Hi there! I’m Matt Colyer, a entrepreneur and technical product leader based in Redwood City, CA.

JRuby and Nokogiri

One of my goals this year for smartermeter is to make it usable on Windows. There are several ways to accomplish this but I chose to use JRuby and Swing (wit...

Brighter Planet Fellowship

So I was fortunate enough to be selected to become a Brighter Planet fellow for my work on smartermeter. Brighter Planet is a company that is committed to d...

PGE and Google Power Meter

So building on my smarterproject, Andrew Potter has released pge-to-google-powermeter, which takes the PG&E data and uploads it to Google Power meter. Th...

WebSockets & Stomp, the Real Realtime Web

So with HTML5 advancing and browsers starting to ship with WebSockets (Chrome 4+, Opera 10.60, Safari 5 and soon Firefox 4) it’s time to start thinking about...

Comcast IPV6

I got my invite to Comcast’s IPV6 trial today. I’ll be interested to see how they plan on handling dual v6/v4 stacks and whether they will forgo NATing compl...

libimobiledevice 1.0 & Transition

I started libiphone (which is now called imobiledevice) back in 2007 because I wanted to sync the contacts on my iPhone with my laptop. Since that time a tre...