February 2012
Blog entries
- 2nd: Where does one start in programming?
- 3rd: What conferences do business leaders attend to learn about digital strategy?
- 3rd: How important is my alma mater to Ycombinator?
- 3rd: Does YCombinator fund Start-ups interested in building electronic gadgets?
- 4th: Why does Google use "Allow" in robots.txt, when the standard seems to be "Disallow?"
- 4th: How can I install Django in a server without shell access?
- 4th: What are the best practices to avoid XSS and SQL Injections attacks (platform agnostic)?
- 4th: What are the best SXSW blogs?
- 4th: How long until Ruby developers are as cheap as PHP developers? is it already happening? should I still learn it or it only has a couple years left and I'm better off with SSJS?
- 4th: Was CoffeeScript invented to help Ruby programmers get over that dirty yucky feeling they get when working in JavaScript?
- 4th: How can I parse unquoted JSON with JavaScript?
- 4th: If python dictionaries are inherently orderless, why were they given the name if a real dictionary is sorted by letter?
- 4th: NoSQL: On a shared server, what are the alternatives to using SQL?
- 5th: What are some places that serve X-Y food in Z?
- 6th: How do I get inside Battersea Power Station?
- 7th: What are some good conference directories or calendars other than Lanyrd?
- 9th: How can I look up Django functions?
- 9th: What conferences held in the Southeastern US cater to those in dot-com and startup roles?
- 9th: What is the optimal description length in the Apple App Store?
- 10th: What tech and/or start up events are you attending at SXSW '12?
- 10th: How did slashes become the standard path separators for URLs?
- 11th: Which is the best open source tool to populate my database with test data for my load test?
- 11th: Tech Startups: What skills/technologies would the ideal technical co-founder possess?
- 11th: Should I take the time to learn programming, or take my idea and run with it?
- 11th: How do you change page content and URL without reloading the whole page?
- 11th: What is an intuitive explanation of Unicode and why a programmer needs to know it?
- 11th: What is the best NoSQL database to store unstructured data?
- 11th: If you missed out on joining to work at Google and Facebook, what should you do?
- 11th: Can Scala gain wider usage than Java any time soon?
- 11th: How can you build a search engine for a website built in PHP/MySQL?
- 12th: Python Django load MySQL database from csv files performance issue?
- 12th: How can I see what questions I am following on Quora?
- 12th: Wouldn't an ASCII cellular automaton in javascript be the simplest starting point to teach/learn programming?
- 13th: Which core programming principles apply to all languages?
- 13th: Why are front end developers so high in demand at startups if front end development is relatively easier than other fields of engineering?
- 14th: How can a new developer get involved in open-source projects?
- 15th: What are the best sites to find events by location?
- 15th: What are some good startup events/meetups in LA during February and March 2012?
- 15th: System Administration: What service/product do you recommend for central logging of events and errors from multiple servers? Why?
- 18th: What is the best way to allow users to add videos on a website ?
- 19th: Is it reasonably safe to visit Ethiopia and then to fly from Ethiopia back home via Cairo?
- 19th: Why did Twitter have so many problems if it is made with Ruby?
- 19th: What web programming framework best supports 'drag and drop' actions? Please give examples of sites and/or plug-ins that support the interaction.
- 19th: Why does Twitter use a hashbang instead of using the History API?
- 21st: What are the best resources for learning regular expressions?
- 22nd: Will I be able to make a decent eCommerce website just by learning coding from Codecademy?
- 22nd: Why does Facebook Comments Box only support two levels of hierarchy?
- 22nd: What activities, games or examples have you used to persuade developers that they are different from 'real' users?
- 23rd: Which sites do a good job of guiding first time users?
- 23rd: What is the best advice your father ever gave you?
- 23rd: What's the best way to learn how to scale web applications?
- 23rd: Is Microsoft's platform prohibitively expensive for large scale web deployment? Would licensing costs have killed Twitter/Facebook early?
- 25th: What are the ideal laser pointers for conference presentations?
- 25th: How can I sort a huge amount of numbers?
- 25th: Has JSON pretty much replaced XML for string processing for the web, or are there use cases where XML is still necessary?
- 28th: Who is the best conference panel moderator?
- 28th: What is the best travelling iPhone application for a 9 day trip through Europe?
- 29th: What separates a CIO, CTO, and VP of engineering?
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