Items in Jul, 2012
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What’s the best way to handle logins?
First, make sure you’re storing the password as a salted hash, using a deliberately slow hashing algorithm such as bcrypt, scrypt or PBKDF2—here are some recent articles to get you up to speed:
[... 176 words]What is Lanyrd all about?
Lanyrd aims to help people get more out of conferences and professional events—by finding the right events to attend, meeting the right people there and catching up on slides, notes and video afterwards.
[... 216 words]Which is a better site to archive conferences- Conferize or Lanyrd?
We’re very proud of our tools for archiving information from conferences—we support attaching slides, videos, audio clips and other links directly to pages about sessions for conferences. These are then aggregated for the entire conference and are also linked to from our profile pages for individual speakers. If the session has topics attached to it, we also show thumbnails of the coverage elsewhere on the site.
[... 464 words]What is a good cat name that relates to JavaScript?
I have two friends with cats that have names related to JavaScript. One is called “JavaScript” and the other is called “Widget”.
[... 38 words]Y Combinator: Does YC accept applications from founders outside of states? How does it work?
Yes they do. I’m a YC founder from the UK, and there were a number of other international founders in my batch (including from Spain, Switzerland and Norway, off the top of my head).
[... 131 words]Does Amazon have a API for websites to utilize order and delivery fulfillment?
The Amazon Fulfillment Web Service used to handle this http://aws.amazon.com/fws/—but their site now says "Effective June 2012, Amazon Services will no longer support Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (Amazon FWS). All functions and services currently supported by Amazon FWS are currently available through Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS)." So I guess you want the Amazon Marketplace Web Service: https://developer.amazonservices...
[... 82 words]What are some good examples of travel startups that use crowdsourcing?
Trip Advisor, Yelp, any of the big review sites.
[... 27 words]While raising money, what tool are you currently using to manage your relationship with investors?
When we raised our seed round we used Highrise from 37signals. It worked out VERY well for us, especially during Y Combinator demo day. I’ll describe how we used it there...
[... 289 words]Do you prefer to attend events in the evening or in the morning?
In the evening. I like to go to work in the morning!
[... 31 words]Is there a place or portal where I can search for hashtags which track possible upcoming events or topics?
Our site http://lanyrd.com/ includes hashtags for thousands of upcoming conferences and professional events.
[... 39 words]Why is learning JavaScript better than just learning jQuery?
jQuery is a JavaScript library. When you write code using jQuery you are programming in JavaScript. This line:
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