Author

The person behind Dublin Core for Drupal is Matthew "Smiffy" Smith, a freelance Web applications developer, residing in South Australia.

Smiffy Talks Drupal

I have now been fiddling around with Drupal for about four years and, up to now, had only used it for a couple of personal projects. Until Drupal 5 and the Garland theme, I had some reservations about making accessible sites with Drupal - at least without having to put a lot of work in to make them so. Things have moved on now, and accessible Drupal looks much closer.

There are two things that I need to do with Drupal to get it where I want it: the first is to make it easy to maintain and display Dublin Core metadata, the second is to pull apart the Garland theme, see how it works, and then put it back together again with a few accessibility enhancements.

For a few months, I have been working on taking the software that drives my blog, which is written in Perl, converting it to as set of PHP functions and presenting it as a CMS toolkit. I am now considering dropping this idea and, instead, extending Drupal with those little functions that I just can't live without. The metadata module is my first move in this direction.

Contact Information

  • Site Contact Form
  • IRC nick: msmiffy. Smiffy has been spotted on Freenode channels #gentoo-amd64, #accessibility, #drupal, #drupal-support and #swig, and on the OFTC #linode channel.
  • Skype: msmiffy (IM only, audio by prior arrangement, or IM request. Have to get headset out, see?)
  • Timezone is UCT +0930, with daylight saving of 1 hour from late October to late March