netvibes: Franck, product manager, François, Developer and Tariq, CEO. I had a very interesting conversation with them. I didn’t even know Netvibes was a French company! They will be announcing Netvibes Universe on Monday. I haven’t been able to learn much about it, but it will apparently generate new revenues for the company, I’m expecting it will generate revenues for the users as well. I’ll follow-up on that after their press release. This would probably help Netvibes continue its growth, which seemed to have slowed down a bit in the last months, looking at their Alexa ranking.

Tomorrow is the workshops day. I didn’t decide which sessions I will attend yet. What do you think?

2 for 1 on PHP5 Zend Certification

Marc-Antoine Ross April 11th, 2007 Add comment

Both Rico and I successfully passed the PHP5 Certification exam last week. Congratulations Rico. Over 66% of the DevTaxi crew is now a PHP5 Zend Certified Engineer! Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait quite a bit for Mario to pass the exam, I know he is very very busy with his web startup: www.foetus.ca. Busy is good Mario!

XHTML: Open a link in a new window - V2

Marc-Antoine Ross February 3rd, 2007 Add comment

I used my friend Mario’s great post on how-to open a link in a new window to create a script that will open any external link in a new window without the need to add a CSS class to it. This is very useful when you want to change the behavior on a blog that already has a lot of posts. (more…)

Cool site: StumbleUpon

Marc-Antoine Ross November 1st, 2006 Add comment

A friend pointed out this site: StumbleUpon. I like it!

CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment

Marc-Antoine Ross August 31st, 2006 1 comment

I will be at the 2006 CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment show in Los Angeles. I am particularly interested by the Day 3 Keynote: Social Networking & the Mobile Community.

Make sure to give me a call or shoot me an email if you want to chat with me over there, I’ll make it fit in my schedule.

Any restaurant recommendations?

Create your Ajax Indicator

Marc-Antoine Ross June 3rd, 2006 1 comment

I was searching for a nice loading/processing indicator while adding a few Ajax improvements into the CMS I developed and found this: AjaxLoad, a site to generate indicators with your foreground and background colors. Let’s see if the developer will add new and original indicators!

Free Icon Sets

Marc-Antoine Ross May 29th, 2006 Add comment

Here is a list of cool and free icon sets.

Some Water Powder huh?

Marc-Antoine Ross May 11th, 2006 Add comment

www.water-powder.com… Do I really have to write more about it?

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