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Let’s Get Technical!

Justin Wark Lonely Planet author

Software Development at Lonely Planet is generally all about building fast, reliable, scalable web applications for the masses which unfortunately means (limited) support for non-javascript browsers and supporting the dreaded IE6!

This has been put aside for a small cross-functional team…

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Stopping BlogSherpa recruitment

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

It’s been an incredible journey so far – we’ve launched the biggest and best travel blog network around, and more importantly – it’s worked.
It’s now time for us to take a step back and examine what we’ve achieved, and what we need to do next – in particular we need to examine some of the…

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The Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards 2010

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

They’re coming…. last year we had a blast and this year is going to be even better.
Nominations will open within the next month before voting and a live event announcing the winners shortly after…. keep your eyes here and on @lplabs on twitter for up to date information as it’s announced

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Lonely Planet’s Green Server Room

nigeldalton Lonely Planet author

by Julian Nikadie
It has always irked me that we have air conditioners running in the Lonely Planet server room 24 hours a day, every day of the year – even when we’re running heaters to warm the rest of the building. Such a waste of energy.
The need to redesign the server room to allow us…

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GovHack, Lonely Planet Hack Day – roundup

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

I’m just now resurfacing after a mammoth run of Hack Days here in Australia. First there was the pre-govhack briefing run by Deloitte Digital. Then there was the GovHack itself up in Canberra, and finally this weekend there was MelHack run out of Lonely Planet.
I made it up to Canberra for GovHack and had an…

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LP Hack Day and GovHack Join forces

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

GovHack and Lonely Planet have got together to make the Hack Day on the 7th & 8th November even better.
The Hack Day will run out of Lonely Planet’s HQ in Footscray, and GovHack will be bringing along all of it’s data, it’s knowledge, and will be running a series of workshops and classes on…

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Mob Refactor

Leon Messerschmidt Lonely Planet author

In the Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond popularized the words, otherwise known as Linus’ law that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”.  Linus’ law is actually just a nice way of telling developers that two heads are better than one and it doesn’t only apply to open source.  Which brings us to the…

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LP Hack Day – Nov 7th & 8th

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

The very first Lonely Planet Hack Day in Australia.
Join the teams responsible for the development of lonelyplanet.com, the Lonely Planet mobile apps and the new Lonely Planet Open Social Platform for the very first Lonely Planet Hack Day.
Fresh on the heels of a massively successful mobile hack day in London (http://overtheair.org), and our own…

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Facebook Connect live

Katie Marcar Lonely Planet author

This fortnight’s release to Lonelyplanet.com is exciting for us because it marks the launch of our Facebook Connect initiative, which lets Facebook members sign up to lonelyplanet.com and participate in our community without a separate log in (and then published their LP activity back out to Facebook).
Below are highlights of the changes introduced, and here’s…

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Recent improvements to lonelyplanet.com

Katie Marcar Lonely Planet author

Last week we successfully released another fortnight’s worth of changes to Lonelyplanet.com.
It is a fairly small batch we can announce this time as the team has been working for 4 weeks on functionality for the following fortnight’s release. So stay tuned…
Below are highlights of the changes we introduced this time:

We made it easier for users…

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