January 2011
Jan. 25, 2011
Tip: Flickr standard photo response as slideshow. Neat trick—you can construct a URL to Flickr’s slideshow widget that includes the results of any API method, including the all-powerful flickr.photos.search. It’s a shame you can’t embed the resulting slideshow in an iframe.
Which web server suits Django best? Apache, Nginx or something else?
I’m still a big fan of a stripped down Apache+mod_wsgi running behind nginx.
[... 98 words]What are some of the wackiest panel discussion formats?
There’s a format called a fish bowl which is pretty fascinating:
[... 120 words]37signals Product Blog: We’ll be retiring our support of OpenID on May 1. The support costs far outweighed the benefits to customers, especially now that 37signals have their own single sign in mechanism that works across all of their products.
What are the best design conferences or meetups in Switzerland?
I haven’t been myself, but Lift has an excellent reputation:
[... 30 words]Jan. 26, 2011
What are the must visit web conferences in the UK for 2011?
We’ve pretty much hit critical mass in the UK web scene with Lanyrd now, so there are very few notable UK web conferences in 2011 that aren’t listed. Here are some useful starting points:
[... 112 words]Jan. 28, 2011
Google APIs & Developer Products. Presented as a sort-of-periodic table. There’s quite a bit of stuff on here I didn’t know about.
Get Lanyrd conference recommendations by email. This is the first time I’ve built a custom email subscription feature, and it’s been a very interesting ride. We’re trying to find the right balance between keeping people informed in a timely fashion with useful information while not overloading their inbox with too many messages. You can opt for daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly emails and we’ll try to ensure you only hear about events you haven’t seen before.
Who is attending Webstock 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand?
We have a list of 46 Twitter users who are attending Webstock 2011 here:
[... 44 words]How we made an API for BoingBoing in an evening. Fluidinfo really is a fascinating piece of software. The team loaded in 11 years of BoingBoing content, allowing you to run structured queries against the data using their standard API, but also allowing users to attach their own information to the same corpus using Fluidinfo tags. Writable APIs are much less common than read-only APIs—Fluidinfo instantly provides both.
Jan. 30, 2011
Is Node.js a strong platform to use to build a RESTful API platform?
Yes. It’s very, very good at speaking HTTP.
[... 27 words]How do you stay up to date with Open Source products and technologies?
Lots of blogs and RSS feeds—in particular, I subscribe to the feed of the authors of the software that I’m using, if I can find them.
[... 61 words]Jan. 31, 2011
What are the most recent Y Combinator startup companies as of 2011?
We (Lanyrd) are a YC startup! We’ve just announced our participation: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31...
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