HealthConnection App for the Greater Vancouver Health Practitioners

The HealthConnection App

Are you a health practitioner in the greater Vancouver area? Until now the information about the available local programs and resources were delivered to you in PDF files and spreadsheets. These documents are very hard to search and update, but now you can simply download the HealthConnection iOS app from the Apple app store or visit HealthConnecBC.ca to obtain that information.

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My Green Space is Crowd Funding

My friends in LaunchAcademy are crowd funding their startup on Indiegogo. It is called My Green Space which is aiming to make it possible for us to grow food no matter where we are. They will be offering web and mobile apps to manage your own urban garden and the mobile app will notify you and keep you updated on how to take care of your greens. In fact their mission is to cover 100,000 acres of urban space one garden box at a time. Their goal is to raise $20,000 initial funds. So if you want to support an awesome Vancouver startup, here is a good one. You can also follow them on twitter @mygreenspacevan, Instagram @mygreenspacevan and their facebook page.

I travelled 8000 miles to attend Nooku Jam and loved it

Visiting #Leuven #Belgium

I’ve just arrived from Europe. Still recovering from the jet lag and buzzing from the Nooku Jam 2014 which was held in the city of Leuven. This city is about 20 minutes from Brussels if you take the train. I was told that Leuven is a university town and most of its residents are academics and students.

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Hackers rejoice for Vancouver DevFest

There is an awesome event coming to Vancouver where participants get down to hacking, developing, and experimenting with cutting edge technologies. DevFest Vancouver is a week-long workshop-series and hackathon for experienced developers. To be more precise, there will be 7 workshops and 1 hackathon. The focus will be on cloud computing, Android TV, wearables, 3D printing, Virtual Reality, and Arduino Platform.

  • Time: November 3rd to 9th
  • Location: #200 – 375 Water St, Vancouver
  • Price: $10 each of workshops or $95 for a package of all workshops and the hackathon.

For more information and to sign up go to DevFest.ca

Will I be there with our mobile app development team? Maybe! This sounds very interesting.

Anahita 4.0 Birth release is now available

JJBean on Main Vancouver

I am so thrilled to write this announcement from the JJBean on Main Street, Vancouver. Anahita 4.0 Birth release is finally ready. The new release comes with hashtags, mentions, improved search, and improved group actors. Also, we have taken out a lot more of the legacy Joomla code so Anahita is now a bit lighter and faster. You can read the announcement for yourself.

So what’s next?

The focus of Anahita 4.1 will be mobile web. We do a lot of mobile app development in our company and we use Anahita as the back-end for the knowledge apps. A lot of the improvements that we make will be available to you as a part of the default Anahita distribution.

  1. Upgrading the CSS framework to the latest release of Bootstrap
  2. Rebuilding all the UIs following a MobileFirst approach which means we will build the UIs starting with small screens and mobile devices and then accommodate larger screens if needed.
  3. Rewriting the Anahita Javascript library using JQuery and a more common Javascript framework. We still haven’t decided on that, but AngularJS seems like a possible candidate.
  4. Additional improvement to the RESTful APIs for developing mobile apps.
  5. Removing more legacy Joomla code.

Also here you can learn more about the Anahita 4.* vision page.