About me

Hi, my name is Mat Mannion and I am Service Owner for the Web Publishing (Development) team in IT Services at the University of Warwick. I've been here since August 2005 and have worked on a number of projects, notably Warwick Blogs, Warwick Search and SiteBuilder. Before I worked at the University, I was a student here, and got my MEng in Computer Science here, specialising in robotics, artificial intelligence and fault-tolerant systems in my projects.

I have also in the past owned my own web development company and developed, along with two colleagues, the website and Management Information System for a luxury London-based minicab firm.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now, they have two problems.

In my diary...

Contact details

Email: M dot Mannion at warwick dot ac dot uk

Instant Message: M.Mannion@warwick.ac.uk

Phone: 024 765 74433

Resources

Sitebuilder

SiteBuilder Calendars - A JavaScript class that provides functions to fetch and manipulate SiteBuilder calendars. Note: Due to cross-domain scripting restrictions, this will only work on webpages on www2.warwick.ac.uk
Schedule tags - Magic tags that can be used in SiteBuilder pages to replicate the (obsolete) Javascript function above.
Add to my calendar - A greasemonkey script to add an "Add to my Calendar" link to calendar items
Image rotator - A Javascript function to fetch a set of images from under a page and display a rotating slideshow (the "Ken Burns effect")

Warwick Blogs

Formatting stripper - A greasemonkey script to remove excessive and annoying formatting from entries on Warwick Blogs