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Throne of JS 8 Mar 2012 | 07:00 pm
There has never been a more exciting time to be a web developer. A year ago, building your own client-side rich JavaScript application was exciting, but fraught with peril: Early pioneers who “roll th...
We Make Pickup Trucks 5 Mar 2012 | 07:00 pm
People sometimes ask me if Unspace Interactive is expensive. Well, our hourly rate is neither the lowest nor the highest. But our hourly rate says little about the cost of what we build for clients. ...
Ruby Job Fair 2012 18 Jan 2012 | 07:00 pm
Come to our Apocalyptic (in theme only, we’re terribly propitious) mixer for the Toronto Ruby community! If the Mayans were indeed correct and 2012 is the End Times™, then we reckon that makes Februa...
Duck Programming 8 Jan 2012 | 07:00 pm
Prior to joining Unspace Interactive, one of our developers worked on an “interesting” project, a project that taught him many lessons. One of those lessons was to beware of “duck programming.” Before...
What's on your dashboard? 6 Sep 2011 | 04:00 pm
By software consulting standards, Unspace Interactive is a small boutique. As a byproduct of our small size and close relationship with the startup community, more than half of the Request for Proposa...
Strong Opinions, Weakly Held 27 Jun 2011 | 04:00 pm
Paul Saffo is credited with inventing the mantra, “Strong opinions, weakly held.” In 2008, he wrote1: The point of forecasting is not to attempt illusory certainty, but to identify the full range of ...
RESPECtable Employment, rooftop RPN, and the return of Giles Bowkett. 28 Apr 2011 | 04:00 pm
Welcome to the old blog on Unspace’s swanky new website! We’ll be transferring over to a new rethink model next week, but rest assured that all archived article links will remain in tact. In the inte...
Open Data, Open City 22 Sep 2010 | 04:00 pm
I met with Jaclyn and Kim from the Martin Prosperity Institute (think Richard Florida) to discuss my vision for open data in government and in the world in general. I relayed several stories that hope...
Questionable validation 8 Sep 2010 | 04:00 pm
Lindsey Harper posted an interesting article about using Amazon Mechanical Turk to test her start-up hypothesis. Many of the comments were not in favour of the idea, because of the [perceived?] inher...
I'm not a spammer, I just need to blast these potential customers 5 Sep 2010 | 04:00 pm
One problem programmers and other geeks simply cannot code themselves out of is dealing with the beliefs and expectations of that most elusive demographic: everyone else. Right this moment, there is ...
