- January - 1 entry, 46 links, 6 quotes
- February - 1 entry, 65 links, 7 quotes
- March - 43 links, 7 quotes
- April - 2 entries, 28 links, 7 quotes
- May - 38 links, 8 quotes
- June - 1 entry, 18 links, 1 quote
- July - 19 links
- August - 12 entries, 22 links, 4 quotes
- 24th: What is the history of the Django web framework? Why has it been described as "developed in a newsroom"?
- 24th: What is the highest traffic website built on top of Django?
- 25th: What is the largest production deployment of CouchDB for online use?
- 25th: Which Solr app for Django is better: Haystack or django-solr-search (solango)?
- 25th: Which major companies are using Solr for search?
- 25th: Why do some people disable JavaScript in their browser?
- 25th: In what circumstances should one use "magic quotes" in PHP?
- 25th: What is the best way to learn about setting up server software for Python based web apps?
- 25th: Django (web framework): Why did theonion.com stop using Drupal?
- 26th: Does SQLAlchemy depend on MySQLdb?
- 26th: How do Solr, Lucene, Sphinx and Searchify compare?
- 27th: What is the largest production deployment of Server Side JavaScript?
- September - 7 entries, 12 links, 3 quotes
- 2nd: Who are major competitors to Solr?
- 8th: Why do so many Internet sites end with the letter 'r' (but not 'er')? Think about Tumblr, Dopplr, Migratr. What's behind this?
- 27th: Why are tech conferences so expensive to attend?
- 27th: Will Redis support per-database persistence configuration?
- 27th: What new tools and technologies you learnt recently are worth it?
- 27th: Why are XSS attacks spreading like fire these days?
- 27th: What is the best conference for Web Designers in Australia to Attend?
- October - 66 entries, 23 links, 5 quotes
- 2nd: Aside from Disrupt, what other tech conferences do you track?
- 2nd: What's the easiest way to take an existing Django view and make it "real time" via long polling?
- 2nd: Is the complexity of basic Python data structure operations documented?
- 3rd: What are some tips for a new Python developer coming from C++/Java?
- 3rd: How does Lanyrd compare to Plancast?
- 4th: Is it important for modern programmers to know how to use Unix? Why?
- 4th: What is a painless way for a non-Unix programmer to get started learning Unix or GNU/Linux?
- 4th: Is there a modern, tested, reliable, standalone onDomReady function that isn't part of a larger library?
- 6th: Nile Cruises: Does the "Oberoi Shehrayar" actually exist?
- 11th: Who are the best Python developers in Los Angeles?
- 11th: Are there any web design conferences in Southeast Asia?
- 11th: What are the best places to visit in Morocco?
- 11th: Does Quora have the same problem as Stack Overflow?
- 11th: What is the best way to list every key stored in memcached?
- 11th: Why is it hard to see who the poster of a question is on Quora?
- 11th: What company had the first API?
- 11th: Is the 90-9-1 rule of user participation a myth?
- 11th: What does the key word "yield" in Python do?
- 11th: Why do so few companies use the Dojo Toolkit?
- 12th: What are some peculiarities of American culture which are not easily understood by foreigners?
- 12th: Is it not time for Google to redesign its search page by removing the "search" & "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons since the buttons are now useless with the new "Instant" structure?
- 12th: What are the advantages of running Apache behind nginx as opposed to just Apache by itself?
- 12th: Where can I find a database of the cities in the United States, their populations, and square miles?
- 12th: Is the .ly domain unsafe? Why?
- 12th: When should one switch from MySQL to Oracle or PostgreSQL?
- 12th: Why don't more people use Google Web Toolkit for web development as opposed to scripting alternatives like JavaScript?
- 13th: How much does it cost to develop a website like Yelp or Groupon?
- 13th: How do sites prevent vanity URLs from colliding with future features ?
- 13th: What startups host 100% of their private code on GitHub?
- 13th: What are your best backpacking (world travel) tips?
- 13th: Is there a way to learn Ruby in one hour?
- 13th: Why don't more websites use alternative domains?
- 13th: What companies are using Node.js in production in Texas?
- 13th: What would the level of interest be in a "FailConf" where people shared their business and technology epic failures and lessons learned?
- 13th: What was programming use Myspace?
- 13th: Why doesn't Facebook use nicer URLs?
- 13th: To what extent is it still valid to assume that your web app users are stupid?
- 13th: Simon Willison: How do you configure the Apache server you describe in What are the advantages of running Apache behind nginx as opposed to just Apache by itself?
- 13th: Why is software effort estimation still based on thumb rules and gut feels? How come no one has come up with an accurate estimation model?
- 14th: Who is the most recognizable person in the world (real or fictional; alive or dead)?
- 14th: Twitter.com 2010 Redesign: What things don't people like about #newTwitter?
- 14th: What are the best websites for finding out about events in San Francisco in advance, i.e., before they take place?
- 15th: What are the main weaknesses of Ruby as a programming language?
- 15th: Is there any consensus yet on link rel=shorturl vs rev=canonical?
- 15th: What are the main weaknesses of Java as a programming language?
- 15th: Did you mean rel=shortlink vs. rel=shorturl?
- 16th: Why do some websites implement their logout link as a form post via JavaScript versus a plain old GET request?
- 16th: What is the best way to hire Solr developers?
- 17th: Is it possible to make API calls without cURL installed?
- 22nd: What does an ideal Django workflow setup look like?
- 25th: What is the best way to maintain a API wrapper class across multiple languages?
- 25th: What are the best APIs for creating location-based Wikipedia mashups?
- 25th: What is the best Mac OS X text editor for a web developer? And what makes it great?
- 26th: Is it a good idea for new start-up to outsource Software/App Development?
- 26th: What are some of your favorite complicated diagrams?
- 26th: What's a good book about basic usage techniques and patterns in Python? (a la Effective Java/C++)
- 26th: What is the story of Advogato?
- 27th: What is the best lightweight jQuery tooltip plugin? Why?
- 27th: Why does Python load imported modules separately for different files, unlike C or PHP? Isn't that inefficient in terms of memory usage?
- 27th: What are all the advantages of jQuery?
- 27th: What is the best way to integrate MongoDB with Django?
- 28th: Is there a blog that covers open source Python projects?
- 28th: What is the best JS library for automated cropping?
- 28th: Is there a good online calendar for upcoming technology conferences?
- 29th: What are people's experiences using Memcached?
- 29th: If I have data that loads using json / JavaScript will it get indexed by Google?
- November - 22 entries, 4 links
- 1st: How come Google Maps provides so many more local Wikipedia entries that GeoNames?
- 1st: Would you recommend using Google Go with web.go, or Node.js for a new web server project which will involve high IO?
- 7th: Egypt: What is the best restaurant for fish in Dahab?
- 7th: What would be the best plan to spend a 4-6 day trip to Egypt?
- 10th: Why would or wouldn't SXSWi be worth attending in 2011?
- 10th: What are some good book discovery and recommendation sites?
- 12th: Can we apply to Y Combinator on a visitors visa? Or is a work visa an absolute must?
- 12th: Is Django a good option for crowdsourcing site?
- 14th: Why is Java perceived as not cool for startups? We seem to be getting a lot of feedback lately that a startup should be using Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, etc., if they want to be agile and iterate quickly.
- 16th: Why does Java encourage over-engineering?
- 17th: How do you work with front-end developers?
- 20th: What are the differences between GDC and SXSW? Which one is better for a web entrepreneur?
- 20th: What is the best site for event information (Eventful, Happenr, Upcoming)?
- 20th: What UX/UI conferences in the SF Bay area are worth attending?
- 21st: Does Twitter use a 3rd party software for rate limiting their APIs? If yes, who's the 3rd party?
- 21st: Is it possible to link to a Twitter user's page with their user_id instead of their screen name?
- 23rd: Who are the top Python programmers on Twitter?
- 25th: How do you successfully outsource a web application project that is a copy of another website?
- 27th: Why is Diaspora built on Ruby on Rails instead of Node.js?
- 27th: What is the best software for conference participants?
- 27th: What are some things that most hackers used to do themselves but now use other people's software to do?
- 27th: What are the tradeoffs (e.g. development speed, performance, scalability) between using various php frameworks, ruby/rails, or python/django? Is there any reason to choose one overwhelmingly over another?
- December - 30 entries, 11 links, 3 quotes
- 1st: What are the advantages and disadvantages of using MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Cassandra vs Redis?
- 5th: What are the most recommended upcoming mobile tech conferences in North America?
- 5th: Are there any well-known websites that use Facebook connect or Twitter OAuth as the only sign-in solution without its own sign-in password?
- 5th: What are some ways I can get the word out about my startup/entrepreneur focused conference?
- 5th: How do you correctly send the oauth_verifier parameter using python-oauth2 and the Twitter API?
- 5th: What are some scalable OAuth and OpenID server implementations?
- 7th: Why do browsers allow cross-domain JavaScript to execute but not XMLHttpRequests?
- 7th: What are the underlying, unspoken values of TED?
- 11th: What are the best NoSQL databases for a web application?
- 13th: How should you set up a staging server?
- 13th: What are some tips for moderating a panel?
- 14th: What are some of the best quotations on programming/programming languages?
- 16th: How long would it take an average programmer to do a Ruby on Rails Reddit clone prototype?
- 16th: Simon Willison: Would you consider Django for a crowd 'funding; website?
- 16th: If I'm bootstrapping a company and expect to get funding within months, what structure of company do VC's look for? C Corp, S Corp, LLC?
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- 18th: What are the best alternatives to JavaScript when writing web applications?
- 18th: What is the best license for a web framework (ex: Cake, Rails, Django): GPL, BSD, MIT, other? Why?
- 19th: What are some popular movies that are no longer plausible due to the ubiquity of cell phones & the internet?
- 21st: What is the largest production deployment of Redis?
- 21st: What are good games to get someone who likes Settlers of Catan?
- 22nd: Is it a good idea to allocate URLs such as quora.com/username to users?
- 23rd: What are the main things a non-technical co-founder of a tech company should focus on while the site is still being developed?
- 27th: What are some other conferences that showcase cool ideas, like TED or the Renaissance Weekend?
- 28th: Why did Google Wave fail to get significant user adoption?
- 29th: Where is a good list of social media events in the San Francisco Bay Area for 2011?
- 29th: Where can I find a calendar of upcoming tech events in the San Francisco / Bay area?
- 31st: Did Apple always plan the (native) App Store, or was it released in response to developer demand?
- 31st: Is there any quantified proof that .NET or others Microsoft technologies are not good for web startups?
- 31st: What interesting meetings will be held in March and/or April in Silicon Valley on topics relating to technology startups?