Web developer and entrepreneur in Woburn, MA.Tumblr (3.0; @ryantwomey)http://ryantwomey.com/<p>BTW, @cloudsupport was great - they took care of the kernel update and were quick. Not a production server, but they treated it like one.</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/618365663http://ryantwomey.com/post/618365663Fri, 21 May 2010 01:35:09 -0400<p>Upgraded my jaunty vms to karmic, but apparently Rackspace Cloud needs a custom kernel (or the instance won’t boot).</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/618365668http://ryantwomey.com/post/618365668Fri, 21 May 2010 01:35:09 -0400<a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/iZZuP-53mT4/use-the-102030-rule-to-avoid-disastrous-powerpoint-presentations">Use the 10/20/30 Rule to Avoid Disastrous PowerPoint Presentations [Presentations]</a>: <p><span>An oldie-but-goodie post from entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki directly addresses the kind of problems <a target="_blank" href="http://lifehacker.com/5526461/when-powerpoint-does-more-harm-than-good">the military has with complex PowerPoint decks</a>—boring read-throughs stuffed with too much on-screen text. His parameters for preventing audience paralysis is dubbed the 10/20/30 rule.</span></p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/584261826http://ryantwomey.com/post/584261826Sun, 09 May 2010 11:51:39 -0400<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DraconisSoftwareBlog/~3/7hT2i7DsExk/">From Zero to a Million Users</a>: <p><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xobni.com/">Xobni</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dropbox.com">Dropbox</a>, two highly successful VC-backed ventures, had an impressive growth in their users within a fairly short period of time (2 million users within 2 years).  Adam Smith of Xobni has a presentation discussing some many of the lessons learned from the experience of these two startups.</span></p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/584133507http://ryantwomey.com/post/584133507Sun, 09 May 2010 10:49:11 -0400<p>RT @adamsingy Great article on why IE6 just won’t die. <a href="http://j.mp/bUM0ze">http://j.mp/bUM0ze</a></p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/405378477http://ryantwomey.com/post/405378477Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:03:11 -0500<p>First time doing Habitat for Humanity yesterday. Had a great time, though I’m sore today! I did some framing and put up sheetrock</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/404557643http://ryantwomey.com/post/404557643Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:17:52 -0500<p>Not sure why, but my Twitter updates stopped being imported to my Tumblr site.  Hopefully they will again now.</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/404206983http://ryantwomey.com/post/404206983Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:36:30 -0500<p>Blech. I seem to be coming down with something.</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/282678160http://ryantwomey.com/post/282678160Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:06:50 -0500<p>RT @invotrak Invotrak for the iPhone version 2.0 released to Apple for approval! See the details at <a href="http://bit.ly/4F8edd/">http://bit.ly/4F8edd/</a></p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/279884880http://ryantwomey.com/post/279884880Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:33:12 -0500<p>Sorry to see Lowell go. It’ll be cool to watch him at 1st in Texas though. <a href="http://bit.ly/4XcKnZ">http://bit.ly/4XcKnZ</a> #redsox</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/277755142http://ryantwomey.com/post/277755142Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:57:19 -0500<p>Chrome for the Mac is nice but I don’t like using something that’s an afterthought and crippled (no extensions).</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/275002459http://ryantwomey.com/post/275002459Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:09:38 -0500<p>Trying out Chrome for the Mac. It’ll take a lot for me to switch from Safari though.</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/274890690http://ryantwomey.com/post/274890690Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:06:23 -0500<p>OH: The hardest kind of person to retrain (ie switch courses) is the Ph.D.</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/274013078http://ryantwomey.com/post/274013078Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:32:14 -0500<p>RT @TUAW AT&T offers app so you can report crappy service. Huh? <a href="http://bit.ly/5qZ3hX">http://bit.ly/5qZ3hX</a> [post]</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/273574812http://ryantwomey.com/post/273574812Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:54:48 -0500<p>What’s up with $AAPL? Down some 12+ points in the last week.</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/273389773http://ryantwomey.com/post/273389773Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:31:53 -0500<p>Just found a neat trick in photoshop: command click a layer’s icon in the Layers screen to create a selection of it. Great for masks.</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/270685460http://ryantwomey.com/post/270685460Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:22:25 -0500<p>RT @engadget FusionGarage plans media event to tell its side of the CrunchPad story <a href="http://bit.ly/5C9qTw">http://bit.ly/5C9qTw</a></p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/269341248http://ryantwomey.com/post/269341248Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:50:44 -0500<p>RT @qrush How the… http://to./</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/267881035http://ryantwomey.com/post/267881035Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:47:31 -0500<p>RT @joefiorini here’s how http://to./ was done <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974148.">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974148.</a> pretty neat. (via @ryanbriones)</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/267881030http://ryantwomey.com/post/267881030Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:47:31 -0500<p>Too bad the formatting for that previous entry got all screwed up.  Check out the link to really get a good idea for what’s going on.  The explanation behind that graph is fascinating.</p>http://ryantwomey.com/post/265050931http://ryantwomey.com/post/265050931Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:49:08 -0500