Postgres, performance, and 25 years of writing from Matty Stratton.https://www.mattstratton.com/https://www.mattstratton.com/post/take-care-of-yourself/https://www.mattstratton.com/post/take-care-of-yourself/Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:30:40 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/post/getting-started-with-chef/https://www.mattstratton.com/post/getting-started-with-chef/Chef is super cool. The point of this post is to walk you through the basics of getting started solving a problem with Chef.Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:35:31 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/help-mary-help-families-in-need/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/help-mary-help-families-in-need/My roommate, Mary, has "adopted" two families in need this Christmas. Last year she adopted three families, and your donations and generosity made it happen. She could use YOUR help in making the holidays amazing for these families.Sat, 10 Oct 2015 05:01:49 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/tech/starting-a-tech-podcast/https://www.mattstratton.com/tech/starting-a-tech-podcast/Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:04:56 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/tech/devops/https://www.mattstratton.com/tech/devops/Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:55:51 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/help-families-christmas/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/help-families-christmas/My roommate, Mary, has "adopted" not one, not two, but THREE families in need this Christmas. Last year she adopted a family of six, and had such an amazing experience she decided to up it by a factor of three. She could use YOUR help in making the holidays amazing for these families.Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:23:26 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/devops/hipster-devops-happens-to-the-best-of-us/https://www.mattstratton.com/devops/hipster-devops-happens-to-the-best-of-us/Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:32:18 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/happy-birthday-sophia-margaret/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/happy-birthday-sophia-margaret/Happy first birthday to the best little Fifi-bunny ever.Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:30:48 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/matts-top-10-reasons-internet-friends-are-better-than-real-friends/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/matts-top-10-reasons-internet-friends-are-better-than-real-friends/Everyone knows that having friend on the internet is awesome. Here are 10 reasons why.Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:48:40 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/the-internets/traces-of-identity-guest-post/https://www.mattstratton.com/the-internets/traces-of-identity-guest-post/My name is Ashley and I blog at Writing To Reach You. When I asked for opportunities to guest blog, Matt offered me some space here and asked, “how about the personal and emotional implications of leaving portions of yourself and your content in a disparate and incongruent network that is both ephemeral and everlasting?”Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:39:10 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/real-world/how-to-get-a-lot-of-blog-post-titles-in-24-hours/https://www.mattstratton.com/real-world/how-to-get-a-lot-of-blog-post-titles-in-24-hours/As you may recall, I am embarking on an experiment to crowd-sourced blog titles. I asked Twitter to suggest titles for blog posts using the hashtag #mattblog, and committed to writing a post for every title.Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:51:20 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/meta/the-great-blog-title-challenge-thing/https://www.mattstratton.com/meta/the-great-blog-title-challenge-thing/Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:47:11 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/tech/apartments-com-goes-hyper-v/https://www.mattstratton.com/tech/apartments-com-goes-hyper-v/If you follow me on Twitter, or are my friend on Facebook, you may have seen me posting links to various online articles about something called "Hyper-V". Basically, earlier this year, my team here at Apartments.com migrated our virtualization platform from VMWare to Microsoft's Hyper-V offering. Here's a listing of some of these articles.Wed, 02 May 2012 21:28:08 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/the-internets/chicagoans-to-follow-on-twitter/https://www.mattstratton.com/the-internets/chicagoans-to-follow-on-twitter/A completely subjective list of the eleven people from Chicago who you should follow on Twitter RIGHT NOW. Very little science or analytics were used to generate this list. Pizza bagels may have been involved.Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:47:43 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/hilarity/the-truth-about-sysadmins/https://www.mattstratton.com/hilarity/the-truth-about-sysadmins/There's a meme going around, and I decided to take my shot at spoofing it for system administrators.Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:32:41 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/tech/why-im-considering-ditching-thesis-for-my-own-custom-theme/https://www.mattstratton.com/tech/why-im-considering-ditching-thesis-for-my-own-custom-theme/Long-time readers of this blog will be aware that I have been a vocal supporter and proponent of the Thesis framework for WordPress for quite some time. This site runs on Thesis, and I am always keen to recommend it to others. That being said, I’ve recently been considering dropping Thesis from this blog and replacing it with my own custom theme.Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:00:54 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/matt-one-year-ago/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/matt-one-year-ago/Every year for my birthday, I compose an email to be sent to myself a year in the future. This is the email I composed one year ago.Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:38:11 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/vlogs/do-you-think-i-have-an-accent/https://www.mattstratton.com/vlogs/do-you-think-i-have-an-accent/There's a vlog meme running around, where people upload videos of themselves saying certain words or phrases, and then you, the viewer, identify the accent. So here's mine.Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:28:03 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/tech/ifttt-scripting-the-internet/https://www.mattstratton.com/tech/ifttt-scripting-the-internet/I'm pretty much in love with the service known as ifttt - "if this, then that". It's kind of like a scripting language for the Internet. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:10:28 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/tech-tips/speed-up-wordpress/https://www.mattstratton.com/tech-tips/speed-up-wordpress/Everyone wants their blog to load faster. One of the best ways to improve performance on self-hosted WordPress is using a combination of the W3 Total Cache plugin and a Content Delivery Network such as Amazon CloudFront. This post will walk you through the process, step by step, and have you serving up a speedier blog in no time!Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:14:40 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/tech-tips/merging-facebook-lists/https://www.mattstratton.com/tech-tips/merging-facebook-lists/If you have previously set up Facebook lists, but want to leverage the power of the new Close Friends and Acquaintances lists, it's fairly easy to merge your old Lists into the new. And I'll show you how to do it.Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:00:59 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/tech-tips/facebook-lists/https://www.mattstratton.com/tech-tips/facebook-lists/Facebook has released some major changes to how the Feed and Activity function. This post will explain how to make the new Facebook work FOR you, not AGAINST you.Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:52:51 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/welcome-to-the-world-sophia-margaret/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/welcome-to-the-world-sophia-margaret/Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:04:02 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/babywatch-2011/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/babywatch-2011/Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:59:32 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/skinny-legs-and-all/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/skinny-legs-and-all/Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:32:21 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/photos/old-photo/https://www.mattstratton.com/photos/old-photo/Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:05:58 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/friday-fun/the-first-female-doctor/https://www.mattstratton.com/friday-fun/the-first-female-doctor/During VEDA, my friend Kitty announced her goal of being the first female to play the eponymous character on Dr. Who. She expressed her desire in this video (link opens in a new window). Earlier today, my friends @Dutchface and @tomfromhr and I had a little bit of "back and forth" about this topic (starting with Tom comparing Ian's new suit to something the Doctor would wear). Since Kitty refuses to play on Twitter, I chose to post the conversation here for her enjoyment. And for yours. Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:14:47 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/a-letter-to-my-unborn-daughter/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/a-letter-to-my-unborn-daughter/September 9th is the due date of my unborn baby girl (who is currently nameless). My wife sent me a link to a list of 50 Rules for Dads of Daughters. Besides make me almost tear up at work, it got me to thinking. This is a letter to my little baby girl, on the day before she is supposed to be born.Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:29:35 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/the-internets/the-great-google-plus-experiment/https://www.mattstratton.com/the-internets/the-great-google-plus-experiment/I've been using Google Plus since the beginning of July. I'm a big fan of it and have decided to try to make it my main "social media" platform. To test this theory out, I am going to be taking a hiatus from Facebook for the rest of the month of September, using Google Plus for my social sharing. Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:37:07 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/thats-my-philosophy-marti/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/thats-my-philosophy-marti/Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:02:33 GMT