by Ryan Parman • October 11, 2008 • Projects • No comments
Today we announce an updated Tarzan pre-release build for any developers not using the subversion trunk. A lot of work has gone into Tarzan over the past 2 months since the last release, namely: Added the ability to change the content-type of an existing object in S3. Fixed some minor bugs in SimpleDB and S3. [...]
by Ryan Parman • October 2, 2008 • Projects • 1 comments
If you’ve been following my blog over the past few years, you might remember an old project I was working on back in early 2005 called Tarzan. At the time, the only Amazon web service was their e-catalog (e-commerce) service, and that was was Tarzan specialized in. I ended up scrapping the project around the [...]
by Ryan Parman • July 17, 2008 • Just for Fun • 1 comments
If you’re a fan of Joss Whedon (Firefly, Serenity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Nathan Fillon (Firefly, Serenity), Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser M.D., How I Met Your Mother), musicals, and comedy, you should take the time to check out Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Doogie, I mean Barney, I mean Neil Patrick Harris plays a fantastic [...]
by Ryan Parman • July 17, 2008 • Personal • No comments
I’m visiting my best friend Eric in Chicago this weekend. I’ve never been to Chicago before, but I must say that the few blocks of downtown that I’ve seen are simply breathtaking. Beautiful architecture and tall buildings give this place a very different feel from the more familiar San Francisco or San Jose, CA. Between [...]
by Ryan Parman • June 28, 2008 • Code, Software, Tutorials • 4 comments
I’ve spent a bit of time working with Amazon EC2 recently. One of the things I’ve been working on is getting a stable build of FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP running on a Fedora 8 image in Amazon EC2. This is essentially going to be a tutorial to get things up and running. Of course, your milage [...]
by Ryan Parman • May 11, 2008 • Code, Design, Projects • No comments
Internally known as “Aurora,” the new Yahoo! Messenger redesign has finally launched! I was going to write something up about it, but Ryan Doherty and Adrien Cahen have all written plenty. Check it out! Also, Digg it! http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Yahoo_Messenger_website_is_LIVE
by Ryan Parman • April 9, 2008 • Design, Software, Technology • 1 comments
Twitter has tweaked their design as of this morning, and they added a link titled “Tell us your story,” in which they ask about your thoughts as a Twitter user. Here’s what I had to say. I’m an information junkie with a limited attention span. Twitter has all of the interesting links and thoughts of [...]
by Ryan Parman • January 28, 2008 • Political • No comments
I was born and raised a fundamentalist Christian Republican. I voted for Bush both times — not because I liked him, but because he was the Republican candidate, I didn’t really care, and the Democratic candidates seemed like a worse choice. But over the past few years, I’ve really been digging into the details of [...]
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