Coding experience

Updated: Thu Apr 17 2025

I’ve dabbled in code over the course of my career to automate tasks, create websites, and convert structured content to HTML.

Created my first web site in the 1990s.
Wrote SQL queries to retrieve and analyze actual hidden user metrics of a legacy help system.
Wrote custom XSLT to transform DITA XML to HTML that was published to a CMS.
Wrote a Python script to help subject matter experts auto-fill the required metadata and fields for their homepage.
Wrote numerous scripts to automate repetitive team tasks.
Created a site in Drupal CMS from scratch called contentcontent.info (archive.org link), an aggregator for technical content, that lasted 10 years.
Founding member of Drupal CMS Northern NJ user group.
Created edmarsh.com from scratch in WordPress.
Updated edmarsh.com in 2025 to run on a static site generator.

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