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About Me
My name is Matthew Gertner and I’m the Chief Technology Officer of AllPeers. I’m a Brit by birth, an American by upbringing and a European by choice, having spent the last 15 years living in Paris, Hamburg and Prague (where I now reside). I have degrees in Computer Science and Linguistics and a strong interest in understanding the inner workings of the human mind and how to emulate wetware using software. In my professional persona I’m first and foremost a software developer, mainly in C++ although I’ve written some large applications in Java and C#. Occasionally I’m also forced to interact with other people. When I’m not working I’m an avid cook and a dangerously obsessive player of backgammon and golf.
About This Blog
The World Wide Web is at a crossroads. There’s something exciting going on, and people are getting all worked up over blogs, wikis, social networks, folksonomy, P2P, RSS, micropayments and extensible browsers. But right now each of these technologies represents an island of functionality, with little to tie them together. As we discover how to integrate them into a coherent whole, a new web will emerge: a semantic, writable, customizable web.
The main purpose of this blog is to explore these emerging technologies, examining their strengths and weakness and how people are using, abusing and hacking them. A secondary goal is more personal. I try to use as much social software as possible in order to get a better feeling for the nitty gritty of current offerings. Not just to play with them, but to integrate them into my daily routine. Blogging is certainly at the core of whatever the new web is going to end up looking like, so it’s important for me to be an active blogger in order to gain and maintain a deeper understanding of what blogging’s all about. As long as I’m learning something from this experience, I’ll keep on writing. If someone out there is reading, that’s a nice bonus.
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Comment by Murty — 11/17/2005 @ 6:21 am
“…a strong interest in understanding the inner workings of the human mind…”
“Occasionally I’m also forced to interact with other people.”
Odd how those two traits always go together, no?
Comment by Dissent — 1/2/2006 @ 9:41 pm
I’m a little disappointed that Guilford, CT doesn’t figure prominently in your bio. I guess Guilford is not quite as glamorous as Paris, but certainly it should give Hamburg a run for the money.
Comment by Paul Duncan — 3/7/2006 @ 10:30 pm
I’ll tell you what, when Guilford develops a red-light district as thriving as the one in Hamburg, I’ll mention it prominently in my bio.
Comment by Matt — 3/25/2006 @ 11:02 am
[…] Back in January, Matt @ AllPeers sent me a pointer to his unit test harness, foxunit. I finally got around to playing with it the other day, and I wrote a small set of simple unit tests for the sample extension. I even created a screenshot of the run results. […]
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[…] Back in January, Matt @ AllPeers sent me a pointer to his unit test harness, foxunit. I finally got around to playing with it the other day, and I wrote a small set of simple unit tests for the sample extension. I even created a screenshot of the run results. […]
Pingback by » David Liebreich: Unit Tests for Extensions - Mozilla News — 4/19/2006 @ 11:55 pm
I really like you’re idea of using Firefox to do a P2P share. I also like the site lay out and the content, however I have one gripe. There is no contact any of you guys (that I found) or way to get help with a problem. Thats all, thanks a lot.
Comment by Freddy — 6/16/2006 @ 2:19 am
I had a question about all peers and didnt know where to put it so here goes…Does it work with Flock?
There it is not a big one but important to me.
Erik
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Comment by matthew — 1/9/2007 @ 11:43 pm
Matt:
When are you going to come to Vancouver? Hehe…
Bettina says hi. BTW - Arofan has a kid now (Calum) and is doing great as a dad.
I never got my Allpeers beta account.
Duane
Comment by Duane Nickull — 3/23/2007 @ 6:00 pm
Matthew: I am doing genealogy research into my Gertner roots (Johann Gertner immigrated to New York from Bavaria in 1843) and ocassionally pester other Gertners to find out if they have info on their antecedents that may tie into my family. The Gertner spelling is really a fairly small group with only aboput 3000 families world-wide. Best regards, R. Clark Gertner
Comment by Clark Gertner — 4/14/2007 @ 10:20 pm
I like your blog.
Comment by Nancy — 7/30/2007 @ 9:57 pm
[…] Matt Gertner, AllPeers CTO and one of the original proponents of Mozpad, comments on the release: “many people have cited Komodo as a potential starting point for an IDE tailored to the Mozilla platform “if only it were open source”, this could be a big step towards my long-awaited Dream Firefox IDE, referring to a previous blog post in which he wished for a tool for Firefox development equivalent to Eclipse, another open source software development environment. […]
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[…] decided to have a chat with Matthew Gertner, Chief Technology Officer at AllPeers who - like many others - uses the BitTorrent extension to get […]
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[…] diskusi o inovacích v českém prostředí. Jediným inovátorem byl mezi diskutujícími Matthew Gertner z AllPeers. Připomněl prozatím nejúspěšnější český start-up Netbeans Romana Staňka a […]
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