Ryan Parman

Ryan Parman

Technologist and Entrepreneur

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

Demos and Experiments

Large open-source projects (e.g. SimplePie, CloudFusion), demos (e.g. S3Browser, FB-iCalendar), utilities (e.g. RequestCore, CacheCore, DOMBuilder), quick-and-dirty toolkits (e.g. iTunes, Last.fm, Flickr), userscripts, and other snippets are all available on GitHub.

What you'll find here are whatever is NOT on GitHub. These experiments are in various states of completeness.

Amazon Artwork Search (PHP)

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. Not licensed for re-use.

Chow (PHP)

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). Not licensed for re-use, but uses some code from the GMaps and Yelp! examples that you can use.

GeoLocation (JavaScript)

A simple proof-of-concept for mapping your current location (determined by your Wi-Fi signal) and displaying it on a map. Requires Firefox 3.5! Released to the Public Domain.