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.
Experimental Labs
What you'll find here are experiments in code and design. These experiments are in various states of completeness. I will probably not open-source anything here until it has a bit more fit and finish, and I absolutely won't support anything here even if I do open up the code. An exception, of course, is if I've already open-sourced it elsewhere.
Amazon Artwork Search
I got tired of digging through Amazon.com to find album artwork only to have to open the images up in Fireworks to cut off the extra whitespace. This lets me search for music, movies or books and easily get the artwork sizes I want.
CacheCore
CacheCore is a lightweight caching system for PHP 5.1.4+ that provides a single interface for a variety of storage types. Write your caching logic once and you can switch between caching types by simply changing the class that's instantiated. BSD Licensed.
Chow
A simple mashup that lets you search nearby (via Yahoo! Fire Eagle) for restaurants and hotels (via Yelp), and places the locations on a map (via Google Maps).
Delicious Private Links
Gives you a feed of ALL of your items on delicious — private or public. You should secure the feed with other means (e.g. HTTP Auth). I'm not actually sharing any of my private bookmarks though. :)
iCalendar
This is my attempt at replicating the calendar that is used in places like Facebook and iCal.
RequestCore
RequestCore is a lightweight cURL-based HTTP request/response class that leverages MultiCurl (i.e. curl_multi_exec()) for parallel requests. BSD Licensed.
Roman Numerals
A simple function for converting Roman numerals into their corresponding values.
S3 Browser
A simple web interface for my Amazon S3 account. Displays all files set with "public" permissions.
