Articles by Brydon

About Brydon

I work on 20Skaters, ThreeFortyNine, Ontario Startup Train and a few others. My vanity site is brydon.me.

Guelph Seven Open House

We’re teaming up with The Guelph Seven for some application building and an open house this Saturday Feb 26th. As I’m sure you’re well aware by now, The Guelph Seven will be living here with us starting March 5th for 7 days while they build 7 applications. This Saturday the team will be doing a […]

PHP Webinar

Some of us are planning on watching a PHP webinar this Thursday Feb 24 at noon. WEBINAR: New SPL Features for PHP 5.3 “The SPL, or Standard PHP Library, is an often overlooked extension in the PHP core. It first came on the scene in PHP 5 and a variety of iterators constituted the majority […]

Contracts and Falling in Love

Our membership details page, until just now, used to include the line “All membership packages are 6 month contracts, first and last month payable on signup”. Someone mentioned that they felt that meant they had to pay for 6 months in advance. That is not the case so it’s gone. While we would love 6 […]

TED(rejects)Waterloo Work Day

TEDxWaterloo is coming up on March 3rd and while we’re not the type of folks deemed worthy to actually attend in person, we do like the talks and we like watching them with like minded folks. Heck, we may even be able to carry a conversation about the issues raised. We’re working on finalizing the […]

Welcoming Microsoft as a Sponsor

I’m very excited to announce Microsoft Canada’s commitment to sponsor and participate in our coworking space. A special thanks to John Oxley for working with us to make this happen. Microsoft’s participation @ThreeFortyNine will involve events as well as having Guelph resident Ruth Morton working here when she can. Yes this means our people will […]

The Guelph Seven

We’re very excited to have the opportunity to sponsor The Guelph Seven here at ThreeFortyNine. In case you didn’t hear about it at the time, 7 Waterloo students built 7 apps in 7 days last November. Inspired by that ambitious/insane challenge, coming out of U of G are “7 Students building 7 Apps in 7 […]

We’re Alive…kind of

Guelph has a new coworking space to add to the list of exciting things transpiring to kick this year off. We’re excited to open our doors at 349 Woolwich to the community at large but we need some help spreading the word and signing up members. Currently Brainpark occupies almost half of the space. We […]

Why Coworking?

As this question has come up frequently as I’ve discussed what we’re up to here, I figured I’d take a shot at explaining what this whole coworking thing is. It’s easy to get lost thinking about this stuff and forget that most people haven’t heard of coworking, why would they have? I’ll include some helpful […]