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The topic of this website is programming. For my author site, I originally cloned from my programming portfolio site, cut, then extended for years, then recently migrated from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9.
Most author sites are WordPress these days.
The site supported the launch of my book, Indoor Salad: How to Grow Vegetables Indoors, published in September 2013, an Amazon category best seller. There were a couple physical products, too, but I pivoted away.
I'm a student of Eric Ries' Lean Startup methodology, and involved in the New Haven entrepreneurial scene.
The Indoor Salad website was my first Drupal eCommerce site, using Ubercart on Drupal 7, with a mobile-friendly responsive layout based on AT-Commerce.
Implemented a database-rule-driven product configurator, as part of a migration of the Rig-A-Lite site to Drupal 7. Rig-A-Lite provides lighting solutions for hazardous environments, such as light fixtures for off-shore oil rigs. Their old product configurator did not enforce legal configuration choices - such as which ballasts require fuse blocks, or are not available with metal halide lamps, for example - which caused order processing aggravation for their worldwide sales reps and customers.
The configurator is iframe'd into Drupal, leveraging the company's old sophisticated full-custom PHP/MySQL/JQuery CMS backend to populate its new Drupal front end. The new rules data is edited in a valid-configurations Excel table, and imported into the CMS, to drive the product configurator user interface.
Last I knew, most products hadn't been converted to use the new configurator. That was a design feature, that the new system would allow them to use both old and new product configurators side by side, as they gradually converted products.
Implemented Drupal themes for Ezra Stiles College and Morse College at Yale, among others. Simple work for hire - I was given designs to implement. Wrote the documentation for several other colleges' Drupal themes, and did occasional maintenance on themes implemented by other subcontractors.
Yale University had its own Drupal 6 version and modules and standards.
My website's latest incarnation is a quick Drupal 9 port of a site built for Drupal 7 practice in 2011, and revamped with a responsive theme in 2013.
MapNavigator interactively explored a 3-year world cruise itinerary. Embedded in a Drupal site, and then reimplemented in HTML5. Drupal and HTML5 is the technology stack I originally recommended, but the client tried to save money and ended up implementing it twice and spending more. That happens.
The client doesn't seem to use an interactive anymore.
AerogardenMastery was a Drupal community site I built around my indoor gardening hobby, with Aerogardens and assorted other gardening technology. Site featured full custom theme, PhotoBucket integration, and drag n drop from Google Picasa API into lightboxes. Most recent change was reimplementing Picasa lightboxer in jQuery, from Flex.
This was a labor of love, but when hackers kept breaking it, I couldn't afford the time.
CrossPlan / Cross-Suite was a site for social integrated circuit block-level layout editing. I built database, intelligent integrated circuit editor, design history management, integrated instant messaging, and the whole Drupal site, for The Shearwater Group and Pinebush Technologies. The recession put the project on terminal hold.