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Introducing DOMBuilder

by Ryan Parman • February 27, 2009 • Code, Projects • 3 comments

I hate the DOM. Actually, I take that back. I love the DOM, but I hate the fact that generating DOM nodes in JavaScript is so verbose and unintuitive. You need to construct a new element, then add properties, then construct a child element, then add properties, then append the child to the parent, and [...]


Tarzan 2.0 is finally here!

by Ryan Parman • December 10, 2008 • Projects • No comments

After 18 months of ongoing development, I am proud to announce the immediate availability of Tarzan 2.0! The Tarzan platform has complete support for six different AWS services (S3, CloudFront, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS, and Amazon Associates) and has been built from the ground-up to be fast, memory-efficient, easy to use, and easy to build on [...]


New Tarzan pre-release is available!

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. [...]


Tarzan 2

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 [...]


Yahoo! Messenger redesign is live!

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


SimplePie Plugin for WordPress

by Ryan Parman • June 7, 2006 • Projects • No comments

When we launched SimplePie Beta 2 last week, we launched with a couple of plugins. The first is a SimplePie Plugin for WordPress, the ever-popular blogging tool from the fine folks at automattic. This plugin adds a single function to your WordPress function ensemble that makes it simple to add SimplePie to your WordPress templates. [...]


SimplePie Beta 2 is now available!

by Ryan Parman • June 2, 2006 • Code, Projects, Software, Syndication • 2 comments

After several months of toiling over this release, and the past few weekends pouring over the documentation, we are now very proud to release SimplePie Beta 2! Nearly every major feature has been enhanced, as well as the addition of several new ones. Be sure to read the upgrade docs if you’re upgrading from Beta [...]


We need your feeds!

by Ryan Parman • March 26, 2006 • Code, Projects, Software, Syndication, Technology • No comments

RSS and Atom feeds that aren’t either UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 have proven difficult to find, so I’m calling out to all of you. If you read or publish feeds that are in a character set other than these two, please post them here in the comments. We’ve just finished adding iconv support to SimplePie, and [...]

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