Ryan Joy (atxryan)

Austin WordPress users: Andy Skelton announced that the May GeekAustin Happy Hour would be co-hosted with WordPress on Tuesday, May 20th. Like the previous two GeekAustin events, this one is to be held downtown at J. Blacks on W. Sixth. I can attest that LinearB throws a great party, so come out and have a [...]

I registered today to attend WordCamp Dallas to be held March 29th – 30th. It should be fun! Thanks to Paul for alerting me to this mini-conference.

Today I’m testing out blogging from Textmate on my Mac. I’m not sure that I’ll ever blog from my text editor as my primary mode of publishing content to my website. For one thing, I didn’t see how to utilize tagging. But it does seem more natural to write, especially code, in an environment that [...]

The Austin American-Statesman has partnered with Quattro Wireless and updated their mobile web portal. You can view the new mobile site by visiting http://statesman.com in your mobile browser, or directly by visiting http://statesman.qwapi.com. I’d never seen the qwapi.com domain before, but a little Google search shows that the service is quite popular with content portals. [...]

Are you or your users are getting a “This page contains both secure and nonsecure items” message in Internet Explorer? You might mistakenly believe that it is a problem isolated to IE, but if you check the bottom right corner of Firefox you’ll see that all is not well there either: The issue here is [...]

I’m very pleased to announce that a redesigned Refresh Austin website has been launched. Many thanks (and beers!) are due to Alex for leading up this effort and putting in the time to get the site up. However, the work is not done. The site needs to grow in terms of content and participation from [...]

Here’s a link to the presentation I gave during Refresh Austin‘s September meeting. Mobile Web: A Primer on Design and Development

Apple mentions standards no less than four times in this press release. Web 2.0 is a buzzword, not a standard.

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 [...]

I’ve told anyone who would listen for some time now that Facebook was the future in social networks. It’s underlying technology blows away anything MySpace or Bebo brings to the table. LinkedIn is a more comparable site. Now Facebook has announced their new online platform strategy, f8, which seeks to approach an online operating system [...]