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Welcome!

Hi! I'm Ryan, a Milwaukee area web developer that specializes in Open Source languages and technologies. Primarily, I enjoy working in the LAMP stack, especially with PHP, but my abilities certainly do not end there. Aside from daily development work, I administrate a full spectrum of servers and technologies that help a small to medium sized business run efficiently.

Below, are some recent posts of mine I hope you might find useful.  I also have briefly documented some projects I have been (or currently am) working on, which can be found in my portfolio.

Cheers,
Ryan

Web design for developers

Web Deisgn for dummies developers

Last Edited: Mar 04, 2012


Thumbnail Image In this article, I will try to dispell the myth that many of us developers put on ourselves. "I can't design anything that looks good! I don't have that artistic talent that some people have." Will you be the next Van Gogh after reading this, yeah probably not. But we will get you on a path to improvement fast. The rest is left to ambition, practice and persistence.

P2V migration, a year later

Last Edited: Feb 17, 2012


Thumbnail Image It's been a year since I started out on a P2V migration at work. Getting everything up and running did take a solid week of work. Wiring, configuring, installing takes time off the clock, but it sure goes by fast. I wrote a brief writeup on my thoughts on virtualization a year after I started using it in production. Want to read more? Click below!

CodeWorks 2011:Madison

Thoughts on the event and its presentations

Last Edited: Dec 09, 2011


Thumbnail Image What a great event at the Goodman Community Center! We saw some excellent stuff from Adobe, most notably PhoneGap, a platform giving us an ability to develop a single codebase and deploy applications to multiple mobile platforms. We saw some fresh features coming in the next (second) beta release of Zend Framework 2. Talks also included, upcoming features in PHP 5.4, code refactoring and continuous integration. Last, REST best practices finished up the day.

Certainly, this was an information-packed day of presentations and a bit of social networking too. Both equally valuable to developers, I encourage you to visit next year! For more on the event, hit the read more button below...