Ryan Joy (atxryan)

Matthew Inman built and deployed a full-featured dating website in 66.5 hours. His steps for doing so are excellent guidelines for any personal development project.

Excellent shell editor to test your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript snippets together. Includes the ability to load all major JavaScript libraries. Also, save your code snippets to a unique URL and share!

atxryan: Haha! “If Congress made it rain cookies, the headlines would read: “Democrats Leave Millions Milkless.” – Jon Stewart on The Daily Show

I have a number of friends and colleagues who work under the Demand Media umbrella; namely at Pluck. Every single one of them are top-notch professionals dedicated to delivering the best product possible. That said, and despite the obvious slant to the article, the points about Demand’s factory model of content creation are valid. And [...]

10 non-PowerPoint books that can help you create better presentations

atxryan: What if… William Shakespeare wrote ‘The Big Lebowski’? http://runleiarun.com/lebowski /via @davegoodine [Excellent and thorough!]

What if… William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski?

atxryan: This is a fun Twitter bug; follower & DM notification being sent in Spanish: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=twitter+spanish

atxryan: Wishing someone a ‘Happy Birthday’ on Facebook should replace ‘Poke’. Let us click a link and post a generic wish. It’s what we do anyway.

I wasn't aware that there is a burgeoning standard for social network's Activity Stream feeds. This is great news as it ensures that walled gardens are being dismantled.