Elan Hasson's Personal Blog

10 programming languages worth checking out - H3RALD

Elan Hasson — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:55:00 +0000

10 programming languages worth checking out - H3RALD

Source: www.h3rald.com

H3RALD - Fabio Cevasco's Web Site

Community Post » Blog Archive » FAU graduate, partner create ‘Hilbeary’ to sell their whimsical cl

Elan Hasson — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:04:36 +0000

Community Post » Blog Archive » FAU graduate, partner create ‘Hilbeary’ to sell their whimsical cl

Source: blogs.palmbeachpost.com

Florida Atlantic University graduate Evan Hasson and his girlfriend, Hilary Pines, created Hilbeary to sell their clay bears.

Metal Alloy Purifies Water and Generates Electricity | Alternative Energy | Aluminum | InnovationNe

Elan Hasson — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:34:11 +0000

Metal Alloy Purifies Water and Generates Electricity | Alternative Energy | Aluminum | InnovationNe

Source: www.innovationnewsda...

A new alloy of aluminum, designed by researchers at Purdue University, generates electricity and purified water.

Bill Gross - Google+ - From the "fingers" of babes... "This past summer, I…

Elan Hasson — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:15:13 +0000

Bill Gross - Google+ - From the "fingers" of babes... "This past summer, I…

Source: plus.google.com

From the "fingers" of babes... "This past summer, I gathered a group of 20 babies between the ages of 14 and 20 months. I handed each one a BlackBerry.…

Wendy's

Elan Hasson — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:06:53 +0000

Wendy's

Source: www.facebook.com

Wendy's - Wendy's Official Facebook Page. Follow us at twitter.com/wendys. | Facebook

Today's Google Offer in Miami - $5 for one Fandango movie ticket (up to $13 value)

Elan Hasson — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:54:59 +0000

Today's Google Offer in Miami - $5 for one Fandango movie ticket (up to $13 value)

Source: www.google.com

Stay tuned Miami - more offers coming soon. Buy your ticket in advance & breeze past the box office. Valid at Fandango-partnered theaters. Hundreds of show times in and near Miami. Not valid at box office; redeem at www.fandango.com.

Peering into Time [Explored]

Elan Hasson — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:15:38 +0000

Peering into Time [Explored]

Source: www.flickr.com

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

The GOP is trying to rig the electoral college

Elan Hasson — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:20:37 +0000

The GOP is trying to rig the electoral college

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

The Pa. GOP’s plan to undermine majority rule.

Vladimir Putin: Action Man - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

Elan Hasson — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:33:30 +0000

Vladimir Putin: Action Man - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

Source: www.theatlantic.com

Vladimir Putin, the 58-year-old former President and current prime minister of Russia, has cultivated a distinct public image over the past several years. The politician has piloted firefighting planes, darted whales, driven race cars, and even took a submersible 1,400 meters (4,600 ft) below the su...

Spartacus star Andy Whitfield, 39, dies in Sydney

Elan Hasson — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:14:12 +0000

Spartacus star Andy Whitfield, 39, dies in Sydney

Source: www.news.com.au

ANDY Whitfield, the 39-year-old star of the cable series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has died in Sydney.

Zucchini Duck

Elan Hasson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:09:48 +0000

Zucchini Duck

Source: www.flickr.com

My mother-in-law grew this in her backyard. Naturally, I was compelled to bring it home and to photograph it. I was also compelled to make:

What You Missed While Not Watching Last Night’s Reagan Library GOP Debate | Swampland | TIME.com

Elan Hasson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:26:37 +0000

What You Missed While Not Watching Last Night’s Reagan Library GOP Debate | Swampland | TIME.com

Source: swampland.time.com

0 minutes. Presidential debates come and go. But tonight’s GOP debate, the fourth in a series too numerous to bear, is a special treat. “We are all gathered under the wings of Air Force One,” says NBC’s Brian Williams, referring to the great phallus of American presidential might that sits i...

The Khan Academy

Elan Hasson — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:05:19 +0000

The Khan Academy

Source: www.khanacademy.org

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Despite being the work of one man, Salman Khan, this 2100+ video library is the most-used educational video resource as measured by YouTube video views per day and unique users ...

The Disgruntled Bomb - The Daily WTF

Elan Hasson — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:30:56 +0000

The Disgruntled Bomb - The Daily WTF

Source: thedailywtf.com

It's been quite a while since the last Bring Your Own Code. It's mostly because I haven't thought of any coding quandaries that fit in the "totally fun and doable over a quick break" difficulty; everything has been either hello world easy or graduate-level comp sci homework hard. If you've got any i...

How does a programmer become a brogrammer?

Elan Hasson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:00:56 +0000

How does a programmer become a brogrammer?

Source: www.quora.com

Answer (1 of 6): Attire * Polo, tight so the chicks can see how defined your muscles are * Sunglasses, mostly mirrored aviators and multi-colored wayfarers, but mostly any type of sunglasses are accepted [image: http://d2o7bfz2il9cb7.cloudfront.net/main-qimg-2f44a8bdbd94c51507112824fab7ade4][image...

Do Crosscutting Concerns Cause Defects?

Elan Hasson — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:01:03 +0000

Do Crosscutting Concerns Cause Defects?

Source: www.computer.org

There is a growing consensus that crosscutting concerns harm code quality. An example of a crosscutting concern is a functional requirement whose implementation is distributed across multiple software modules. We asked the question,

The demise of the low level Programmer.

Elan Hasson — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:35:24 +0000

The demise of the low level Programmer.

Source: altdevblogaday.com

When I started programming many of the elements we take for granted now, did not exist. There was no DirectX and not many compatible libs were available for the free compilers of the day. So I had to write my own code for most basic programs, keyboard handlers, mouse handlers, video memory accessors

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Fall 2011

Elan Hasson — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:18:35 +0000

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Fall 2011

Source: www.ai-class.com

Official registration will open later this summer. Your information will be kept private and only used to contact you once registration is available.

Nick Farina - An iOS Developer Takes on Android

Elan Hasson — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:47:20 +0000

Nick Farina - An iOS Developer Takes on Android

Source: nfarina.com

An iOS Developer Takes on Android Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps. We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like...

Move System.Runtime.Caching.Dll to Client Framework

Elan Hasson — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:04:57 +0000

Move System.Runtime.Caching.Dll to Client Framework

Source: connect.microsoft.com

The System.Runtime.Caching.dll provides access to the new caching features of the .NET 4 Framework. These features enable data to be cached and can th

Oil Rig Worker Captures Creepy Squid

Elan Hasson — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:27:22 +0000

Oil Rig Worker Captures Creepy Squid

Source: www.keepbusy.net

Watch Oil Rig Worker Captures Creepy Squid, a video at KeepBusy.net. Or Alien from Independence Day?

Apple Now Has More Cash Than The U.S. Government

Elan Hasson — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:39:09 +0000

Apple Now Has More Cash Than The U.S. Government

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Cash in, cash out.

Brain shrinkage is uniquely human

Elan Hasson — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:06:25 +0000

Brain shrinkage is uniquely human

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Chimpanzee brains do not suffer age-related brain shrinkage as humans do, indicating that old age has evolved to "pay for" our bigger brains.

Calif. man tries to remove hernia with butter knife - On Deadline - USATODAY.com

Elan Hasson — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:29:06 +0000

Calif. man tries to remove hernia with butter knife - On Deadline - USATODAY.com

Source: content.usatoday.com

Calif. man tries to remove hernia with butter knife - On Deadline - USATODAY.com

Microsoft Research paper proposes using 'Data Furnaces' to heat the home

Elan Hasson — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:52:17 +0000

Microsoft Research paper proposes using 'Data Furnaces' to heat the home

Source: www.gizmag.com

A Microsoft Research paper proposes distributing servers from data centers to office buildings and homes where they would act as a primary heat so...

Alternatives to malloc and new « #AltDevBlogADay

Elan Hasson — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:36:40 +0000

Alternatives to malloc and new « #AltDevBlogADay

Source: altdevblogaday.com

I really like Sushi, it’s tasty and convenient. I like the immediacy of being able to go into a Sushi restaurant complete with conveyor belt and being able to take a seat and grab something fresh and delicious from the belt without blowing my entire lunch hour. Having said that, what I really wouldn