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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 (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.
Other
- GitHub, GitLab, KeyBase
- A more complete history of my computing experience
- my personal site
- profile on toot.cat