Alan Hogan

Things Alan Hogan feels like sharing.

These are my comments on music, movies, books, web development and programming, Mac tips, and life in general. Enjoy!

Thu Dec 4

RT @opera: Opera 10 alpha scores 100/100 on Acid3 test- a major achievement

RT @jmoriarty Crawling Heebie Jeebies … click this link and imagine this in your yard: http://is.gd/9Zdn

On software patents: http://is.gd/afYD

Everyone click “I have this question too” – Twitter people-search usability is absolute crap http://is.gd/ag70

Wed Dec 3

Fantastic video for anyone in tech or anyone who wants to be a mover and shaker http://is.gd/9Lj0 (by @zefrank, thx @brianshaler)

Tue Dec 2

Broken window theory!

Prophetic Wordplay of the Day: Cabinet of Rivals, abbreviated, is cabal.

(For the record, we discussed groupthink in psychology today and I am thrilled Obama is actively avoiding groupthink by encouraging dissent)

Loving andy’s Django talk. It looks like a lovely system.

Great when a teammate drops the ball and decides to write code that doesn’t match the spec and is 600 lines of copy-pasted junk

Mon Dec 1

Pownce: Lovely posting interface, mediocre reading interface. Twitter’s brevity was its success

A good example for all http://is.gd/9Cs5

Sun Nov 30

is not a programming God but could be a minor deity someday

Oh Java, you and your String.equals() – just get out of my life.

Sat Nov 29

Seriously? Java has no «< HEREDOC syntax? Man, I find a new reason to hate Java everyday