Contracting

Woozalia Nicola Staddon Durham, NC

Top Skills

• software design, primarily web (see portfolio for some examples)
• Linux system administration, primarily LAMP in Ubuntu
• heavily into PHP7, with at least 5-10 k hours of coding time (best guess)
• fluent in SQL (especially MySQL)
• deeply familiar with MediaWiki
• documentation to any required level of detail
• have coded in: Gambas, Perl, Object Pascal (Lazarus / Borland Pascal), C++, Visual Basic, VBA, ASM86
• informal learner / autodidact (prefer to learn by doing)

Accomplishments

• web dev
  • 2018/06 - 2019/02 PaperDemon.com: back end (PHP/MySQL) fixing bugs and writing new features
  • via Swashbuckler Interactive:
    • 2014/09 NRE: data import from spreadsheet to Drupal/MySQL, database of locomotives and related parts, created admin area
    • 2013/11, 2014/01, 2014/03 Carbondale Tourism: back-end (PHP/MySQL/Drupal) for dynamic search feature
    • 2013/04-2013/05 NEW Corp / WorkAtHome: modifications to login, navigation (PHP)
    • 2012/11-2013/09 The Sash Company: lots of bugs fixed, features added (PHP/MySQL)
      • 2014/03 fixes to shipping-charge calculations
    • 2011/09-2011/11 Explosion Sportswear: SSL cert installation, mods & fixes to their shipping system (PHP/MySQL)
  • 2010/02 ResearchBuy: custom MediaWiki-based pay-for-content system; connected to PayPal, created skin from PhotoShop mockups
  • 1996-present creation, hosting, multiple redesigns of vbz.net (rework currently in progress)
• independent web projects
  • (2018/01) TootCat - a Mastodon instance with 1200+ users (ongoing maintenance & hosting)
  • Virtual Bazaar Project Tracker - project management (uses Redmine)
  • VBZ Cloud - file hosting (uses NextCloud)
  • (2014) The Center for Wingnut Remedial Education: refuting popular political myths and such
  • (2013) Instagov - designing software for better decisionmaking within very large groups
  • (2007) Woozalia (this site)
  • (2005) HypertWiki - personal wiki for self & partner
  • LessigWiki - official wiki for Lawrence Lessig
  • (2005) HTYP - a geographical and technical directory
  • (2005) Issuepedia - a political analysis wiki
  • involvement with numerous other sites, hosting creative projects

Issuepedia, HTYP, LessigWiki, Woozalia, InstaGov, HypertWiki, and CWRE are all MediaWiki-based.

Coding Policies

The following policy applies to all computer code I write for hire.

Unless otherwise noted, and with the exception of code known by me to represent trade secrets or private information such as account numbers or passwords, all code I write for any client is released to that client non-exclusively and may be re-used or released under a free software license at my discretion. Coding time billed to any client will not be re-billed to future clients who may use the same code or portions thereof.

In plain English:

• By default, code you pay me to write is released to you non-exclusively; I may re-use such code at my discretion.
• I will not, however, bill another client for the same code.
• Nor will I bill you for any work (including coding) that was not done specifically to meet the needs of your project.
  • If I make use of any pre-existing code, I will only bill for any work necessary to adapt it to your project regardless of whether the code was written by me or by someone else.
• You may continue to use the code indefinitely, free of (further) charge, regardless of whether I release it publicly.

Also, on request, I will be happy to acknowledge your funding of development work on any such code that I release publicly; just let me know how you would like to be acknowledged, and the URL to which the credit should link.

Other

• GitHub, GitLab, KeyBase
• A more complete history of my computing experience
• my personal site
• profile on toot.cat (Mastodon instance I host & administer)