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Ryan is a Christian, the lucky husband of an amazing wife, and proud father of an incredibly funny 4+ year old boy and a gorgeous infant girl. A native redneck from East Texas now living in Dallas, he co-founded the MODx project and acts as project manager, cheerleader, strategist and marketeer. Liz finally caved in to repeated lobbying for a 360 at the end of 2007, a victorious culmination to a multi-year effort. Rock Band is worth it.

  Ryan Thrash on 09-Dec-06Sumo "Omni" Lounge Chair 

Can a bean bag chair actually be cool? Without question. And as it turns out, it can also arguably be the most comfortable spot you'll sit. Seriously.

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  Ryan Thrash on 19-Oct-06CSS Hacking !important 

For the CSS-erati out there, hacks are still sometimes necessary – despite your best efforts. Here's one that hurts less.

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  Ryan Thrash on 23-May-06MODx: Looking Back. Looking Foward. 

Many people want a quick overview of MODx. This post provides a historical perspective and small peek at the future.

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  Ryan Thrash on 06-Feb-06Playing the Silktide SiteScore Game 

Silktide SiteScore for this websiteSilktide Sitescore provides a pretty decent if not objective way to judge your site. Address the areas where it rates you low and you might just wind up with not only the satisfaction of a better score, but a better site over all.

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  Ryan Thrash on 02-Feb-06Man Sues Apple over iPod-induced Hearing Loss 

appleIt's a sad day when Apple is sued because some moron doesn't know not to crank the volume. I really do understand now why we have the Darwin Awards...

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  Ryan Thrash on 18-Jan-06Simple Rounded Corner CSS Boxes 

In 2003, I invented an interesting CSS technique to builded semantic, rounded corner boxes using CSS. What that translates into non-geek-speak is that you get pretty boxes with no extra bulky XHTML markup. Now I've done it one better and I hope you agree!

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  Ryan Thrash on 17-Jan-06Safari Web Inspector 

For Safari-using web developers though, there's a super cool thing from Apple: the new Web Inspector found in the latest nightly build of Safari. Think an Apple-fied DOM inspector from the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox.

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  Ryan Thrash on 10-Jan-06Building a New MODxCMS.com 

MODx really blows me away. I was reminded of this yet again recently while working on the new site template with Zi. I'm really lucky: the amazing team on this project keeps cranking out killer stuff, and it's fast approaching making building sites almost effortless. (Except for the CSS side ... but we have IE6 to blame for that ... )

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