SGNLS

I suppose if you're here already, more specifically on this page in particular, then it stands to reason you have some reason for being here; either you know me, you've followed a link from somewhere equally brilliant or you just happened to stumble upon me via a lucky Google search term...

Either way, welcome to SGNLS. This is my own little slice of the intertweb pizza, as it were. Here I will chart my random thoughts, guides or various pictures and links important or valuable to myself or my friendship circle. I am also working on getting my Portfolio completed so that people, or potential 'clients', can see the sort of website and graphic work that I do. It'll also be a good excuse for me to see what exactly I've been upto over the last few years!

This site itself has been 100% hand-coded from the ground up; all the PHP, XHTML and CSS (both of which are valid, save for the Webkit-esque complaints due to the restricted 'official' current CSS syntax) has been written by myself in a variety of text editors; Nano, gEdit and Notepad++ to name a few. Viewing the source CSS should give you an indication of the sort of code I write and how I do it.

Any imaging work has been done almost exclusively in GIMP with occassional dabbles in Photoshop, depending on the requirement.

The various streams currently running on the site (i.e. del.icio.us, Last.fm and Google Calendar) all use the same base script to pull raw data from any remote RSS / XML feed, which I have documented (and will improve).

Well, I am Matt and as explained, this is my corner of the internet. By day I am a Senior Administrator / Technician for a military contractor and I spend my days building, modding, rebooting and fixing as well as the occassional 'user re-alignment'.

In my spare time, I do much the same. Except I also play bass (and guitar) and go to many, many gigs. I enjoy the usual things really, and when I'm at home and not doing any of the above, you can find me claymore-ing the living Shatner out of people in Modern Warfare 2. On the 360, surprisingly (if you fancy a game; my gamertag should be obvious).

For those that are interested, a brief overview of my skill-set includes;

• UNIX (Linux, OS9/X)
• Windows 3.1, 9x & NT (NT4, 2000, XP)
• Windows Server 200x
• Active Directory Environments
• AS/400
• Virtualisation (VMware, XEN, QEMU)
• Network (DHCP, Firewall, NAT) Configuration
• PHP
• Bash
• MySQL
• (X)HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• MS/DOS
• GIMP
• Photoshop