php - involved in many large and small client projects (and some personal projects) using php (from year 2000 to present), including implementation of:

• many Drupal-based production websites (see separate section, below)
• both frontend and backend pages using the Fast Templates system as well as standard php scripting
• complex administration/backend pages for control of site content
• full Content Management System with data-driven menus and site map, permissions, document management and comprehensive Search Engine
• libraries and classes for database access, session implementation, isolation of layers, and generation of complex HTML forms using Fast Templates
• server-side generation of images and pdf files
• rugged user and group security at the application level
• E-Commerce front end (i.e.: shopping cart and checkout)
• routines to generate tree layouts and depth-first sort orders from database representations of trees (e.g.: site maps, menu trees)
• automatic font sizing based on browser and platform of client

Drupal - involved in many client projects (and some personal projects) using Drupal, one such site is http://www.plongeon.qc.ca, including implementation of:

• Press Releases and Newsletters listings, using Teaser/Full-Node Views and Content Templates
• "Nouvelle" (new) listings on home page, using all of the above to generate DHTML-controlled multi-node content block
• Data driven site map, reading pages directly from Drupal's menu table (accounting for all security permissions), displayed in sideways tree format, and requiring no admin updating whatsoever. See http://www.plongeon.qc.ca/?q=node/86

- another site is http://wwoof.ca, and the sister site http://wwoofhawaii.org, including implementation of:

• Paypal integration for subscriptions and one-time purchases
• many modifications to user registration flow (behaviour based on multiple roles)
• complex "Views" implementation involving modified Search form, taxonomy depth search, and more (see http://wwoof.ca/hosts/listing)
• Extensive use of Content Construction Kit (CCK), User Profile fields and Content Templates

- another site is http://bethechangeearthalliance.org, including implementation of:

• Ubercart e-commerce module, with minor customizations
• detailed use of User Profile fields, Content Construction Kit and Content Templates
• extensive coding in php and the Drupal forms API, to create custom modules in php to provide Circles, Circle Membership, Actions and Results tracking
• re-use of complex CCK fields like Realname Autocomplete in non-CCK forms
• implementation of Calendar module and custom Events content type
• customized DHTML Menus with special color-coding and clean action

- another site is http://kootenayfamilyplace.org, including implementation of:

• categorized Calendars and a custom Events content type, with views of Calendars for different categories, or a global Calendar with all events, based on the Calendar module but with fairly extensive modifications
• Custom coding in php and the Drupal forms API, to create a module to provide full-featured Job Board functionality (as a Drupal "node module")
• custom coding in php and the Drupal forms API, to give News Stream functionality (multiple News Item streams) using CCK fields
• detailed use of User Profile fields, Content Construction Kit and Content Templates
• customized DHTML Menus with special color-coding and clean action (similar to Be The Change Earth Alliance but not identical)
• special security coding on backend, using Simple Access as a control mechanism to assign edit privileges to different Admins for different sections of the website, where section is defined by higher-end parts of the Clean URL.

- another site is maggiesglutenfree.com, including implementation of:

• Ubercart e-commerce module with extensive customization to product displays
• Imagecache image management system for product images, nutritional labels, etc.
• custom Articles content type with NodeQueue for arbitrary node ordering

- another site is http://dillermontreal.com, mainly straight CMS but including implementation of a customized Blog module with Archives, and a Galleries area, using Gallery_Assist module and CoolIris picture viewer.

- another site is http://www.bradmcg.com, essentially just a straight CMS with some custom coding to use the Users table as a general-purpose Contact Management database (with contact categories and bulk mailout capabilities using the Mass Contact module)


AJAX - some experience in writing AJAX-based web software; using Backbase, the Orange application server (from Digital Lattice) and various Javascript-based AJAX libraries.


ASP - involved in two large client projects using ASP, including implementation of:

• complex administration/backend pages for control of site content
• automatic email generation
• various menuing systems for both frontend and backend pages
• document management

Cold Fusion - involved in numerous client projects using Cold Fusion, both frontend pages and administration/backend pages, including many sites using the CF-Webstore e-commerce/CMS framework (eg: http://www.connectsus.com, http://www.interimaging.com)


HTML, CSS Style Sheets - knowledgeable in all the necessary features for text and image based sites of high levels of complexity


Javascript/DHTML

• experienced in manipulation of form control behaviour, image display, event handling, dynamic display of text, and other Javascript usages
• some experience in using DWR and other Javascript-based AJAX libraries

SQL

• have written web scripts using both the MySQL and MS-SQL databases, and designed and created large databases on both platforms
• also used PostgreSQL in web scripting
• approximately 20 years of familiarity with SQL, almost daily usage (in webscripting) for the last ten years

CVS - have worked with various projects under the CVS Version Control system, including the use of CVS to directly update the client's web server


XML - worked on one project using an XML data source, including optimization of XML data retrieval code (in php)


Microsoft Access

• involved in numerous client projects using MS-Access
• have used MS-Access with SQL-server backend as well as Jet engine database

Visual Basic - involved in one client project using Visual Basic (real-time RF communication)


XVT/XI (platform-portable GUI development tool, MS-Windows version) - involved in development of WIMS (WasteWater Information Management System) for the GVRD, using the XVT & XI interface libraries and C language. This project required use of the Microsoft SQL Server library and the coding of many window event-handler functions in C (approx 37,000 lines of code, two years in duration).


C/C++:

• writing of WIMS program (in conjunction with XVT/XI, see above)
• C also used in two smaller client projects

Advanced Revelation (AREV) & R/BASIC (DOS 4GL database and attached language) - over ten years experience in writing large and small client applications in Advanced Revelation and RevG (a prior version of the language)