More about Matt

I am the Associate Director for Housing Operations at Barnard College. I came to New York City in July 2003 to work at The New School after previously working at Truman State University.

I live in Morningside Heights with my partner Jeff.

I go to the theatre & collect cast recordings, sing in a men’s chorus, code with PHP & MySQL, and watch too many shows on my TiVo.

Education:
IU School of Library Science (SpLIS ’00, MLS ’99)
DePauw University (BA in Computer Science and Communication ’97)
Vestavia Hills High School (’93).

More about the site

I’ve had a blog for over ten years. It started out as a way for me to practice programming in Perl and later PHP, but I’ve made a lot of friends along the way and I have become (just barely) a better writer.

Version 1 of my blog was powered by a collection of Perl scripts using flat text files. Later, I created my own custom PHP/MySQL content management system. When I moved to New York (and had to give up hosting the site off my linux box), I switched to MovableType. In the summer of 2005, I migrated to WordPress, an open-source PHP/MySQL CMS.

The site is hosted at Hostgator.  I use EditPad and WebDrive to write & edit all my code.