Since its origins as a conference for php developers, ConFoo has evolved into Montréal’s biggest web conference for developers, if not Canada’s biggest tech conference. They’ve unveiled today an enormous lineup of speakers for the upcoming 2011 edition, with more than 100 speakers (currently 110), from Montréal and Canada of course, but also a solid [...]
Temphunt finds jobs for temps
Currently in beta version, TempHunt aims to create a marketplace of temporary jobs. Anyone can fill a profile with their skills and availability, and then companies can find them through TempHunt’s search engine. The experience is informal compared to other job boards. It’s a fresh approach in an industry where profiles are verified, long and [...]
The Bonery stores your servers’ configuration
The Bonery is an online key-value store, designed for sys-admins and developers so that they can have environment variables and server configuration data in the cloud, and not anymore on a single computer. At its core, it’s a key-value store, a thin HTTP wrapper around Redis, avalaible online with an API key. It bonery was [...]
Job Listing: Rails guy/girl @ FetLife
Company: FetLife Position: Rails guy/girl Responsibilites and Tasks: About FetLife In a very short time, FetLife has become the world’s most popular social network for kinky people. With over 540,000 members and over 150 million monthly pageviews, we’re only getting bigger, and fast. FetLife is run by a bunch of geeks who just want to [...]
Best of MontrealHackers.com, Part 3
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 [...]
