Ryan Joy (atxryan)

“If knowledge was available, you should be able to get to it from a phone. At that moment I realized that I had spent most of my adult life working to put a personal computer on every desktop in every home at Microsoft and it occured to me that there was a fundamental shift going [...]

What news have you heard or seen on Twitter first? I’m talking about the kind of news that would’ve been breaking on CNN had you been watching at the time. After each of these tweet discoveries, I went to the Internet to find out more. Here, I’ll go first… this is all from memory, so [...]

My development environment consists of a Dell PC (with dual flat panel displays) and my Macbook Pro. I’d LOVE to add a third monitor to the PC to be dedicated to the stack trace, diagnostic outputs, and console logs, but that’s another story. On these machines I have IDEs, an SQL analyzer, and text editors [...]

Paul Menard, Jeff Bernier, Michelle Greer, and Jen Simmons and I made the trek last night to Frisco, Texas for WordCamp Dallas 2008. Today was day one and it’s been very informative thus far. Highlights include: Matt Mullenweg announced the official release of WordPress 2.5 during his talk this morning! You can download it and [...]

I subscribe to Investor’s Business Daily for insight and valuable education as I gradually learn how to effectively invest in the market. It comes out Monday-Friday and obviously is very time relevant. I initially signed up for the print version so that I could read it on the bus and have something to highlight. However, [...]

I received my brand new Macbook Pro from Apple less than three months ago. I was apprehensive about spending that much on a single machine that I didn’t know how to troubleshoot, upgrade, or really even take apart. I was a PC guy used to building my computers from barebones kits, but I figured it [...]

Let’s get one thing straight: the ability to run AJAX style apps from a browser does not constitute a smartphone. Plus, Steve Jobs may have just redefined & reinvigorated the ‘Web 2.0′ buzzword just when we were moving past it. Let’s hope that there will be an SDK very soon… or at the very least, [...]

Looks like the rumors were true: Safari 3 beta is available for Windows. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out in market share, not to mention the developer headaches. The ability to drag tabs to their own window is a neat feature that brings that Mac ‘flavor’ to the Windows environment. I can’t [...]

Their tag line reads “What if your photo collection was an entry point into the world, like a wormhole that you could jump through and explore”. I have to say that I think the last time I felt this excited about software that wasn’t designed to improve my efficiency, but is instead designed to improve [...]

My new Macbook Pro arrived this morning! Thing is though, I’m not a Mac person. I’m not even yet a convert. I work on a PC at work, have a linux desktop at home, and a linux server for remote-everything. I need tips. Tricks. Application suggestions. Resources. What’s your favorite text-editor? Dashboard widgets? AppleScripts? What [...]