Crooked Number is the home of David Moore, a web developer who specializes in Drupal.
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International Development Division (of EDC)

I helped the International Education Systems division of EDC merge its website with that of the Global Learning Group to become the International Development Division (IDD). I then worked on moving their site from my homemade CMS to drupal. I advised on all elements of the site: architecture, navigation, SEO, drupal module choices, personnel and vendor choices, etc. Design was done by DeCarolis Design and Marketing; drupal theming by 19th Street Design.

Education Development Center

Education Development Center was my last employer. I was in charge of their main site, which was re-launched on Drupal in the fall of 2008. I also worked on several other (mostly Drupal) EDC sites in a variety capacities: project manager; developer; themer; consultant; etc.

Oxfam America

From 2002-2005, I headed up Oxfam America's fledgling online outreach program, helped build their e-list from 5,000 to over 100,000, and helped raise nearly $20 million online. In the process, I became very familiar with the Get Active (now Convio) application service provider - a 3rd-party web app which does a lot of the 'heavy lifting' (list management, bulk email, credit card processing, etc.).

Health and Human Development Division (of EDC)

I acted as technical advisor on the HHD site as the static HTML version was moved to drupal. I provided help with architecture, theming, and custom code.

RESIST

In late 2010, I helped RESIST with a soup-to-nuts overhaul. We started with a fresh, modern design. Static HTML pages were moved to Drupal 6. I re-worked the information architecture and turned some of their content (e.g., newsletters) into drupal content types -- providing the advantages of "databased" data and setting the stage for RESIST to move their entire grants catalog into an online, searchable database.

US Campaign for Burma

I occasionally volunteer with the US Campaign for Burma. It's a wordpress site with some serious modifications. I've helped out with template tweaks, security concerns, general maintenance, as well as various hosting issues.

Grassroots International

This ongoing project provided me with a real Drupal trial-by-fire. The dev site was in version 4.7. I ported over several hundred nodes from a blogger site and created almost two dozen node types. The Grassroots International site gave me the opportunity to learn Drupal theming, module-building, image handling -- and a number of other skills.

Higher Ed Center

It's -- take a breath -- The US Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention, a drupal site created and run by EDC. I acted as technical adviser and themer on this site. I helped with content-types decisions, php snippets in blocks, and views. I also took the designers comps and combined them with Zen to create the site's final theme.

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

I worked with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee for several years, consulting with them on a number of tech issues. I convinced them to move their static site to drupal. I also aided them in choosing an application service provider (Convio). And I helped UUSC find the developer who built the site.

I can't take credit for the UUSC site. But hats off to Lightbulb First and JM Designs for putting together a great site. [More info]

Tap eLearning: HOPWA Best Practices

The HOPWA Best Practices site is a straightforward drupal site created by the AIDS Housing Corporation, which has since merged with Victory Programs. I provided initial drupal training, some theming help, and feedback on best practices. Design and site creation was done by Andy Keys, who can be found at Oakleaf Green Landscape Design and Garden Smackdown.

Mets by the Numbers

Baseball meets Drupal ... again. During Christmas 2007, Jon Springer contacted after moving his site -- a catalog of every uniform number worn by every player -- from Wordpress to Drupal. I helped him out with a number of administrative and theming issues. But the best part was the challenge of Drupalizing his very primitive database of uniform numbers. Using Views, CCK, a number of helper modules, and some good ol' trial-and-error, however, we were able to create some slick rosters (by player name and uniform number).

In 2010, I moved mbtn to drupal 6 and gave it a smart new theme.

Historiann

History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present. That about says it all. A simple Wordpress install, with some significant tweaks to an off-the shelf theme. The (not uncontroversial) content of Historiann is much more interesting than the story of its creation. Enjoy!

Genuine Love

Ahhh. The first site that I created 100% on my own. Genuine Love is a Red Sox blog born in 2004 that has gone through countless iterations (and raised a decent amount of cash for me). In 2007, the site was ported to drupal. In 2008, I returned it to its roots; the ads were removed and I gave it a look -- black and white, vertical rhythm -- which was inspired in no small part by, among others, the great Koi Vinh. After taking 2009 off (much like the Sox), genuinelove has taken yet another incarnation, this time as a tumblr page.

Sox Feeds

A rainy-day project that has been years in the making. Open source is all about scratching itches, and SoxFeeds.com is no different. Desperate for a way to view all my Red Sox/MLB news at once, I created this site, using Drupal, CCK, Views, a touch of jQuery and the incomparable FeedAPI module. This season, I stripped down the resulting markup to a less than 3KB (!), then started building it up with jQuery Mobile. It's now primarily designed for mobile; the desktop takes a backseat. Short on style, but tall on info.

Exploring Humanitarian Law

This Joomla site for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided me with a number of interesting challenges, not the least of which was understanding and then mastering Joomla. I created a custom theme for the site, integrated it with PHPBB, and installed/tweaked countless modules. Take a look; the subject matter is certainly intriguing.

International Education Systems

Creating the IES site was a great experience. It tested my PHP, SQL, and CSS skills. But I learned much more about client relations, information architecture, data migration, Python (to help with the migration), SEO, and teaching people to write for the web (if not always succeeding). The subject matter is pretty intriguing as well.

Updates

  • 2 weeks 4 days ago

    Excited to be working with Kevin Hankens again. He just made me co-maintainer of the drafts module.
  • 6 weeks 15 hours ago

    Lots of cool things happening these days with the drupal NPR project. And much more to come! http://drupal.org/project/npr
  • 19 weeks 2 days ago

    Had a great time the past few days at NPR -- trying to replace the Google Search Appliance with drupal native search plus a mongo + python service that consolidates all search data from ~50 stations (a/k/a - federated search). Fascinating stuff! (And I'm amazed at how much python I've forgotten.)

  • 26 weeks 4 days ago

    Stable drupal7 versions of Path Blacklist and Wordcount are out!
  • 32 weeks 6 days ago

    I'll be speaking at BADCAMP 2011. See you there! http://2011.badcamp.net/program/sessions/web-face-radio-npr-builds-platf...

  • 42 weeks 5 days ago

    The dev version of freeCommerce for D7 is out!
  • 50 weeks 4 days ago

    Just finished the first pass at massive re-write of path blacklist for D7. Now on to word count!
  • 50 weeks 5 days ago

    Branching out and looking at alternatives to Coda. First, Komodo. Then, Textmate (in earnest, this time).
  • 1 year 3 weeks ago

    Just built a NLTK drupal module. It's all very proof-of-concept right now. But I did manage to send data -- drupal to PHP to Python to NLTK -- and get the correct response back. Very cool!
  • 1 year 4 weeks ago

    Very cool! Just got my first patch to drupal 8 committed (and back-ported to 7.x). http://drupal.org/node/1132364

Crooked Twitter

  • @andriconthejob To be clear. It's "document as you go while slavishly following the #drupal doc standard" http://t.co/smn5BWZh No fun at all — 1 day 22 hours ago
  • I've never been a "clean as you go" person in the kitchen. But seriously trying to be a "document as you go" person with my code. — 1 day 22 hours ago
  • Twitter could use a "weird and poorly written bot" flag. cc @PerlUpdate — 3 days 15 hours ago
  • You're not allowed to be uppity about a coding standard if you're picking and choosing from it like it's Old Country Buffet. — 1 week 5 days ago
  • Sometimes loose coupling trumps DRY. I'm OK with that. — 2 weeks 5 days ago
  • "Yeah, but no one would ever want that..." is rarely an acceptable defense, ESPECIALLY when leaving that option open is trivial to implement — 2 weeks 6 days ago
  • Gidorah a/k/a - Monster Zero. Gotta love the fact that the Xians zero-index their mind-controlled monsters. http://t.co/4ofaw6Ig — 2 weeks 6 days ago
  • "the act of writing tests encourages the programmer to write code in small chunks that can be tested independently." http://t.co/8TqBU1EL — 3 weeks 1 day ago
  • If you don't understand every line you're copying, you probably shouldn't be copying it. And you DEFINITELY shouldn't be pasting it. — 3 weeks 3 days ago
  • Love that the new @github page generator has a "Leap Day" theme (full of blue and yellow, naturally) https://t.co/JFPU0dyy — 3 weeks 6 days ago
  • "All code in any code-base should look like a single person typed it, no matter how many people contributed." https://t.co/OsA73D6r — 4 weeks 5 days ago
  • It's turning into one of those "But what's different on the production servers?" kind of days .... — 4 weeks 6 days ago
  • Today's killer revelation: git add -p — 7 weeks 4 days ago
  • Loving the @heyrocker tweets. #drupal architecture + @weddingpresent + @superchunk Worlds collide! — 7 weeks 4 days ago
  • Did http://t.co/u148YBBo expire? RIP to one of my all-time fave sites. You were the James Dean of the #drupal world. Too young, too soon. — 8 weeks 3 days ago
  • Dark patterns: http://t.co/xbu2huvx — 8 weeks 4 days ago
  • "It's not about you, it's about the code." Repeat as necessary. — 8 weeks 5 days ago
  • "Delicious improved [sic] tagging by allowing spaces in tags...But the tag complete feature should support this..." http://t.co/eVGxyiuN — 8 weeks 6 days ago
  • Moved from "new" (free) delicious to paid #pinboard. But not before I realized my export was littered with underscores when I wanted spaces. — 8 weeks 6 days ago
  • My IRC usage has gone up an order of magnitude ever since I dropped colloquy for limechat -- http://t.co/9nMgg6U3 — 8 weeks 6 days ago