Best of MontrealHackers.com, Part 3

By Julien Desrosiers Aug 23rd 2010 in Design

The last 3 weeks were quite calm on MontrealHackers.com since most of the hackers (including me) took some time off during these weeks. Nevertheless, here is a few interesting posts that I enjoyed reading during that time:

Jonathan Palardy explains how to use Bundler in a non-Rails app.

Jérôme Gravel-Niquet, the creator of Ostrich, gives a very interesting technical overview of his app. That covers the front-end and also the back-end of Ostrich.

Cedric Dugas explains how to apply a binary search algorithm in Javascript. Can be useful for seaching data in large arrays.

Rob Britton wrote another geeky post about fractals algorithmic: Introducing the L-Systems.

Good reading! See you in two weeks!

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