Montreal Tech Watch

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 [...]

The local chapter of OWASP, an international group dedicated to application security, invites anyone in Montreal interested in web application security to a presentation next thursday at 6:30pm. It’s going to be in Rom A-2330 at École des Technologies Supérieures, with David Mirza, founder of Subgraph, presenting their new open source product VEGA. VEGA was [...]

For those who are curious to see the hackers crowd, or have a first look of what’s a nerdcode hiphop / hackers show, come this Friday evening to Recon’s party at club Soda, 1225 bv st-Laurent, co-organized by CruizControl. It should be good fun, and it’s always interesting for a techie to meet hackers. More [...]

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If you are using wordpress, then head over next Saturday & Sunday to WordCampMontreal 2011. Of course, the event is also aimed at wordpress designers, wordpress developers, and generally speaking, to anyone who is blogging. As in previous years, the conference has 2 tracks, one for wordpress development, and another for bloggers. See the schedule [...]

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