Robin Daugherty
About Me
I'm a software developer. I specialize in web-based applications, but I have experience with many types of software and platforms.
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Skills
- Software development:
- XHTML and CSS: I stick to properly structured content, separating the presentation from the content.
- PHP and MySQL on Apache and Linux.
- Javascript, including AJAX, using YUI, Prototype, and Scriptaculous.
- Integration with various services and in-house applications, such as MediaWiki, PHP-Nuke, Recaptcha, Cybersource, AuthorizeNet, PayPal Website Payments, Google Checkout, Google Analytics...
- Network design and implementation for highly-available high-traffic public website. Multiple servers on multiple networks with multiple load balancers with multiple uplinks.
Stuff I once did
- Designed and wrote call processing software using Dialogic cards and Voice Technology Group's Voicebridge cards. (Dialogic and VTG were both bought by Intel, which then spun Dialogic back off.)
- Software development using C and C++ on Linux.
- Developing Windows NT/2000 applications and services using C++ with and without MFC.
- PalmOS app development (using GCC), including SpringBoard barcode scanners from Symbol.
- Apps on top of Lotus Notes and Domino.
- Built and managed network using Mitel SX-200 and 3300 IP phone systems with VOIP over VPNs using Cisco 2600 routers.
- Voice and data connections: ISDN, T1s, DSL, even POTS. Pricing, installation, and support all of these--new service, upgrades, recabling, and relocations.
- Designing and building infrastructure: running cable, equipment rooms, patch panels, etc.
- Samba on Linux and Mac OSX acting as domain controller for Windows networks, including profiles and user/department shares.
- Support of terminal servers running Citrix Metaframe on Windows 2000 with Office 2000, Lotus Notes R5, IBM AS/400 Client Access and RightFAX.
My Projects
- MOTODEV (content management system, backend services)
- Wine Bank ("Wine For Sale" site only)
- Rugs To Go!
- Literacy Pod (content management system, shopping cart)
- Huddle An open source call center management system.
My Friends
Favorite Quotes
"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit."
Robert Heinlein, Life-Line
My Story
When I was 10 years old, I was given an old computer that was broken, some sort of Xerox terminal that ran CP/M. I took it apart and put it back together, and when I was done it was working again.
Thus began my career in "computers".
I learned Borland Turbo Basic and began writing simple DOS applications that required the user to enter their password. This led me to write a library to do windowing and essentially widgets in text mode for DOS. The library included text inputs, checkboxes, radio buttons, pulldowns, menus, and buttons.
Turbo Basic had the ability to include blocks of assembly, so I got a copy of Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book. My library functions used BIOS calls for keyboard input and screen output, which sped things up considerably. I rewrote this library a number of times, usually because I made a mistake, lost my backup and had to start over.
I stumbled across a Microsoft Press book on QuickC (I think it was called "Learn QuickC") and ended up rewriting my library using Microsoft QuickC. One notable application that I completed in C was a low-level floppy disk editor.
In 1996 I started playing with Linux. I used Linux From Scratch to learn everything I could about how the operating system works. I migrated from pure C on DOS, to C++ on Windows and Linux, to PHP.
In 1997 I began working for Ohio Valley Flooring, a medium-sized private company that distributes flooring products. At first I supported and helped train users, many of whom were long-time salespeople with no computer experience.
While doing support I began to help with other systems, such as the telephone and voicemail system. In my spare time I wrote software for an automated attendant, so that customers calling the company would have the option of entering an extension instead of going directly to the call center. I presented my solution, and management decided to give it a try. After it was implemented, the number of calls that went directly to the call center were reduced by about a third, while the overall call volume grew each month.
My responsibilities grew to include telecommunications, and various other odd tasks that came about.
I worked on many diverse projects, from designing a telecommunications network for the company's many locations to helping to troubleshoot the software on a programmable logic controller for a flooring cutting machine. I designed the data and telephone networking for new offices, gathered bids for service, ordered parts, and did the final installation.
Here's one example of a telecommunications-related project on which I worked.
In 2004, I designed a network to link 6 locations together with VPNs to connect voice calls and data traffic. I learned to configure Cisco routers and Mitel IP telephone systems, how to set up Quality of Service to make sure the voice calls wouldn't be affected by data traffic on the same connection. I configured and installed the equipment for this network at each location, and cut over service one at a time. (This also meant I had to design a way to gradually move service to the new network without downtime.)
In 2005 I decided to pursue a job doing only software development, and I went to work for a company that uses Macs. I became a Mac user permanently after using it as my development platform for a few months.
In late 2006 I moved to Sunnyvale, California to join the team running the Motorola Developer Network, a.k.a MOTODEV. I am the senior engineer on the Developer Programs team, responsible for the software and hardware that runs the website and related systems.
My Geek Code
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What's This Site Running?
Apache Web Server on Linux.
