Articles by Matt Perry
Matt Perry was Grist's Technology Director and chief nerd from 2008 to 2012.
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The News Smashup: 4 examples of a news app sub-genre
After attending one of Twitter’s developer teatimes here in Seattle and having various other Twitter API related experiences recently (more on that soon), it’s becoming a bit obvious that there’s a rapidly-emerging subspecies of news app coming into being. This sort of app can trace its origins pretty directly to pre-Twitter sites like Techmeme and […]
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Otto, Nacin at Grist
Last week we were lucky enough to play host to two members of the WordPress core team last week here in our offices in Seattle. If you ever get the chance to work with/learn from Otto (@otto42) and Nacin (@nacin) … well just do it! Grist would not be what it is without the contributions […]
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Please try IronCache — a memcached extension for ExpressionEngine
IronCache is an extension for the ExpressionEngine CMS that boosts performance for high traffic sites by using memcached
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Grist Hackathon Hangover Report
We just completed our first news hackathon afternoon. The purpose of the event was to give everyone at Grist the opportunity to try out new tools and ways of working together. The specific challenge of the day: given 4 hours, tell a relevant story with data. That’s it! No more guidance was given (well OK […]
