MatSays : ramblings of a grumpy developer-designer-teacher
About
My name is Mat Rosa and I have been an instructor at Art Institute of Las Vegas since 2006 and at University of Nevada, Las Vegas since 2009. I teach undergraduate courses focused on web programming, security and usability. I operate this site to help provide my students with class notes and instructional materials to support the classroom activities.
I have an undergraduate degree in Hotel Administration from Cornell University. I spent 6 years in the hospitality industry as a Financial Controller with Holiday Inns Worldwide and Morgans Hotel Group. I entered the technology field in 1994 co-founding a technology incubator in NYC followed by several years of consulting on Internet presence, identity and strategies.
I am currently the Director of Research & Creative Services for webcasting & DRM services provider iStreamPlanet where I oversee application architecture, product development, and new technologies research.
I am currently working on a graduate (and hopefully post-graduate) degree at the UNLV School of Informatics with a cognate/field-of-study in Human Computer Interactions.
Contact me at mat [at] matsays [dot] com.
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Quick Lists
- Art Institute of Las Vegas
- IMD123: Program Logic »
- IMD213: Intermediate Scripting (SP09) »
- IMD223: Advanced Scripting (SU08) »
- IMD322: Dynamic Design (WI09) »
- IMD325: User Centered Design (WI09) »
- IMD335: Usability Testing (SP09) »
- IMD335: Usability Testing (SP08) »
- IMD345: UCD Integration (SU08) »
- IMD375: Databases (FA09) »
- IMD402: Server-Side Technology (WI09) »
- Independent Studies (SU08) »
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- INF400: Web Security »
- INF340: Web Design Concepts »
- IMD213: Intermediate Scripting
- IMD322: Dynamic Design
- IMD335: Usability Testing
- Save UNLV Informatics
- Why Can't Programmers Program?
- Designer, Developer or Deity?
- Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
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Meanwhile on Flickr ... [Web Design Pool]
Reading Recommendations
- Art & Science of CSS by Jonathan Snook, Steve Smith, Jina Bolton, Cameron Adams & David Johnson
- Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank
- The Long Tail (updated version) by Jason Baeird
- Beautiful Web Design by Chris Anderson
- The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It
by Jonathan Zittrain - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
by Nikolai Gogol - We The Living by Ayn Rand
- Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger
- Danny The Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
- Successful Freelancing by Miles Burke
- PHP for the World Wide Web by Larry Ullman
- Advanced PHP for the World Wide Web
by Larry Ullman


















