I've been reading this new book, AJAX Patterns by Michael Mahemoff. Now I'm a seasoned developer and javascript is like a second language for me, but I haven't been keeping on abreast of all the nifty techniques flinging out of the AJAX world in the past 15 months. Within the first ...

Following the example of Werty who was copying Greywolf, I too will post a list of people I'd like to meet at Pubcon. Boston was my first Pubcon - while there, I tried to meet people I had corresponded with on Webmasterworld, but many were not in attendance. ...

My consumer advice for October: Don't Buy From RONA.

I should mention that RONA is the closest hardware store to my home, and for a while even though I disliked the store and their service was abhorrent, it was a quick place to get an odd bit of hardware when I needed ...

flash cartooning as a medium produces its first true masterpiece. This is the funniest animated series since Weebl and Bob*. Retarded Animal Babies * in case you were under a rock in 2002: Weebl and Bob - "pie"

Today, after the fire was out (more on that later), I packed up my grumpy family (both wife and child were tired and sniffly) and we all went to the pumpkin farm. What a great time! We picked out about a dozen pumpkins and gourds of all sorts, had some hot ...

Today I added a whole bunch of cafepress and zazzle products with my site logotype on it.

Buttons, magnets, t-shirts, a bbq apron, and even a thong.

Get your ianring.com merch today! It's on the home page for now.

Today I quit my job working as a bouncer at a speakeasy.

I never really worked as a bouncer. It was a joke I've shared with my daughter for the past 2 years.

How would I explain to a cute little 2 year old girl what I do for a living? Would she, whose ...

Today I was consulted to debug a rather nasty bit of AJAX - a paging script that lives within Community Server. The problem appeared spontaneously on a bunch of sites where we applied a new ISAPI Rewrite rule: one that finds any instances of "default.aspx" and scrubs them out via redirection.

Why ...

So, today I was working on a bunch of beta stuff for a Yahoo API that's coming out, and found an XML well-formedness error in their feed. I hate to seem uppity, but it felt good! In your FACE, Yahoo!It's like, there's Yahoo this huge megalithic company and there's me, and ...