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Ryan Parman
Technologist and Entrepreneur

Ryan Parman

Ryan Parman is an entrepreneur, open source evangelist and passionate usability advocate currently living in Seattle. He is the founder and visionary behind SimplePie and CloudFusion, co-founder of WarpShare, member of the RSS Advisory Board, and is currently with Amazon. Ryan's aptly-named blog, Flailing Wildly, is where he writes about ideas longer than 140 characters.


Flickr

  • Star Wars Hexalogy
  • trick_question
  • Alyson
  • Alyson
  • Workaround
  • Effects of Alcohol
  • Steph
  • Piracy vs. paying customer
  • Matthew retrospect
  • Geocache

Twitter

Random thoughts about daily minutiae.


  • Apple had nailed the iTunes interface by version 8. Everything since then has been a downward slide. http://j.mp/deCER2
    Posted 4 hours ago
  • Still need to pack for my flight to Phoenix tomorrow. Where has the evening gone?
    Posted 14 hours ago
  • Follow me on iTunes Ping. :) http://j.mp/skyzyx-itunes
    Posted 14 hours ago
  • This is the very first time I've been unhappy with an iTunes upgrade. I don't like the new visual style, & I preferred the old hybrid view.
    Posted 14 hours ago
  • Wait, didn't the last iPod nano shoot video? What have they done?
    Posted 15 hours ago

Delicious

Things I've recently bookmarked.


  • Jackalope Stats: Real-time web stats — yesterday #analytics #nodejs
  • 3-2-1: A reverse HTTP proxy/load balancer in Node.js. — yesterday #javascript #nodejs #web-server
  • Wrath JS: Hosted Testing Suite — yesterday #javascript #testing
  • 43 Tips for Optimizing PHP code — 3 days ago #optimization #performance #php
  • Developing an Accessible Star Ratings Widget — 4 days ago #css #javascript #accessibility #usability
  • Merging two unrelated repositories — 4 days ago #git
  • PHP Observers — 4 days ago #php #design-patterns
  • nDistro: Build your own node distribution using a simple configuration file — 4 days ago #nodejs #web-server
  • Webshell: A console-based, JavaScripty HTTP client utility — 4 days ago #http #javascript #tools #nodejs
  • Want to pack JS and CSS really well?: Convert it to a PNG and unpack it via Canvas — 4 days ago #css #javascript #optimization #performance

Last.fm

Music I've been listening to lately.


YouTube

Videos I've recently favorited.


Socially-aware
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  • Glue
  • YouTube
  • Delicious
  • LinkedIn
Claim to fame
  • Amazon Web Services
  • WarpShare
  • CloudFusion
  • SimplePie
Legal mumbo-jumbo

All ideas, opinions and comments I post are my own and are in no way affiliated with anybody I work with. If you quote and/or reprint something I've written or said, please direct folks back to this site as a form of attribution. I promise I'll do the same for you. Unless otherwise noted, all content on this site is copyright © 1979–2010 Ryan Parman. Powered by Rocket Sauce.