Ryan Joy (atxryan)

At Blues On The Green at Zilker park. It certainly is a beautiful night in Austin, TX. # following @statesman to get the inside scoop from the newsroom operations. # @marlaerwin only 3 Supreme Court Chief Justices were Associate Justices first. It’s actually a rarity. # @marlaerwin I remember being upset when Roberts was nominated [...]

listening to Mark Phillip give a presentation on speeding up your site at the Refresh Austin mtg. Response codes and http headers FTW. # “What’s the timestamp on a PHP file?” “who knows? it’s almost existential!” # @crit congrats on being able to take the bus in to work. Use the extra time to check [...]

listening to @omarg on NPR’s segment on the iPhone 2.0 – http://tinyurl.com/5px7rk # viewing photos of the fire damage at the Texas Governor’s Mansion. Very sad. http://tinyurl.com/4ncoto # @Baldman: I can’t speak to @bryanrobison’s experience, but I wish very much that I could be a Grande customer again. They’re not in 78704. # looking forward [...]

Twitter’s strategy to avoid downtime during tomorrow’s wwdc: refresh your browser over at Summize: http://tinyurl.com/5m5b7z # @jowyang she indicated she would throw her full weight behind Obama’s candidacy & asked supporters to do the same http://tinyurl.com/6jbp7w # My puppy betrayed me (http://twitter.com/atxryan/statuses/829323907 ) and left a small surprise in an Account Manager’s cube. :-/ # [...]

at the office watching Blue Lapis Light rehearse for their aerial dance performance tonight http://bluelapislight.org/constellation2008.html # @alexcc yeah, we can see most of it… but the show doesn’t begin ’til 9pm. :-/ # Signing up for mobile testing http://tinyurl.com/679xwe – crowdsourcing FTW? # settling in at Bouldin Creek Cafe for breakfast and project work w/ [...]

It appears that part of Twitter’s strategy to mitigate downtime during WWDC 2008 this year is to push tracking, and therefore traffic and constant refreshing, of the event over to third-party search service, Summize. I’ve noticed before that Summize will often not return the most recent tweets associated with a search. So, it may be [...]

had a very invigorating swim this morning at Barton Springs pool. Now going to do some research and prototyping of a mobile app. A good day! # I brought the puppy in to the office today while I work. He’s napping now. Later, he and I are gonna go for beers at the Gingerman. # [...]

In the course of researching mobile web application prototyping and testing, I came across Mob4Hire, a new service that aims to help mobile application developer with reliable testers through crowdsourcing. I went ahead and signed up. I look forward to testing out my first mobile application and checking out Mob4Hire at the same time. With [...]

Ran across this blog post via @juliegomoll: Dark Roasted Blend: Extreme Sand Sculpting. You’ve got to check out these sand sculptures!

I knew if felt to good to be true… still at the office working to put out fires and get this web application out the door! # @jowyang rtwt: @marlaerwin GOP/Dem VPs since 1980 announced less than 1 wk before convention, except for Edwards in 2004 # Swimming at Barton Springs pool. didn’t know they [...]