Ryan Parman

Ryan Parman

Technologist and Entrepreneur

Founder and visionary behind SimplePie and Tarzan, co-founder of WarpShare, and member of the RSS Advisory Board. Recognized leader in syndication and cloud computing, open source evangelist, and passionate usability advocate. Read more.

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Movie Review: Avatar

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

James Cameron has made some pretty incredible movies over the past 25 years, and Avatar will end up doing for movies what the iPod did for digital music. Most of the 3D movies I’ve seen in years-past have been very gimmicky. The 3D is overbearing, and the directors seem to think it’s funny to break “The [...]

WebKit 3D CSS Transforms

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

I came across the following demos of the new 3D CSS Transform functionality in the latest WebKit builds. These will be making their way into Safari, Google Chrome, iPhone, and Android sometime soon. Snow Stacks (Can’t see the video? Watch it directly.) Image Fly [...]

Installing PHP 5.3 with mysqlnd on Mac OS X with MacPorts

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Historically, I've always preferred to use Apple's built-in Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.x that comes with Leopard. However, after trying to compile PHP 5.3 from scratch and connect it with Apache, I decided to just use the MacPorts installer instead. That did mean giving up control of a finely-tuned Apache installation, but in the end, I think I've ended up with a better localhost system.

Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VirtualBox on Mac OS X

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

These days I'm looking to save money anywhere I can. How about you? Whereas VMWare Fusion (as awesome as it is) runs around $80 USD per copy, Sun's VirtualBox is a free, open-source product for virtualization that runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. If you've not yet read the related post, "Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VMWare Fusion on Mac OS X," you should. This is a follow up on how to take those virtual machines (which we've already done a lot of work on), and convert them for use VirtualBox.

Those kids and their Wiis

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

I remember back to the late 80’s when I would play Super Mario Bros. with my friends. The one defining aspect of playing that game back then was that I would try to make Mario jump by jerking my controller up in the air. Of course this didn’t do anything, but it was just a [...]

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Last.fm

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Gone (feat. Consequence and Cam'Ron)

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Praying For Time

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The Set Up (You Need This)

Reel Big Fish

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Tomorrow

Avril Lavigne

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Confessions, Part II

Usher

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Paperface (Kitchen Tapes)

Weezer

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Bookmarks

  1. I need to talk to you about computers.:
  2. Microsoft's problematic lack of nightly builds for IE: Many wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer nightly builds—or at least something fairly frequent—of Internet Explorers. Ars talks to Microsoft's general manager for Internet Explorer, who says the IE9 development cycle will look much the same as previous versions. We don't think that's a great idea.
  3. How Amazon EC2 came to be: Interesting write-up by an engineer and short video with Bezos that talks about why EC2 was built.
  4. Why hasn't Vista sold well?:
  5. Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web.: I encounter so much of this on a daily basis.

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