Matt Gray

Facts

Yes, that’s me.

• Geek; Software Engineer for the web
• Technology Director, Clockwork Active Media Systems
• Sometimes photographer (see Flickr)
• Married to a lovely engineer
• Lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
• Avid backpacker; loves the Superior Hiking Trail

Tweets

Winterfest 2010 Roundup

Yesterday evening I attended Winterfest 2010, the annual beer tasting event presented by the Minnesota Craft Brewer’s Guild. Brewers from around the region compete for the Snowshoe award, based on a secret ballot submitted by the crowd. This year’s Winterfest was at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul.

I went along with several Clockwork friends. This was my first time at Winterfest—I normally stick to the Autumn Brew Review—but the result was the same: too many beers, too little time. I’m just glad I was able to hold on to my glass.

Find-as-You-Type Search in Google Chrome

I’ve mostly given up Firefox for daily web browsing in favor of Google Chrome. Chrome is fast, stable, and just enough for what I do—however, it lacks built-in, find-as-you-type search. Luckily, there’s an extension you can use, if you install the developer version of Chrome.

(Whenever possible, I avoid using the mouse. Keyboard shortcuts are much faster and don’t require a physical context switch.)

Feed Overflow

Today Dez informed me that his RSS reader was chock-full of my old posts. When I launched my new site, a technical difference between the old feed produced by my custom blog software (RSS 1.0) and the feed WordPress generates (RSS 2.0) caused all the posts in my feed to appear as new posts.

Sorry about that!