Portland State University
In a year as a Drupal specialist contractor for Portland State University, I created useful solutions for teachers and students. Working for the PSU gave me the opportunity to delve into the inner workings of Drupal while doing important work.
The Solutions Journal
My first task was a long list of maintenance tasks for an already completed project. Solutions Journal is an amazingly beautiful academic style magazine. Unfortunately, their ageing Drupal 6 site was overrun by a spammer. This spammer broke every captcha method in the Drupal toolbox, and I tried them all. Eventually, I locked down the spam problem by removing all links from profiles via a formatter, and The journal later blocked profile pages entirely.
One of my projects was to clone Craig’s List, which I did quickly using Jobber. However, the project was never used.
Medieval Portland
This was a fun project converting a custom coded database into a a modern Drupal 7 application. Not only did I have a chance to write my well-used Drupal 7 Drush import script, I got to replicate the pdx.edu theme outside of The main university Drupal. Can you tell the difference? I can’t.
PSU Research Graphic
How do you make a circle created by arrows? We used V’s and rotated them. It was a pain. But, the results were featured on the PDX.edu/research home page.
Museum of the City
It’s a museum in a website. A fantastic project fuelled by student-driven content. Being the most design-oriented programmer at ARC, I was asked to redesign the MotC website. While, I greatly preferred my first design, the end result was pretty great.