Coding experience

I’ve coded over the course of my career to feed my curiosity, add value, and to speak (and translate) developers’ language into high-quality content.

Created my first web site in the 1990s.
Wrote SQL queries to retrieve and analyze actual hidden user metrics of a legacy help system.
Converted a 1500-topic Adobe RoboHelp project to DITA XML.
Wrote custom XSLT to transform DITA to HTML.
Created a unique publishing platform using Atlassian Confluence as a content management system (CMS) with a custom front end.
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 in 2008.
Updated edmarsh.com in 2025 to run on a static site generator.

Tools used

Community building