Aarrgghh!!

About

Terrence Ryan

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Professional

I started working at Wharton right out of college in 1999. I've bounced from job to job during my time here. I started as desktop support, and moved into systems administration until I settled on web development as where I wanted to be.

Currently I'm an I.T. Director working for Knowledge@Wharton.

Additionally, I am the lead developer for ExportsReports.com, a site that allows users to export their Basecamp projects to PDF.

For a more detailed view of my professional experience, please feel free to view my resume.

In my spare time these days, I volunteer to do web development work for the occasional Congressional campaign. Want to know which ones? Drop me a line. Of course I also do freelance consuting. If you're interested, please feel free to drop me a line.

Personal

I was born in Camden, New Jersey and grew up in Southern New Jersey in the media sphere of Philadephia. After that I went to twelve years of Catholic School, and ran screaming to the University of Pennsylvania. While there I joined Kappa Alpha (a frat), got a psych degree (worthless), and got a job with the Wharton School (in an unrelated field).

Currently I live with my girlfriend fiancée wife, Janice Lee Ryan, and my son Jack, in a condo in the Center City/Fairmount section of Philadelphia.

Site

Technology

Arrgghh!! is mainly written using Cold Fusion MX 8, CSS and HTML. The blog portion is powered by Movable Type with an Active Perl backend.

Host

This website is part of the Numtopia site. It's hosted by Yo Host who seem to be doing a good job so far.

Reason

There are three main reasons for the site.

  1. I work in Information Technology. By law I must have a website.
  2. I'd like to fool around with new technology. (I learned PHP.)
  3. I want to displace this guy as the number one Google result for my name.

Why Aarrgghh!!?

Aarrgghh!! isn't just a scream. It's an inappropriately intense scream. I am highly entertained by inapproriate intensity, so hence the name.

What's with that little guy?

Aarrgghh Mascot I won't lie, I stole this guy from the cover of a book entitled Depraved and Insulting English. Which I highly reccomend. I think he embodies the phrase "inapproriate intensity." So he seemed the perfect mascot.