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What are some good social media events that will take place in 2011 in Middle East and North Africa region?
User StartupDigestME on Lanyrd follows entrepreneurship events in the region which may also cover social media topics: http://lanyrd.com/people/startup...
[... 45 words]When was the 2011 Blog World Expo?
The dates haven’t been announced yet—they’ll be on http://www.blogworldexpo.com/ when they are, and there’s a mailing list you can sign up for.
[... 84 words]What do people think of Tim Ferriss?
I didn’t make it to the end of the 4-Hour Work Week because I was uncomfortable with the morality of it (the Tae Kwon Do stuff, for example). If everyone behaved like that, society wouldn’t function.
[... 75 words]What are the dates of MacWorld in January 2011?
http://www.macworldexpo.com/ says Jan 26th-29th 2011.
What are the best blogs about NoSQL?
myNoSQL is excellent: http://nosql.mypopescu.com/
[... 18 words]Why isn’t the schema and data migration tool South included in Django by default?
Because shipping things as part of Django means they can’t have separate releases, which means you only get a new released version every 6-12 months. South is improving far faster than that.
[... 113 words]What are the JSON security concerns in web development?
Be very careful when implementing JSON-P for authenticated actions—evil third party sites could assemble URLs to your user’s private data and steal it. This attack has worked against Gmail in the past.
[... 203 words]What are the pros and cons of switching from MySQL to one of the NoSQL databases?
Pro: If your own benchmarks tell you you need to switch to a specific NoSQL solution, you’ll know exactly what the pro is.
[... 227 words]What are the best things to do, see, or eat in Marrakech?
Stay in a Riad. We stayed in Riad Laârouss and absolutely loved it—the best place we stayed in Morocco or Egypt (and we were travelling in North Africa for three months). Peaceful, friendly and with a plunge pool for cooling off. http://www.booking.com/hotel/ma/...
[... 143 words]How can I determine which web server a particular website is using (Apache, IIS, Nginx, etc)?
If you’re on Linux or OS X, use curl with the -I option (to make a HEAD request and see the HTTP headers):
[... 63 words]How do you find out about events in Birmingham, UK?
We have a page of events in Birmingham on Lanryd: http://lanyrd.com/places/birming...
[... 54 words]Could browsers be made to scroll down (e.g. by 67%) if you add #67% to a URL?
I’d say no.
[... 89 words]What are the strangest and weirdest conferences/expos in the world?
I was amazed to find out that “Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right”, the “First Annual Catholic Conference on Geocentrism” was NOT a joke conference. http://lanyrd.com/2010/galileo/
[... 77 words]Are there any summer conferences in the Bay Area for web development (or any other technology/Internet related topics)?
Have a browse through the list here: http://lanyrd.com/places/califor...—or filter by web development only: http://lanyrd.com/topics/web-dev...
[... 131 words]How can you provide wireless internet at a tech conference without being overloaded?
PyCon has a very solid track record with WiFi, and they have detailed write-ups describing their setup for every conference since 2007: http://www.tummy.com/Community/A...
[... 43 words]What interesting meetings will be held in March and/or April in Silicon Valley on topics relating to technology startups?
Try browsing through the list on http://lanyrd.com/places/califor...—or use our search feature.
[... 39 words]Is there any quantified proof that .NET or others Microsoft technologies are not good for web startups?
How can you “prove” such a thing? You can disprove the statement that “.NET is no good for web startups” by pointing to examples such as Stack Overflow.
[... 51 words]Did Apple always plan the (native) App Store, or was it released in response to developer demand?
Personally I’ve always assumed that native apps / the App Store was planned from the start, and the “build apps with HTML” thing Steve Jobs originally promoted was intended as a stop-gap measure (and also to mislead the competition). It’s hard for me to believe that a multi-billion dollar marketplace was accidentally created because developers demanded the ability to create native apps. Also, the quality of the APIs discovered by people who jail broke the iPhone suggests to me that a public API was planned from the start.
[... 111 words]Where can I find a calendar of upcoming tech events in the San Francisco / Bay area?
Take a look at http://lanyrd.com/places/san-fra...
[... 29 words]Where is a good list of social media events in the San Francisco Bay Area for 2011?
Take a look at http://lanyrd.com/places/san-fra...
[... 29 words]Why did Google Wave fail to get significant user adoption?
When Wave first launched, individual Waves didn’t have a URL. This made it impossible to link to them from outside of Wave—people were having to say “log in to Wave, then search for X”. If you can’t link to something on the internet, it may as well not exist.
[... 67 words]What are some other conferences that showcase cool ideas, like TED or the Renaissance Weekend?
http://www.poptech.org/ is quite TED-like—especially good for science topics.
What are the main things a non-technical co-founder of a tech company should focus on while the site is still being developed?
Building the right product.
[... 32 words]Is it a good idea to allocate URLs such as quora.com/username to users?
There’s an interesting discussion about this issue on this question: How do sites prevent vanity URLs from colliding with future features ?
[... 42 words]What are good games to get someone who likes Settlers of Catan?
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ is THE place to go for information on good board games. I’d suggest taking a look at Ticket to Ride.
What are some popular movies that are no longer plausible due to the ubiquity of cell phones & the internet?
“No Signal”
[... 36 words]What is the best license for a web framework (ex: Cake, Rails, Django): GPL, BSD, MIT, other? Why?
Not the GPL. The share-alike viral clause will prevent anyone from creating closed source proprietary projects on top of the framework.
[... 45 words]What are the best alternatives to JavaScript when writing web applications?
CoffeeScript is rather nice—it compiles to non-obfuscated JavaScript.
[... 27 words]JustinTV+> Fenerbahçe Antalyaspor Maçını Canlı izle
I believe they use a lot of Twisted Python
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