This is a really insightful translation of the Uber Holden report to help ensure diversity in team's of any size.

Thanks! We're not disclosing the sum, but we are happy and so are our investors.

So at its peak right now, how many speakers are actively using lanyrd? Updating their profile, collaborating, etc?

Excellent. Congratulations :)

Thanks!

Thanks :) that was the idea; I wanted people to get an impression of how it actually felt to be there at the time.

This is our story compiled from tweets and photos over the period of a month, we launched Lanyrd after a week of development and it took off pretty fast. This storify tries to capture those moments.

... and that's why we don't use English as a programming language.

Yeah, good programming languages are a lot more like Latin than English. They have rigid grammatical structures and consistent vocabulary.

Thinking about "sanitizing" puts you in the wrong frame of mind in my opinion - you should be thinking about ESCAPING. If you're constructing SQL queries sensibly (using an ORM or a library that replaces placeholders rather than concatenating strings together yourself) you won't even have to think about that.

Also on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/2011/sxsw/scqxk/

On Lanyrd that session is http://lanyrd.com/2011/sxsw/scpxh/

It is indeed, also uses all sorts of other exciting back-end moving parts - take a look at our colophon for more details: http://lanyrd.com/colophon