John O'Nolan: Archive

Discrimination

[Edit:] Sick of having my words twisted, misquoted and misinterpreted, so I’ll leave it at this: I believe people should be treated equally regardless of gender or ethnicity. I believe conference speakers should be selected based on merit, not to meet some arbitrary diversity quota. I believe that asking someone to speak based on race/gender hugely devalues their achievements. I think that...

Apr 26th

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Apr 2nd

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Apr 2nd

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“it’s a wrong decision to assume that an overlay won’t interfere with...”

– I always find it quite amazing when people receive a WordPress update and are immediately critical of certain elements of it (particularly with new/changed UI). Then I remember, I used to do exactly the same thing… before I started contributing to core. When it comes to contributing to...

Feb 23rd

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“For the past few months now I’ve been hinting that I’ve been working on...”

– Gilbert Pellegrom’s Blog: BioThemes

Feb 2nd

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Exclusive Interview: Phosr Founders, John O’Nolan,...

startuplistinterviews: There has been a steadily growing hype of what the mysterious, yet stunning holding page with Phosr gently placed in the middle, was really aiming to become. Now, the creative team behind it, accepted our invite for an interview to explain what Phosr truly is. We hope you enjoy this completely exclusive, engaging, and inspiring interview of the team behind Phosr, who...

Jan 4th

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Oct 6th

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Watch

kittensaysdie: This is @RickNunn taking photos of @JohnONolan getting covered in water thrown by @Japh. Funny. See the final shot here:

Jul 19th

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Jul 18th

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GPL, WooThemes and a bit of credit →

I don’t want this to turn into some giant argument but just hear me out. Everyone raves about GPL, the community, giving back, blah blah. This kind of stuff generally drives me a bit mad but whatever, drop in the ocean stuff. WordPress 3.0 features a brand new way to organize your navigation…. Some facts need to be corrected here: Did WooThemes contribute code and concept to WP3.0...

Jun 1st

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Why The "Lost & Found" iPhone 4G is a Load of Crap

Consider the following: Apple is obsessively secretive. It’s almost as secretive as a covert government agency. Like CIA operatives, Apple employees won’t talk about what they do, even with their closest confidants: wives, boyfriends, parents. Employees certainly will not discuss their work with outsiders. Many won’t even refer to the company by name. Like superstitious theater...

Apr 19th

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Mar 14th

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“I love quoting for projects at this idiotic web design agency that we work for....”

– FixUpLookSharp

Feb 19th

eCommerce UX Question

I’m currently building a site which is going to be selling software, the pricepoint is around $100 and while there are lots of different bits of software available, users are unlikely to want to buy more than 1 item at a time. Based on that, is it wise to eliminate the shopping cart? So for example the user path would be Product Page > Login/Register > Payment Rather than Product...

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Dec 11th

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Macs, They Just Break in a More Aesthetic Way

John: stupid PC
John: get a mac!
Eris: it's no different
Eris: eventually a mac breaks just like a PC
Eris: it just breaks in a  more aesthetic way

Dec 11th

Nov 17th

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Nov 11th

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Nov 9th

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Can Dogs Eat Raw Carrot?

Phil: can dogs eat raw carrot?
Phil: sorry, I know it's going amazingly off subject
Phil: but the dog just ran in here and it's got a carrot
Phil: I'm not taking it off it
Phil: I didn't think a dog would eat a carrot but I'm being proven wrong as we speak!
John: ....

Nov 8th

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Writing a Book

I posed a question to the readers of my blog last week about whether or not they’d be interested to read a title by yours truly, something which I’ve been thinking about for a long time. I’ve been very pleased with the response to both the poll and the comments, so I’m going to go ahead and put together a book proposal at the very least. This will essentially be used to...

Nov 7th

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The Best Accounting Software on The Web →

As reviewed in detail on my blog - check out FreeAgent if you’re freelance, self-employed, or thinking about becoming either of the above.

Nov 6th

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Watch

How to Choose a Business Model - A hugely inspirational video of Roan Lavery from FreeAgent giving a keynote presentation at FOWA2009 about making money from your web application.

Nov 5th

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“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the...”

– Sydney Harris

Nov 4th

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Nov 2nd

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Japh The Stalker

Japh: You've got a group all of your own in my TweetDeck so I can keep an eye on you while I'm sleeping.
John: Seriously?
Japh: Hell yeah.
John: That's f£$%ing awesome.

Nov 2nd

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Nov 1st

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A Tumbl Per Day...

…definitely doesn’t keep the doctor away. But it might just be an ideal post frequency for this sort of format. 1 tweet per hour, 1 tumblr per day, 1 blog per week - that sort of thing. We’ll see how it goes!

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Oct 28th

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“Son got named School Vice Captain for next year. Means he’s the 1st loser....”

– Brendon Sinclair

Oct 28th

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800 Words > Tumblr > 140 Characters

There’s a small void in my online existance right now. Occasionally I have things to say which are longer than a tweet (140 chars), but shorter than my average blog post (800 words). So despite my skeptiscism in the value of Tumblr in the past, I’m going to give it a go. This concludes the introduction, please go about your business as normal.

Oct 19th