David Boone

Skills

Work Experience

Premier School Agendas

Webmaster

Using as much Open-Source technology as possible, I did the programming and system administration necessary to make the following sites (among others) dynamically driven and "work." Most projects with this company were done using Mason, a form of embedded perl, and run on Linux or OS/X servers. Load balancing among multiple HTTP servers and a separate database server was used where necessary.

• Corporate Site - www.premieragendas.com
  • Completely dynamic site for easy editing and maintenance
  • Online store: custom shopping cart and checkout system
• Student Learning Site - www.mydiscoverzone.com
  • Companion site to physical School Planner
  • Wrote all code to run site, including user signup and login, activities, messaging, forums, Project/Goal/Grade Managers, etc.
  • Over 350,000 users
• Product Configurator - configurator.premieragendas.com
  This job involved creating a highly interactive site that allowed customers to login and customize their planner order. Based on order information pulled from the company database using a custom protocol, the site would reflect the customers planner and require them to pick the options, customize the text areas and upload graphics. Graphics are checked that they are of the proper size and resolution suitable for printing before being accepted. In addition, events and holidays could be imported, entered and modified. I wrote custom code to allow Rich-Text-Editing of events, allowing customer to use bold, italics and underline within their events. All text areas were wrapped and checked for fit using font metric information.
• School's Customized Sites - www.premierplanner.org
  • Sites automatically created based on order information from company database or the Configurator site if applicable
  • Allows school administrator to customize URL, colors, School Name, Logos, etc of site
  • Publically accessible school calendars editable by the teachers
  • Students can create accounts and login to access personal Power Tools including My Mission, My Goals, My Projects and My Grades

Server Administration

Personal Project

• HTTP using Apache
• CGI and PHP support using SuEXEC for security
• SSH for full shell access
• QMail for full email services, including:
  • SMTP after POP/IMAP authentication
  • POP & IMAP with full SSL encryption support
  • SpamAssassin and Clam spam and virus filtering
  • Each user has full control of their domain's email, controllable through a web interface or via shell.
• FTP server
• DNS server using BIND9
• IRC server

Hobbies & Interests

• Radio Control Helicopters: Building and flying
• Sportbikes: Maintaining and riding
• Cars: Enjoy driving and fixing/modifying car
• Programming and learning new skills such as 3d graphics
• Electronics: Circuitry and microcontrollers

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