by Ryan Parman • December 14, 2012 • Apple, Personal, Projects, Software • No comments
As we lead-up to Christmas (and other holidays that I don’t personally celebrate), I thought I’d put together a list of a few of my favorite things — Mac apps top be specific. These are some of my favorite music and video apps. iTunes, iTunes Match, Last.fm, Spotify & Tracks I’ve been using iTunes to [...]
by Ryan Parman • December 13, 2012 • Apple, Personal, Projects, Software • 1 comments
As we lead-up to Christmas (and other holidays that I don’t personally celebrate), I thought I’d put together a list of a few of my favorite things — Mac apps top be specific. These are some of my favorite day-to-day apps. Safari My favorite web browser on the Mac platform. It’s fast, has minimal UI [...]
by Ryan Parman • April 7, 2011 • Family Life, Projects, Work and Business • No comments
In July 2006, I co-founded a startup along with three of the smartest guys I’ve ever met. Four and a half years later, the company has just recently launched something that I’d consider pre-alpha. Although I’m no longer with the company, I truly wish the remaining team the absolute best. We had some groundbreaking and [...]
by Ryan Parman • February 27, 2011 • Projects, Tutorials • 1 comments
Although the AWS SDK for PHP is growing as fast as Amazon’s breadth of web services, it should still be easy to find the information that you need in order to develop. This is a goal that I take very seriously. Back in 2005, I took a job with Stryker Endoscopy as a member of [...]
by Ryan Parman • September 28, 2010 • Projects • No comments
It’s always been a dream of mine to get paid to work on something I love. I spent more than 5 years working on SimplePie, and although it gained hundreds of thousands of users all over the world, it never gave anything back to me. It was a labor of love, and I did it [...]
by Ryan Parman • February 27, 2009 • Code, Projects • 4 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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