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Top Skills
- software design, primarily web
- 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
- informal learner (prefer to learn by doing)
Accomplishments
- web dev
- 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)
- via Swashbuckler Interactive:
- web projects
- Issuepedia (2005) - a political analysis wiki
- HTYP (2005) - a geographical and technical directory
- LessigWiki - official wiki for Lawrence Lessig
- HypertWiki (2005) - personal wiki for self & partner
- Woozalia (2007) (this site)
- Instagov (2013) - designing software for better decisionmaking within very large groups
- The Center for Wingnut Remedial Education (2014): refuting popular political myths and such
- Virtual Bazaar Project Tracker - project management (uses Redmine)
- TootCat (from 2017/12) - a Mastodon instance (ongoing maintenance & hosting)
- involvement with numerous other sites, hosting creative projects belonging to a couple of friends
Issuepedia, HTYP, LessigWiki, Woozalia, InstaGov, and CWRE are all MediaWiki-based, some using W3TPL and
Other
- GitHub, GitLab, KeyBase
- A more complete history of my computing experience
- more about me in general
- profile on toot.cat