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Upcoming: NodeMTL #6 Jan 24th, Notman House

After the nodejs/redis/mongodb hackathon, everyone’s invited to the NodeMTL meetup Jan 24th, 6.30pm at Notman House. There are 2 main presentations: Scaling Socket.IO apps with Redis by Jerome Paradis Rapid development workshop with RocketJS by Gabriel Lespérance We will also be doing a recap on the Node.js hackaton. All teams who’ve presented a web app at [...]

MontrealOuvert: Suite des travaux sur l’ouverture des données

Il y a cette semaine 2 événements qu’il faudra mettre sur l’agenda si vous êtes intéressé(e)s par l’ouverture publique des données. Demain soir, un atelier citoyen est organisé au café l’artère coop, 7000 avenue du Parc, avec 4 intervenants principaux: Karl Dubost (blogue), Diane Mercier, de la Ville de Montréal, Sébastien Pierre, un des 4 [...]

Moka is a python library that lets you chain functional constructs

Moka is a python library that lets you chain functional constructs

Dominic Savoie (@phzbox ), also known for the gosuway project,, has released the moka python library this weekend. The library is aimed at python developers who find themselves working with lists on several lines, or wishing of a way their code were more readable. Here’s a code simple on how you can chain 8 operations, [...]

MTLSec meetup Nov 16th

This is a bit of last-minute, and is targeted at a niche but active and growing community in Montreal, those who are working in computer security. MTLSec is organizing an informal get together at Vieux-Dublin this evening. You can talk about the latest hackfest in Quebec city which got the team Amish Security from ETS [...]