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About Matt

posted 2005.09.16 Fri

I was born and raised in Utah. I began university studies in Utah and finished at Stanford with a degree in Computer Science. Since graduating from school I have been working for various startups in the Bay Area. In 2006 I relocated to Utah, but have continued to work in the Bay Area.

Current interests include characteristics of successful open source projects, drivers of innovation in open source, open source on the desktop, web technologies, python, and new bleeding edge technologies. This is the main focus of this blog. Semi normal interests include ultimate, biking, backpacking and teaching myself a few chords. Topics such as these may occasionally appear. Feel free to spam my gmail account using matthewharrison .

Panela, for those who didn't google it, is a drink in Colombia, where I lived for two years.

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1. Trish left...
2005.10.14 Fri 10:29 am

Just a point of possible interest. In neighboring Ecuador, "panela" is called "canela", but it's the same, nasty stuff.


2. Matt left...
2005.10.17 Mon 10:24 am

Hmmm, what do they call cinnamon there? I imagine a pure cinnamon drink would be pretty nasty ;)


3. Fernando left...
2006.02.02 Thu 10:11 pm :: http://ipython.scipy.org

Well, technically the drink is 'agua de panela' (panela water), while 'panela' alone being the block of unprocessed sugar-cane syrup. You break a chunk of it, toss it in boiling water, and there you have 'aguapanela' as it's typically called. Most people will put a lot of lemon in it for flavor.

Yes, I'm Colombian :) Though I happen not to like the stuf at all, it saved my butt once on a week-long backpack around the Sierra del Cocuy, where we brought WAY too little food. We pretty much survived on aguapanela for the last few days, so I won't badmouth the thing too much...


4. David Podger left...
2007.01.21 Sun 2:20 am

I noticed a script you wrote to convert HTML into a MochiDOM function. Do you know of one that will convert HTML into a valid string parameter to pass to an innerHTML function?

Thanks in advance

David

podgerd@iinet.net.au


5. Angel Leon left...
2007.08.13 Mon 8:36 am :: http://www.gubatron.com

Hi Matt,

  • we're using your jsonrpclib code on our application, it's a commercial application. We'd like to know under what license this code exists. we've had to modify it a little bit to make it work with Java-JSONRPC