Best of MontrealHackers.com, Part 2

By Julien Desrosiers Aug 2nd 2010 in Development

In the past two weeks I added a couple of new feeds in Montreal Hackers.

Hugo Frappier’s blog is one of them. In this post, he’s talking about the Rack::Rewrite middleware, and how to make some permanent redirections in your Ruby apps.

In another great post, Cedric Dugas is introducing us to the Google WebFont Loader. This technique uses the @font-face css rule to embed special fonts in HTML.

Stephane Caron covers the basics of delivering real-time information to your users using node.js.

There is also this nice discussion on the (recently added to MontrealHackers) Daniel Lemire’s blog (Not that Daniel Lemire… lol ;) : what are The five most important algorithms?

And James Golick introduced his new Ruby gem : Rollout. Check it out!

To see more awesome posts from Geeks in Montreal, visit MontrealHackers.com.

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