About

HeadshotMatthew Batchelder

  • Designer
  • Database Architect
  • Web Application Engineer
  • Blogger
  • Gamer
  • Geek


Professional

Matthew Batchelder lives a Web Application Engineer’s life; his skills in development range from database design to server-side application development, from graphic design to interface design. He eats, drinks, and sleeps code - primarily PHP and Javascript. In addition to his code-monkey side, Matthew has been a presenter at SungardHE Summit, has taught and is a guest speaker in Plymouth State University computer science courses, and is an IT project manager at PSU.

Outside of Plymouth State University, Matthew is the co-founder of MasterWish, member of the Taller Buildings think tank, and development consultant.

Personal

Matthew Batchelder
Much like his work life, Matthew codes for fun. His professional career and personal passtimes have merged, birthing a number of small Web Application side projects (as well as some WordPress plugins!). Beyond coding, Matthew hikes, plays racquetball, spends time with his wife, and lives a geekly life.

Through his blogs BorkWeb and Uber-Geeks, Matthew exposes his professional, geeky, and random tidbits of knowledge.

BorkWeb

This blog is Matthew’s first and most successful blog. The topics most prevalent in this blog are:

  • Coding
    • PHP
    • Javascript
    • Ajax
  • Gaming
  • Humor
  • Tech
  • The Social Web

Uber-Geeks

This multi-author blog/forum site was born from the need of Matthew and his friends to have a web-based meeting/planning/gaming presence that is more centralized and convenient than picking up the phone. Uber-Geeks has gone through a number of revisions and its most recent form is that of a Drupal community site. The topics on this blog are typically:

  • Console Gaming
  • Humor
  • PC Gaming
  • Role-Playing (Pen and Paper)
  • Tech