Author Archives: Matt

About Matt

IF YOU REALLY want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

In any case I am employed as a Senior Linux Systems Engineer at Rackspace in San Antonio, TX.

I spent the majority of my college years as an Astrophysics major specializing in black holes. When I got to my senior year and was studying 40 hours a week to stay on track I decided to bail and pursue an easier career.

I spend the majority of my time now contributing to WordPress, developing WordPress plugins, helping out in the WordPress IRC Channel, playing football (not American!), practicing Krav Maga, and last but not least, spending time with my Wife and Son.

Shadowbox JS Plugin Pulled from the WordPress.org Repository

Posted on 29 Dec 2011 by Matt

I was notified on December 28, 2011 that a complaint was made to the WordPress.org plugins repository team that the Shadowbox JS plugin contained non-GPL code (shadowbox.js).  This is correct, and I have known about it for some time, and … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Plugins, Shadowbox, WordPress | 2 Comments

WordPress Caching Comparisons Part 2

Posted on 06 Dec 2011 by Matt

This post has been on my mind for quite some time now, ever since I wrote Part 1 over 1 year ago. Part 1 only really addressed opcode and Object caching and didn’t really touch page caching. In this post … Continue reading →

Posted in Code, CoolStuff, HowTo, PHP, Technology, Uncategorized, WordPress | 3 Comments

“Mr. Jones”

Posted on 08 Feb 2011 by Matt

I’ve been debating launching a new theme on my site for some time. I could not decide if I wanted to write my own from scratch, hack another theme, or write a child theme. In the end I went with … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun, Music, News, Themes, WordPress | 4 Comments

WordPress Caching Comparisons Part 1

Posted on 22 Nov 2010 by Matt

For some time now I have been wanting to write an up to date XCache object cache plugin for WordPress. Around 4 years ago I did an opcode caching comparison between APC, XCache and eAccelerator. My results had shown that … Continue reading →

Posted in Code, CoolStuff, HowTo, PHP, Technology, WordPress | 9 Comments

Slides from my WordCamp NYC Talk

Posted on 19 Oct 2010 by Matt

This past weekend I spoke at WordCamp NYC about Building a High Performance WordPress Environment in a panel presentation with Scott Taylor The slides for my portion of the presentation can be found at SlideShare and…well…right here:

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