About My Site

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This website is now powered by my own homebrew CMS, but it wouldn’t have been easy, or perhaps even possible, without the efforts of the following groups and people.

Thank you

to The PHP Group for PHP, everyone’s favorite web scripting language (unless it’s Ruby or Python or Perl…)
to John Lim for the database abstraction library ADOdb and Mark Dickenson for paring it down to ADOdb Lite. (License: BSD)
to the PEAR contributors, especially Fabien Marty for Cache_Lite. (License: LGPL)
to John Gruber for SmartyPants and Markdown.
to Michel Fortin for PHP Markdown Extra and PHP SmartyPants Typographer. Update (May 21, 2008): I think he just updated PHP Markdown within a week after I reported a (rare) bug (and he kindly and promptly replied with a workaround). Michel is my new hero.
to Manuel Lemos for his easy-to-use feed generator, the RSS Writer class. (License: BSD)
to Bret Kuhns for his PHP Akismet class. (License: MIT)
to Automattic for the Akismet anti-comment-spam API.
to the W3C, the WaSP, the Web Developer toolbar, Firebug, and all the non-Microsoft browsers, for making web development a little easier.
to my beloved web browser, the ever-innovative Opera.
to the fabulous web development community at WebDesignForums.net for being a great place to give and receive help and advice. Especial thanks to the moderators and Arien Talabac.
to the contributors of CyberDuck, my Mac FTP client.
to Panic for making Coda, a text editor and so much more (“one-window web development” for the win, ladies and gentlemen). It’s even better than they say it is.

Content and graphics

The content and graphics on this site are my own except for where noted and for the work of the kind people and groups listed here.

Many thanks to Mark James for his Silk icon set. (License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5)
Comments remain © original posters (though commenters implicitly give me the right to publish their contributions).
The feed and share icons are © their creators; used with permission. (See also: more feed icons)

Licenses and copyright

I believe to be in compliance with all respective licenses and copyrights of all the libraries and works on my website, including those listed above. If this is not the case, please immediately contact me.

With the exception of the works referenced above and where noted, all content and graphics on this site are © Alan Hogan, all rights reserved. For information regarding licensing, republishing, or translating my work, please contact me. Of course, your fair-use rights are held intact: You may freely quote appropriate (small) portions of my content, use it for educational purposes, or — Lord knows why you would want to — create a parody of my website.

(Please note that the above credits and acknowledgements do not constitute endorsement of me, my site, or my services by any of the above entities. For example The PHP Group says, “we honestly have no way of knowing whether your project is actually the greatest thing ever.”)