Me

My name is Matthew Haney. I live with my wife Mary, little Harry and littler James in a sleepy seaside town in North Kent, England. At work I’m a Developer for PDMS Ltd., creating and supporting web applications using C#. I am also a Sun Certified Java Programmer, and in a previous life I developed, maintained and supported integration solutions using an array of technologies, including J2EE (IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic), Informatica PowerCenter and PowerAnalyzer.

Contact

• My main email address is matt (at) fretnoise (dot) com
• My MSN ID is matt (underscore) haney (at) hotmail (dot) co (dot) uk
• My XBox360 Live Gamertag is ‘fretnoise’

(Photo by Ant)

Fretnoise.com

Fretnoise.com is my personal website. Sometime back in the mists of time I had big plans for the domain name; I wanted to write a free community-based live music promotion site, where bands, venues and fans could let the world know about local live music, along the lines of gig-guide.co.uk and/or ents24.com. Of course my version would have looked better, performed better, and eventually taken off and made me rich… but I never got round to it. Instead, I started using the name as an online moniker, and the site slowly metamorphised into the blog you see today.

In the old days the site was purely an outlet whilst I learnt PHP, with a hand-rolled weblog and gallery system. Then I found myself continually adding features I’d seen on other more sophisticated blogs, and eventually I bit the bullet and installed Movable Type. Unfortunately, MT soon went all commercial and started charging license fees (gasp!), and so I switched to WordPress. In April 2007 I moved the site from a small home server (affectionately known as ‘Greebo’) to a proper hosted server provided through my brother’s firm, 2G Creative. For the moment I’m flirting with a couple of gallery solutions, but I’ve yet to find one as simple, complex and customizable as I need. As a stop-gap, my new photos are being hosted on my picasaweb site.