Contracting

Woozle Nicol Hypertwin Staddon

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)

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)
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
- TootCat (from 2017/12) - a Mastodon instance (ongoing maintenance & hosting)
- involvement with numerous other sites, hosting creative projects belonging to a couple of friends