Software & IT on the Twittisphere (Lab 1, Part 1, Question 4)

From reading both articles, my chosen 'buzz' word that I found rather interesting was 'Hallway Testing'. Coming from a statistical background the word test jumps out from the page. So I did what anyone would do when they are unfamiliar with a word or topic. I googled it! According to Wikipedia, Hallway testing is a "quick and cheap method of usability testing ... in which randomly selected people are asked to try using a product or service". Your sample base for this type of test are people you can find "in the hallway", hence the name, Hallway testing. I found this interesting as generally when making a sample space to collect the data you are interested in, it tends to be a long and difficult process, particularly if one wishes to make the sample space random, (its harder then you think when you start to think of all the possible variables that may influence your sample).

I was asked to follow three people on twitter who may provide valid information for my course, (Higher Diploma in Computing in Dublin Institute of Technology for those who want to know).
Any-ways, I started to think who may be important or who can provide help or tips in a tweet? The first person I have followed on the Twittisphere is Python creator, Guido Van Rossum @gvanrossum. As I am studying Python as part of my OO software developing module, it only seems appropriate to follow the creator. Maybe I can tweet him for help in my assignments ..

The second person I followed is Ray Wenderlick @rwenderlick. Ray is a software developer for Apple, in particular the iPhone. Why not follow someone who develops software for one the leading if not the leading phone manufacturers in the world?. Also fun fact, Apples total revenue for the iPhone along in the last quarter alone for 2015 was 51.2 BILLION!

Finally, I followed John Resig @jeresig. Creator of Javascript and jquery it only seems approperiate to follow him as again I will be learing Javascript this semester. I hope that he will Tweet some helpful material related to my course but I am sure whatever he tweets, with over 203K followers, its ought to be interesting at least.