Hacks/Hackers MTL demo night

La version française suit

Let's welcome fall with another Hacks/Hackers MTL meetup. This time it will be a demo night. Good folks from the community will spend up to 10 minutes demonstrating a technique or tool that makes life easier.

Here's our lineup:

Using the Niveau 3 widget to create HTML popups in tablet apps: a case from La Presse+

• Cedric Sam, data journalist, La Presse

Using newsie-timeline (http://timeline.faridrener.com/) to tell a story over time

• Farid Rener, creator of newsie-timeline

How to scrape an encrypted PDF in three moderately difficult steps

• Roberto Rocha, The Gazette

A look at Overview, a document visualization and categorization tool

• Adam Hooper, co-creator of Overview

Using CSS sprites to make nicer buttons for your interactive

• Julia Wolfe, web designer

As always, beer and snacks will be provided, courtesy of The Gazette.