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 as at The New School after previously working at Truman State University.

I live in the Upper West Side / Morningside Heights with my partner Jeff.

I love going to the theatre & collecting cast recordings, singing in a men’s chorus, coding in PHP & PERL, and being a slave to 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 been keeping this weblog for over nine 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.

This weblog was first 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 powered by a Virtual Private Server at Tektonic.net. I use EditPad and WebDrive to write & edit all my code.