Week notes: Links, bullets and coverage galore

Add some flare to your sessions

Now you can add links and bullet points to Lanyrd's session pages. We've turned on a simple mini-language for adding inline links and lists. You can try it out over here. Bullet point lists can be added like so:

* a bullet
* another bullet
* and another

Which will render as a proper bullet-pointed list, like this:

• a bullet
• another bullet
• and another

We still automatically turn any URLs in the descriptions in to links, but you can now specify link text yourself using the following:

[http://example.com An example link]

Which will display like this: An example link.

Don't worry about remembering which comes first out of the URL or the text - either order works fine.

Last week in conference coverage

We're deep in to spring conference season now, and the slides and videos have been coming in thick and fast. RailsConf 2012 took place in Austin last week and our community has gathered 44 slide decks from the event - videos of the sessions expected to start going online this week.

Also last week was The Next Web, one of Europe's largest startup and entrepreneurship gatherings. They've published video from every one of the sessions on YouTube.

And finally, if you're in the mood for something a little shorter, the London Node.js User Group April meeting featured 10 lightning talks on Node.js and JavaScript related topics, all of which are were recorded and have now been published online.