tim-ryan.com

My name is Tim Ryan. I'm a programmer, web designer, and artist. Being a student (and broke), I'm up for any and all kinds of commission work. Interested? Please email me at tim@tim-ryan.com.

Experience: (X)HTML, PHP 4/5, JavaScript/AJAX, Flash/ActionScript/Flex, F8 Assembly.

• July 6, 2008 @ 1:50 AM

  Chowdah 0.8.5 has been released. It includes two sample applications I whipped up for the occasion, Server (which replicates the functionality of your web server, but... worse), and Quiki: the Littlest Wiki. Neither of these are particularly RESTful, but I've started using build scripts, so it makes me feel important anyway.

  It's amazing what you can (and can't) accomplish when you don't actually have a job to speak of.

• June 26, 2008 @ 8:11 AM

  I've released the first version of my Processing interpreter for Flash. Basically on par with John Resig's Processing.js, except not using nearly as cool technology. (On the plus side, I'm a virtual expert now in writing parsers for languages-that-almost-look-like-JavaScript-but-not-quite.) You can try it out in the test suite.

  With any luck, this will be able to supersede Disarm in its entirety—or at the very least, it's terrible proprietaritude.

  I saw Dave Matthews Band live last night. We got to the show an hour and a half late; it was a two hour wait to get out of the parking lot after the show; but hearing Two Step played with electric guitar made up for it in spades.

• April 24, 2008 @ 3:03 PM

  So I put up posters saying "I CAN HAS UR VOTE?" and "DO A BARRELL ROLL!", Rickrolled and made the entire school lose the game in my speech, and still managed to win the om-nom-nomination for Student Council.

  I'm pretty content with my high school career.

• February 21, 2008 @ 12:56 AM

  Two months and a week! Regular updates are totally facticious.

  I've released the first version of Chowdah (v0.8). I've spent nearly three years (next month) developing it, so I hope you'll enjoy the pittance I have to show for my efforts.

• December 14, 2007 @ 1:43 AM

  I'm fancying a snow day tomorrow?

  I've set up links to creative works on the left. My next goal, to create the content to fill them!

• November 30, 2007 @ 5:58 PM

  I won't lie, I'm sick of my school's Administration and I don't care who knows it.

• October 21, 2007 @ 3:37 PM

  Progress is being made, slowly.

  There's about a year's worth of photos I need to put online. Eventually.

• October 6, 2007 @ 11:28 AM

  The fact that I can think of nothing to put on this site is more of a reflection of its owner than I care to admit.

• September 9, 2007 @ 10:35 AM

  I've made available all my schoolwork from grade 10 at http://tim-ryan.com/edu/. If you can make use of it, feel free; it's not doing me any good sitting on my hard drive.

  It's only fitting that one of the best summers of my life will be succeeded by the worst school year of my life.

  And I'm dying for it to start snowing.

• July 5, 2007 @ 4:59 PM

  No, of course I didn't redesign the site.

  You must be seeing things.

• June 2, 2007 @ 9:54 AM

  I realize, it's hardly economical to be throwing photos and videos onto YouTube and Flickr simultaneously, when Facebook allows me to do all that and more. Basically, this site has been all but superseded by my Facebook profile.

  Where that leaves this site, I don't know, since at the moment it's on par with a low-quality blog. I know what the right tool for the job is, but. It just seems like a waste.

  They say that summer vacation's started, but it doesn't feel that way.

• May 12, 2007 @ 10:36 AM

  So, I made it out of the AP test alive. I'm expecting a score of about 3±2.

  Meanwhile, my grades seem to be dropping in Spanish and AP Euro. It sounds crazy, but I think I might actually start working harder towards the end of the year, if it's not too late to still get Headmaster's. (And start exercising. ...yeah, this isn't gonna last.)

  But right now, I'm just glad I can sleep again. With the test out of the way, I guess I can actually focus on having a life now.

  PS: This comic is love. http://www.threepanelsoul.com/

• May 5, 2007 @ 11:59 PM

  I realize the futility of updating this page in the long run, since what I write is unremarkable and uninteresting.

  Then again, so am I, and it evens out.

  Plus, I find such a blank page charming. I had intended to do a massive redesign, but I'm half-considering scrapping it for the sake of simplicity. (read: I'm lazy as hell.)

  Good news on that front, though. Clue went swimmingly, best play I've ever done (or at least on par with Ollie's), and I can now say my favorite movie is also my favorite play. Then, the month-overdue newspaper is set to be shipped Tuesday, once I finish it. All that leaves is the AP Euro test come Friday, and my hell will finally have frozen over.

  I won't know what to do with myself.

• April 25, 2007 @ 2:18 AM

  I saw a Guster concert this past Saturday, also featuring The Format and Bob Saget. I think he was as surprised he was there as we were.

  I have a double lab to do that I haven't even started yet.

  I want chips.