Matt Button

I recently migrated my mattbutton.com blog away from Wordpress hosting in favor of a static site generated by Hugo, hosted on Amazon S3.

I joined a Toastmasters public speaking club back in November 2016.

Hi, I’m Matt Button.

I spent two weeks in late August on the island of Koh Tao, which is located in the eastern Gulf of Thailand.

I flew out of Wellington on 20th of July, 2016, in the middle of a bitter winter, for a two week adventure around Japan (Tokyo -> Takayama -> Kanazawa -> Hiroshima -> Kyoto), followed by four weeks in Thailand (Bangkok -> Chiang Mai -> Koh Phangan -> Koh…

Whenever I travel, I keep my luggage as light as possible, traveling with carry-on only; everything fits inside a 38 litre backpack, usually with room to spare, and this trip was no exception.

When you want to visualize how a stock or portfolio has performed historically relative to the market as a whole, it is useful to create a comparison chart.

This article is written for the intermediate F# audience who has a basic familiarity of stock trading and technical analysis, and is intended to show the basics of implementing a backtesting system in F#.

When migrating a site from ASP.NET MVC 1 to ASP.NET MVC 2, you can generally follow the instructions in http://www.asp.net/whitepapers/what-is-new-in-aspnet-mvc#_TOC2, taking note of any breaking changes.

For the ASP.NET MVC default model binder to bind a list successfully, the list must be sequential with unbroken indices.

When you are maintaining multiple web apps across environments it can be difficult to keep track of which scripts need to be run to upgrade the database when it comes time to deploy.

This post is intended as a living document that will evolve and grow over time.

After installing Visual Studio 2012, I found that the open file dialog wasn’t being displayed.

Why would I want to use Mercurial or any other DVCS client with a Subversion repository?

If you are connecting to a SQL server with the SQL profiler and none of your templates are showing up, compare the versions of the SQL profiler you are running and the version of SQL server that you’re connecting to; there is likely a version mismatch.

When running a page with HTTPS, you’ll want to also load any external resources such as javascript via HTTPS.

In our project, we’re sub classing multiple domain classes from a single Reference Data table – i.e.

The current project I’m working on involves a search page with multiple submit buttons in a single HTML form.

We used to use Balsamiq for mockups, however Expression Blend 4 and Sketchflow has some compelling features.

I was having an issue where after pushing my changes to bitbucket, the changesets listed a different user as having pushed the files.