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Aug 2009 - Lightbox2 co-maintainer

Recent Drupal Websites

http://blogs.familyeducation.com

http://forums.familyeducation.com

http://comments.familyeducation.com

Providing commenting capability to legacy PHP websites.

Problem: FamilyEducation Network is a series of websites for Parents and Teachers. They include these and several more sites:

http://life.familyeducation.com
http://fun.familyeducation.com
http://school.familyeducation.com

They wanted to give users of the site the ability to comment on articles on these sites. To do this it was decided that we would use Drupal as wrapper for comments. These comments are hosted on http://comments.familyeducation.com.

Creating a site wide Twitter presence

Problem: Although there are existing Twitter modules for Drupal 5.x (Twitter and Tweet) they do not work as desired for the blog site: http://blogs.familyeducation.com/parenting. The blogging on this site takes place by professional writers, members of the site may only comment and not contribute their own blog content. They wanted to have a Twitter presence that represented all of the bloggers on this site and so that all of the articles would be "tweeted" in one Twitter stream: http://twitter.com/familyeducation

About this site

I created this site to contain my resume and samples of my code and problem solving techniques.

Please contact me using the contact form.

You can download a copy of my resume in *.doc format from the link below.

Thank you for visiting my site and looking at my work. Please feel free to contact me with questions or comments.

Sincerely,
Tracy Pilcher

Unique sitemap.xml files for Drupal Multi-site setup

Problem: We have 3 Drupal sites that are set up as a multi-site installation. The advantage of this is that we can share user tables, which are in turn replicated on the main FEN authentication server. The down side to this is that the existing Sitemaps module will not work with this multi-site config because the sitemap.xml has to be in the root directory for each of the sites i.e.

http://blogs.familyeducation.com/sitemap.xml
http://comments.familyeducation.com/sitemap.xml
http://forums.familyeducation.com/sitemap.xml

About Me

Attention Employment Agencies

Just to save you an email inquiry. Thank you for your interest, however, I am currently working full time from home. I am not looking for new opportunities at this time. I also cannot refer someone else that may be looking for work.

Why Open Source?

Open Source and "Free" software has given me the opportunity to grow into a successful IT professional. I have not taken the traditional road that most web developers have chosen. But with the help of the Open Source Community it has been, and continues to be, a rewarding journey.

What this means for you, my client, is that you will always be given a clear and B.S. free understanding of what is required to create and maintain your successful web site.

I will never talk down to you and I make sure that we are always on the same page when it comes to planning your project.

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