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.

Headed to WordCamp New York City

Posted on 14 Oct 2010 by Matt

It’s that time of the year again and my favorite WordCamp is about to begin. Last year I made the trip to WordCamp NYC and spoke in two sessions. I had an immense amount of fun last year, and even … Continue reading →

Posted in Locations, New York, New York City, Talks, US, WordCamp, WordPress | 1 Comment

WordPress One Liner to Customize Author Permalink Redeux

Posted on 06 Oct 2010 by Matt

Nearly 2 years ago I wrote a one liner for someone in the WordPress IRC channel to change the author permalink structure. At the time I had not taken the time to really understand WP_Rewrite and as such didn’t understand … Continue reading →

Posted in Code, One Liner, PHP, Snippet, WordPress | Leave a comment

WordPress Metric Comparison of 2.9.2 and 3.0

Posted on 04 Jul 2010 by Matt

Some times I like to look at metrics. Because I am bored? Probably. Without metrics how can really compare things. In any case I wanted to see the difference in the number of queries, generation time and peak memory usage … Continue reading →

Posted in Code, CoolStuff, Fun, PHP, WordPress | 8 Comments

Using MySQL Sockets in the WordPress wp-config.php

Posted on 30 Jun 2010 by Matt

Recently I have been getting a lot of questions about how to use a MySQL socket in place of the DB_HOST constant for WordPress in the WordPress IRC channel. Fortunately this is pretty easy, unfortunately if you are using the … Continue reading →

Posted in CoolStuff, HowTo, WordPress | 3 Comments

Detect wp_head and wp_footer from a Plugin

Posted on 25 Apr 2010 by Matt

Normally I start these posts with “Every so often someone asks a question in the WordPress IRC channel that sparks my interest”, however today, to my great surprise someone actually caught my attention on the wp-hackers mailing list. For those … Continue reading →

Posted in CoolStuff, Fun, HowTo, PHP, Plugins, Questions, Uncategorized, WordPress | 7 Comments