- January - 63 entries
- 2nd: What are some good examples of a first PHP app to build for someone who is learning?
- 2nd: How to get a Twitter user's join date?
- 2nd: Is there a framework that allows me to collect input from individual users, and then charge for the aggregate and analysis of that data?
- 3rd: Is there any reason for a new programmer to choose C# over VB.NET (or vice versa)?
- 3rd: Has anyone implemented a message queue with mysql and many workers?
- 3rd: What are the best tech community event sites in San Francisco?
- 3rd: Are there any performance drawbacks when rendering DOM views at runtime with JavaScript, rather than rendering server-sent HTML?
- 4th: Is Django on its way out?
- 4th: Which tech startups in London have been funded in 2011?
- 5th: What platform was YouTube using before they were acquired by Google?
- 5th: Is there an open-content alternative to Quora?
- 6th: Is there a method to programmatically clear browser cache in JavaScript?
- 6th: What kind of publicly available search software is able to be purchased or used freely as part of a website, and how good is it?
- 6th: What are the best SEO conferences around Cincinnati?
- 6th: Is it true that Ruby is more deployment friendly than Python?
- 8th: How does Linkedin use Node.js?
- 9th: Why is Google indexing & displaying www1 versions of my site and how might I stop this?
- 9th: Are there any good Django video tutorials?
- 10th: What server do I need to handle 1000+ users simultaneously while they can post messages, upload pictures, and other similar stuff on a website based on PHP and mySQL?
- 10th: Is it common for founding engineers at startups to buy software and memory out-of-pocket?
- 10th: Companies like Wipro (Indian company), Infosys (company), Capgemini uses Java, .Net for developing web and desktop application. But I haven't seen any consulting company of their size using Python. Is there any python consulting company of size 1000...
- 10th: Mobile World Congress: Is it worth going?
- 11th: Benchmarks for scalability in NoSQL systems?
- 11th: What are the pros and cons of using Drupal as a web application framework?
- 12th: How could Sherlock be improved?
- 12th: Where are the best places to go in London on a weekend for free?
- 13th: What is a Twitter alternative for internal teams?
- 13th: What are the best events search engines?
- 13th: Is it possible to block screenshot apps from working on your webapp/website?
- 13th: What is a good programming language to learn after bash scripting?
- 14th: Play Framework, Django or Rails? Which one do you recommend for Social Networking Web applications.
- 14th: Why doesn't Google Chrome use the Google Search Engine spellchecker?
- 14th: If you were to build homeaway or vrbo from scratch, which software would you use?
- 14th: What are optimal workflows for deploying one's web application?
- 14th: What is the difference between XHTML 1.0 strict and transitional?
- 15th: How can I download a web server's directory and all subdirectories with one command?
- 16th: What are some more glamourous careers a computer programmer can pivot into?
- 16th: Events (leisure): How do you find out about Conferences happening in various places in the world?
- 16th: What role will Social Media play in 2012 conferences? For example what platforms will attendees be using to communicate and network?
- 16th: Are there any disadvantages to using domain hacks for your product website?
- 17th: How is JSON different then a JavaScript (programming language) object?
- 18th: Which web frameworks should I focus on to make myself the most well rounded and to be able to solve the most problems as a web application developer/architect?
- 20th: As a first timer, what are the best tips while flying business class to get the most value?
- 20th: What are the pros and cons of open sourcing my website's code?
- 20th: Is there a simple way to create a form that asks people to upload a picture and an answer to a question, and then gives me access to that info?
- 20th: Web Performance: What is the best way to measure page load times on different locations of the world?
- 20th: What is the difference between a web server and a web framework?
- 20th: What are examples of consumer web products which had little or no initial traction, but which persisted in their direction and eventually found success?
- 22nd: What (web) development platform has a low learning curve in terms of development, deployment, scalability, performance, and portability?
- 22nd: What are good ways to design a web application? Do you, for example, begin with a wire-frame of the front-end and work your way back to the database schema? The reverse? Figure out both ends and work towards the center?
- 22nd: Where can I find great Java/Scala developers in London?
- 22nd: Do Python programmers have a tendency to write their own software instead of contributing? Why?
- 22nd: Does version 1 of a startup always take much longer than expected?
- 22nd: Does Facebook's iPhone app use a proprietary web rendering engine instead of UIWebView?
- 22nd: Do people still write and compile programs from the command line, instead of an IDE? Why or why not?
- 23rd: Is there a conference for food culture?
- 26th: What do you miss out on if not staying in the official hotel for PyCon (or other tech conferences)?
- 26th: Why is the Zen of Python obfuscated in the "this" module?
- 29th: Which angels or VCs like to invest in fitness companies?
- 29th: Do Twitter API limits rest at the top of the hour or is it floating?
- 30th: How do you find the new URL of a Tumblr that has moved?
- 31st: What conferences cover cloud computing and CAD?
- 31st: What are XML feed best practices?
- February - 58 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?
- March - 1 entry
- April - 2 entries
- May - 8 entries
- 8th: How to prepare for and what (gadgets) to take to Wikimania?
- 16th: Is there a site which aggregates CFPs (calls for papers/speakers) for tech conferences?
- 29th: How to maximize the conference experience as an attendee?
- 31st: When referring to our web site in publications (or Twitter or Facebook), when is it important to provide the full URL - http://www.mywebsite.com and when should you provide just the mywebsite.com?
- 31st: Which sites have the best URL design?
- 31st: How did art.sy get a ".sy" url?
- 31st: Is there an API that returns metadata for a given URL?
- 31st: What is the most efficient way to lookup an object (e.g. a user) by only a string?
- June - 12 entries
- 20th: Is there a single list of all tech conferences around the world?
- 20th: Is there a free/open-source software source code search engine?
- 23rd: For a first-time visitor but longtime Anglophile, what's essential to see and do in London?
- 23rd: How do you know the real size of a web page?
- 23rd: Is there such thing as a specific multi-site search?
- 24th: What should I do with a week in Brighton, UK?
- 24th: Where is the best place to go for dinner in Brighton?
- 26th: Are there any website thumbnail services that generate images in real-time?
- 26th: What is a more equal-opportunity way to distribute access to a free event that is expected to sell out quickly?
- 27th: Should I attend the Build 2012 conference?
- 27th: Ideas on how to secure good clients for web development? Or - How to turn my skills into decent pay?
- 28th: What are the coolest things to do in Dalston Junction (London, UK)?
- July - 11 entries
- 1st: Why is learning JavaScript better than just learning jQuery?
- 3rd: Is there a place or portal where I can search for hashtags which track possible upcoming events or topics?
- 4th: Do you prefer to attend events in the evening or in the morning?
- 4th: While raising money, what tool are you currently using to manage your relationship with investors?
- 4th: What are some good examples of travel startups that use crowdsourcing?
- 4th: Does Amazon have a API for websites to utilize order and delivery fulfillment?
- 5th: Y Combinator: Does YC accept applications from founders outside of states? How does it work?
- 7th: What is a good cat name that relates to JavaScript?
- 20th: Which is a better site to archive conferences- Conferize or Lanyrd?
- 23rd: What is Lanyrd all about?
- 31st: What's the best way to handle logins?
- August - 27 entries
- 1st: Why should I care about the Olympics?
- 1st: Is GitHub looking to be acquired?
- 2nd: Events (leisure): I want to find out if there are any Hildegard von Bingen recitations coming up in San Francisco. Which website should I go to?
- 3rd: What are some unique and creative gift ideas for a startup team of 20 (ages 25-35, 80% male, mostly developers, under $100)?
- 3rd: How can I install apache solr?
- 5th: Do country/city IP addresses always stay the same?
- 5th: What is the best way for a startup to attract talented back-end and front-end team members?
- 6th: How does Twitter select trending topics?
- 7th: Why do tech companies provide MacBooks for software development?
- 7th: I'm a young contract/indie iOS Dev being pitched full time positions, what should I watch out for?
- 7th: Which tools exist for learning about the people attending a particular meetup / conference, in advance?
- 8th: What are the best tech networking events / meetups / conferences in London?
- 8th: What are the few must-do things in London before one leaves this place for good?
- 9th: What is the Freedcamp business model?
- 9th: How can a web developer keep up with new technology?
- 13th: Why weren't the features of Sass originally built into CSS?
- 13th: Can you use dropbox to host a wordpress site?
- 16th: Is xkcd overrated?
- 17th: I was wondering if anyone can recommend any organizations/conferences or seminars that provide sessions on Writing for the Web?
- 18th: What is the technology stack behind Lanyrd?
- 19th: What are the biggest sites/web applications that are using the Node.js framework?
- 20th: Which digital events should I attend in the UK in 2012 and 2013?
- 24th: What are good ways to get meeting with VC's without introductions?
- 24th: How do I keep service providers and consultants out of my meetup or conference?
- 24th: How can you use SlideShare effectively to grow your professional reputation in a specific niche?
- 24th: Is it possible to embed Skype into a webpage to use as live chat support for free?
- 29th: What are good ways to make a conference for which people are willing to pay?
- September - 32 entries
- 3rd: Should I use Dropbox instead of Git for 2 coders? In terms of going really fast and working on things at the same time, I'm thinking it may be uber productive to use Dropbox for it's instant syncing instead of Git/Github. What are the pros/cons?
- 3rd: If I'm eating during an evening meeting (where a full food spread is available for 20 meeting attendees), how do I know how loud my chewing and crunching is? Am I disrupting the meeting?
- 3rd: Product Demonstrations: What's the best way to view/demo a website offline at an event?
- 4th: What's the best app to present animations and/or interactions for a UI/UX project?
- 4th: Does PowerPoint has a mode, where I can show slides on projector and see the slide notes on my laptop screen?
- 4th: I would like to setup a web-server which will be used solely by myself. What would be the safest way to do so in terms of confidentiality of the contents?
- 5th: How do you make an existing web application more mobile-friendly without rebuilding it?
- 5th: Are there any startups outside US which are/were part of incubators & seed programs like 500 Startups, Techstars, Y Combinator, AngelPad or similar?
- 6th: Which are the best video-teasers for conferences?
- 9th: SXSW Interactive or An Event Apart?
- 10th: What are some tips for giving a lightning talk at a conference?
- 10th: Events (leisure): How can I get into presentations, mixers and meetups without paying the entry fee?
- 10th: How does a new Website that depends on content from users start?
- 15th: Seattle, what is a great prize to give away at a conference?
- 15th: What happens at Amazon once I make an order?
- 17th: Scalability: What is the best way to store and serve hundreds of GB of images for a heavy traffic website?
- 18th: Did Mark Zuckerberg have any knowledge on building scalable social networks prior to starting work on Facebook?
- 18th: What does attending academic talks give you that you can't get out of skimming the latest articles in all of your field's journals?
- 19th: Which are the big Tech and Social Media events coming up from September onward (USA & Europe)?
- 20th: What is a development framework?
- 20th: Why doesn't the Django framework come with its own REST API out of the box?
- 20th: Why is everyone so obsessed with picking faults with Apple's new maps on the iPhone?
- 22nd: What are the top five items to pique interest in developers to join a startup?
- 22nd: What are the ways to Convert Dynamic JSP pages to a Static HTML to Appear in Google search results?
- 23rd: What are some creative programs to use for presentations?
- 25th: What are some fun things to do in Camden Town, London?
- 25th: Are there any good examples of 'large amounts of information being displayed simply and intuitively?'
- 26th: How do you organize the code in your Django project?
- 27th: Public Speaking: Where can I find someone to represent me as a speaker?
- 28th: How difficult is to to learn a language framework, like node.js?
- 28th: How do you convince your employer to pay your way to a conference and justify the cost without being able to show something tangible in return?
- 28th: Is it bad practice to have a variable that has the same name as a function?
- October - 16 entries
- 1st: What are the differences between node.js and websockets?
- 3rd: What is the scope, as a career, for a Python developer?
- 4th: What are some fun, interesting things to do or see in the Islington area?
- 4th: NoSQL: Whats the simplest on disk key-value storage?
- 5th: What recommendations are there for conference venues in London for between 50-100 people?
- 8th: Is it even possible to think of a new idea? Anything that I think of has either been done, or someone is doing it. How do you keep yourself motivated enough to pursue it?
- 13th: Why are web applications more popular than desktop applications with investors?
- 14th: What are some major tech conferences that offer student fellowships/discounts?
- 14th: How can I learn more about server-side technologies?
- 15th: Any source available to download sample data (in 10+ GB) for testing?
- 15th: How do I get out of being on panel at SXSW?
- 16th: How can I keep my website content exclusive?
- 20th: How should one go about designing a simple web based collaborative text editor?
- 20th: Can you mark items on a website as 'unread' without cookies?
- 20th: How does a front end developer avoid getting blamed?
- 26th: Django (web framework): What is the recommended way to cache objects that are very large (>1.5MB)?
- November - 28 entries
- 1st: What communities and interest groups in London should software developers get involved in?
- 2nd: What conferences has Mark Zuckerberg attended in the past?
- 2nd: What should everyone know about Oxford?
- 2nd: Are there any live event ticketing options that are using the Kickstarter model?
- 6th: Events (leisure): What would you think of a conference that had longer hours?
- 6th: How do media outlets get the presidential election results that they report?
- 6th: What are the top Apps/Mobile conferences & events for 2013?
- 6th: Is there a way to uniquely identify the device of the user that are connecting to a web app or a website?
- 7th: What are some apps, problems you would suggest to solve a new python developer?
- 8th: How do I learn how to write a javascript framework?
- 14th: What are the ways to get your links expand in Twitter inline?
- 14th: To become a better developer ? To read more OR to create/contribute to open source projects?
- 14th: How can I practice giving presentations / public speaking?
- 14th: What are the best practices for onboarding new software engineers?
- 15th: Who is the author of the Apache Solr project?
- 16th: How do you get started with an entrepreneurial idea?
- 16th: Why doesn't Wikipedia try something other than donations to make money?
- 20th: How did Simon Willison learn programming?
- 23rd: Where can I find videos of talks from big tech/science/startup conventions?
- 25th: Can you recommend a few video lectures on web application design with Redis?
- 26th: What are the major plot holes in Skyfall?
- 26th: If I have not seen the recent James Bond movies Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace with Daniel Craig, should I see the upcoming SkyFall, or wait to view them in order?
- 26th: Is it worth accepting an investment from YCombinator if you have an established network in the valley?
- 27th: What's the best free online newspaper in the U.K?
- 29th: What are some great things happening in London in January 2013?
- 29th: What's the real reason for the drop in cash that Y Combinator now gives companies? What really precipitated this change? Were they not seeing the value for their money and wanted out?
- 29th: Why do developers so dislike "ideas people"?
- 29th: What are some good ways to insult an Information Architect?
- December - 36 entries
- 1st: Django (web framework): What are the Best Practice For Displaying another Website from yours?
- 1st: How do I really learn coding?
- 3rd: What are some programming conferences and events being held near Detroit, MI?
- 3rd: What makes an awesome hackathon? I want to host one at the LAUNCH Festival and I have never run one.
- 4th: How are websites hacked to have their content defaced? How can I prevent such attacks on my website?
- 4th: What is the easiest server-side platform for Android Java developers to learn?
- 4th: Which web startup conferences are there nowadays?
- 5th: What programming language is primarily used in the making of big budget console games?
- 5th: Which social news websites for Python are out there?
- 5th: What are your thoughts on desperate housewives' final ending?
- 6th: What are the ways to show enthusiasm about programming?
- 9th: When traveling, what methods do you use to find unique, uncommon local experiences like art, music, events & shopping?
- 9th: How can some really large services (like Dropbox) afford to use Python as a primary language, if it's one to two orders of magnitude slower than other, compiled languages?
- 10th: Is there a online service which provides details of all the events happening in a city?
- 11th: How does the president structure his day?
- 12th: Are there guides for playing Minecraft on Mac laptops?
- 15th: What is the average registration fee for attending an international conference?
- 17th: Is it possible to restore an older version of a Pages doc without using Pages?
- 19th: How much Django should one know before going in for an interview for a developer position?
- 19th: What are the best tech conferences & meetups to attend as an investor?
- 22nd: What are some good books on data/chart presentation?
- 22nd: What advice does Paul Graham commonly give Y Combinator startups?
- 22nd: Is Twitter using its public api for its own website?
- 24th: If I study HTML5, can I avoid having to learn javascript?
- 24th: What tools and techniques are used for relational database version control (structure and data)?
- 25th: What are good ways to develop software architectures using multiple languages?
- 25th: Is it viable to say to an investor that you will quit your job and work full-time on a startup, if you get the funding?
- 25th: Which language and framework would you use today?
- 26th: What will HTTP be superseded by?
- 26th: Planning on visiting Portland for new years. What should I do/see/experience?
- 26th: Which are the best front-end schools in London, UK?
- 26th: Where do I find a detailed financial report of Wikimedia Foundation on a business year, specially about outgoings?
- 27th: How great do you need to be in programming to be a technical (Co) founder?
- 27th: Why do so many newspapers have astrology columns?
- 28th: How can I detect manual record insert from mysql cansole into my code in django .?
- 31st: What are some useful techniques and tricks using list comprehension?