Ryan Joy (atxryan)

How do you and your organization incorporate web standards into your development? Dr. David Robins and Sanda Katila are conducting a survey on the adoption of web standards in your design and development processes. If you have a moment, take the survey.

I got into a discussion with coworkers last week that reminded me that everyone does not use websites in the same way, even power users and creators of technology. What surprised me most was that their use of the same feature was almost the exact opposite of mine. Our own assumptions informed our bias for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mozilla is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in a single day. They’ve not announced the actual day yet, but you can pledge to download Firefox 3 on Download Day 2008 here. Pledging will also ensure that you’re informed of the date to download and also of the actual [...]

My coworker, Alex, posted the following tweet today referencing our fried chicken taste-off planned for tomorrow: Setting up the rules for fast food fried chicken taste-off in the office tomorrow. To which, Popeyes Chicken chimed in with: @alexcc I know the winner! I know it! Do we have to wait until tomorrow to announce? (sounds [...]

Andy Skelton announced that Automattic is looking into opening an Austin WordPress Professional Office. The office would be open to designers and developers who earn their living primarily through WordPress. If this sounds like something that might interest you, head on over to Andy’s blog and let ‘em know in the comments.

Highlights for this day include: Listening to Charles Strickland, Jonathan Bailey of PlagiarismToday, Mark Jaquith, March Ghosh, and Matt Mullenweg joined together to live record the 39th episode of The WordPress Podcast. Aaron Brazell went over WordPress FAQs. Topics covered included the epic categories vs. tags, what is GPL (what is free, for that matter>), [...]

Everything went smoothly and it seems that only one plugin, Simple Tags, is not working correctly. Its not causing any errors, but it is not working as expected on the Post page.

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 [...]