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What new apps were used most at SXSW 2013, and why?
Lanyrd will be at SXSW again this year, and we’ve continued to refine our unofficial schedule guide and session planner for SXSW Interactive. Here’s our site for this year:
[... 367 words]How many women are raped each year at tech conferences?
The geek feminism wiki maintains a comprehensive list of incidents at tech conferences: Timeline of incidents
[... 33 words]Are there specific elements of SXSW that make it a successful conference?
SXSW is a great event because of the people who go. There is no other technical/creative conference I can think of which attracts talented, interesting people at the same scale (20,000+ attendees).
[... 140 words]Which web/software development conferences a student should attend and why?
Offer to volunteer at conferences. If accepted, you’ll get in for free and you’ll get to meet loads of people (including spending time with the speakers)—in exchange for a full days work manning desks, finding speakers in time for their talks, giving people directions and generally helping organise and clean things up.
[... 104 words]What is the best 30-minute sitcom ever?
I’m shocked it hasn’t been mentioned already, but seriously: where’s the love for Father Ted?
[... 49 words]What are Startup Friendly Event Venues in Berlin?
We have a list of conference event venues in Berlin here (it’s a semi-unreleased feature, so I’d love to get your feedback on if it helps solve your problem): Venues in Berlin | Lanyrd
[... 108 words]Where do I find out about interesting upcoming events in London?
I’m a big fan of Ian Visits: London Events Listings Guide for finding out about some of the more obscure events going on. Ian is an excellent curator with impecable taste in cultural events, and frequently lists guest lectures, guided walks, tours and other events that you may not hear about anywhere else.
[... 120 words]Is Lanyrd any good?
For some verticals, we’re excellent: we have by far the most comprehensive listing of tech/programming/startup-related conferences anywhere online, curated by our growing community of event enthusiasts. If you’re interested in events in those niches it’s absolutely worth signing up, trying out our recommendations and subscribing to our email updates.
[... 180 words]What data structures are used to implement the DOM tree?
You may enjoy this post from Hixie back in 2002 which illustrates how different browsers deal with incorrectly nested HTML. IE6 used to create a tree that wasn’t actually a tree! http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=103791...
[... 49 words]Which restaurants in London serve orange or lemon sorbet served in a hollowed out orange or lemon?
Thanks to Twitter I’m informed that Ciao Bella on Lamb’s Conduit Street has the lemon version.
[... 58 words]What concert would you wish to go back in time to witness?
Queen Live at Wembley Stadium in 1986
[... 33 words]What would be the best design conference to attend in 2013?
That’s a pretty tricky question to answer... there are a lot of excellent UX conferences around (we’re listing 69 upcoming UX events on Lanyrd at the moment, and more get added frequently). A few things you should consider:
[... 198 words]What are the most commonly used or most interesting open-source packages and software?
I’d say the open source browser engines, Gecko (Firefox) and WebKit (Safari, Chrome, iOS, Android) are probably some of the most important and widely used pieces of open source code these days.
[... 51 words]Is there any way to visually quantify, or show your total github activity (public or private) across all projects?
The new GitHub public profile pages do a pretty great job of this:
[... 49 words]What do convention goers want most from an convention location?
I’m sure this varies wildly for different people, so I’ll give you my personal opinions here:
[... 214 words]Does the Quora iOS app allow one to give “Thanks?”
I’d really like to be able to do this—could there be room for it in the little cog menu, next to “promote”?
[... 40 words]Does it still make sense to become a Java developer, or should I migrate to PHP or .NET?
It sounds like you need to expand your horizons a little further. The best programmers I know these days aren’t working solely in Java, PHP or .NET—they may use one those languages, but they’ll also be getting stuck in to dynamic languages such as Python, Ruby, JavaScript or Scala.
[... 222 words]What is the best city to host a convention in US and why?
I can’t say I’ve tried every city, but my personal favourite US city to attend a conference in is Portland, OR. Amazing food, great public transport (the tram service is free within the city center, which includes the convention center) and plenty of interesting things to do and see outside of the conference.
[... 84 words]What are some hidden gem restaurants in London for trying food from different countries, aside from the plenty of Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Italian restaurants?
I’ll throw in a few of my favourites...
[... 123 words]Can you advice me some newsletters where I can signup to receive on my email news about web/programming/startups conferences, talks, contests, events, classes?
Our site Lanyrd.com can help with this. You can sign in with Twitter or LinkedIn to see event recommendations based on who you are connected with. Then you can improve those recommendations by tracking topics in geographical areas (e.g. every Social Media event in the USA, or every Mobile event in San Francisco). If you give us your email address we’ll send you an automated weekly email letting you know about newly announced conferences or events that we think you’ll find interesting.
[... 112 words]What are good ideas and examples for event gamification?
Straight up points and badges style gamification seems a little contrived to me, but there’s definitely a lot to be said for activities that encourage delegates to meet new people.
[... 279 words]How do I learn Python fast?
Learn how to use the Python interactive prompt and start solving problems with it. The official Python tutorial is an excellent place to start: http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/
[... 38 words]What are the top tech conferences for social, mobile and location based marketing?
Our service, Lanyrd, is a crowdsourced directory of conferences with very strong listings in those categories. Try the following pages:
[... 152 words]Where can I find a calendar of tech events and conferences all over the world?
We have a comprehensive, crowdsourced calendar of conferences and professional events on our service, Lanyrd.
[... 203 words]What are some productive things to do for 15 minutes a day?
Learn a foreign language—using DuoLingo on the iPhone, or with podcasts such as Coffee Break Spanish.
[... 36 words]What should one bring on a trip to London?
Bring an unlocked smartphone (Google Maps is essential, it has excellent public transport directions—don’t trust Apple Maps). You can get a pay-as-you-go SIM when you arrive, provided your phone is unlocked (check that you will be able to put a UK SIM in it).
[... 179 words]What was the Registration Fee for QCon NY 2012?
Registration opens in February—they haven’t announced ticket prices yet. You could always email them and ask.
[... 33 words]Are there any sites like CodeAcademy for other fields, i.e. who specialize in math, languages, finance, etc. (no “generalists” like Khan)?
For language learning my wife has been having a really good time with Duolingo—she uses the iPhone app but they have a web version as well. It’s also free—I think their business model revolves around getting students to crowdsource translations as part of their learning exercises.
[... 130 words]What are good and easy practices for frequent web deployments?
At Lanyrd we use a combination of Fabric to drive our deploy scripts, git to get the code on to the servers, puppet for configuration management and Jenkins to run continuous integration tests and provide a “deploy the site” button.
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