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Recent Adventures in (Commodity) Drupal Hosting
I recently built a Drupal site for a small (individual) client who wanted to host the site on a
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MY REVIEW OF “DRUPAL: CREATING BLOGS, FORUMS, PORTALS AND COMMUNITY WEBSITES” BY DAVID MERCER
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REVIEW OF RESTFUL PHP WEB SERVICES BOOK BY SAMISA ABEYSINGHE
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FIXING SHIPCALC MODULE BUG IS AN EXAMPLE OF OVERRIDING DRUPAL FORMS
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ABOUT ME
I possess over a decade of experience building custom applications and customizing off-the-shelf applications based on open source technologies, with particular emphasis in these areas:
Content Management
E-commerce
Digital imaging
Digital sset management
Digital repositories
Digital preservation
I possess a breadth and depth of expertise to engineer solutions that best fit your needs:
PHP, including Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, osCommerce, Magento, Gallery2, and Moodle
Ruby, including Ruby on Rails and JRuby
Python, including Django and Zope
MySQL, jQuery, Blueprint, and many others
Software
Although my primary language for many years has been Java (I was an early adopter of the Struts framework, for example), I have years of experience in PHP, Python and Perl as well. I am also proficient in JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, SQL and using data scraping API, including specific work in MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access.
I am also an experienced project manager, following tenets of both the Extreme Programming and Adaptive Software Development methodologies. I have applied these in my work at Cornell University and for Agile Enterprise Software, an independent software company I founded.
Before becoming a software developer, I worked for several years as a graphic designer and copy editor. I still use these skills today in my work, especially for Agile Enterprise Software.