Best of MontrealHackers.com, Part 1

By Julien Desrosiers Jul 19th 2010 in Design, Development

I’m excited today to introduce Julien Desrosiers (@jdesrosiers), from MontrealHackers. Julien will contribute to a bi-monthly feature, with the best posts from Montréal developers from the aggregator Montrealhackers.

The series are much more technical-oriented than usual posts on MTW, but this is a feature that MTW has been lacking. I’m looking to bridge the different communities and developers is on top of the list

During the last two weeks there was some pretty interesting posts on the Montreal hacker blogosphere. Here is my personal “best of”.

There was François Beausoleil who published Mongo Explorer, his Cocoa application to explore MongoDB databases.

Rob Britton talked about fractals and explained an example algorithm. Cool stuff!

Stephane Caron created a pretty, pretty 3D effect using jQuery and a little bit of (safari only) CSS3 properties.

Cedric Dugas described how you can hack the loading time of your Javascript with a couple of neat tools like LABjs, Minify and Dynatrace.

And the Montreal ruby peeps are looking forward to see Rumblers joining the upcoming Rails Rumble, which will be in October. Give them a shout if you’re planning to participate this year!

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