Dan Drinkard
About
Menu »just spent 40 minutes debugging a bug that didn't exist b/c an error log wasn't writable :( Happy 4th of July!
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He's also a Web developer, musical hobbyist, snowboarder, car junkie, amateur photographer, coffee addict, and pretty nice guy, though he can't stand people who talk about themselves in the third person...
So, I live in the 'burbs around Washington, DC with my soon-to-be wife Andrea. I currently work as a senior web developer & consultant with the obscenely talented folks at nclud.
I'm into standards & accessibility, PHP, CodeIgniter, Rails and Ajax, and dream of one day freelancing full-time. If you've got a project or gig and want to see what 5 years of professional Web production experience and a decade of avid Web consumerism can do for it, drop me a line and say hi. If you're not quite sold, have a look at my resume, because I bet discovering that I can make a pdf will do the trick.
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Work
Menu »Work? Hardly, I do
this for fun.
U.S. Army Homepage
In 2006, I participated in the rearchitecture and redesign of the Army's Homepage, to be tied into a new, collaborative CMS called the CORE.
- Client: United States Army
- Role: Collaborated on all phases of production
U.S. Army CORE
This custom CMS was built for the U.S. Army as a virtual newsdesk to enable Soldiers from around the world to upload, approve and publish content in real time.
- Client: United States Army
- Role: Architecture, database, team design and development
Wedding Website
I built this site in February of 2007 to keep family and friends informed about the details of my wedding, complete with online RSVP, Google-maps and recent news.
- Client: Self
- Role: All branding, design and development
Women in the U.S. Army
I collaborated with colleague Samantha Warren to create this interactive timeline on the history of Women's role in the Army, fed dynamically from an xml file.
- Client: United States Army
- Role: Development, some asset design
InConsequence.net
I built this site for some college buddies in a punk/metal band. It features page loads via ajax (at the behest of the integrated flash mp3 player), and a basic CMS.
- Client: InConsequence, a band
- Role: All branding, design and development
- Alas, they broke up, so this site is no longer maintained.
Army Outreach
My first PHP project, this site (now Army ComRel) was built to fulfill the Army's need for a public event calendar, as well as an interface to event organizers, authors and filmmakers wishing to use Army assets.
- Client: United States Army
- Role: Dynamic flash, team design and development
Welcome Back to School!
Welcome Back to School was an initiative to recognize Soldiers returning to college after deployment. Provided a logo, I created this brochure within the parent site.
- Client: United States Army
- Role: Dynamic flash, design and development
Eisenhower Series
This series of events brought together congressmen, foreign dignitaries, and senior Army leadership to discuss foreign policy. I built the 2005 site, as well as branding and print collateral.
- Client: United States Army
- Role: All branding, design and development
Thoughts
Menu »So, um, I guess it's been a while since I posted, huh? In the last 5-or-whatever-it-was months I have done literally metric tonnes of stuff, highlights of which I would love nothing more than to share with you here:
• Had a blast at SXSW '08
It was groin-grabbingly transcendent. The topic has already been covered extensively here, here and here but all in all, a great time was had, much was learned, and possibly even more was forgotten.
• Started a new job!
I parted ways with the U.S. Army in February, and started with nclud, an amazingly rad design agency in DC. We moved from here to here, and it is like heaven.
• Did a lot of house hunting...
...and learned that buying a house is a pain in the ass. We narrowly avoided buying this place, couldn't strike a deal on this one, and have probably run up about a $400 bill on our poor realtor's gas tank along the way. Hopefully more on this one later...
• Started a bunch of projects
Currently in the works are my first forays into AS3, Python/Django, Google AppEngine, and the iPhone SDK... No links just yet ;)
• Decided that blogging == FAIL
This might be the point of this post. I use blogger and its gloriously obtuse API (read: I pick apart their ATOM feed) now to run this section of the site, and the process, format, time commitment, etc. aren't working out so hot, obviously. So, someday when I'm not quite so busy, I'll be converting this section to tumblr, which I should have done from the get-go, as this was meant to be a collecting place for snippets and thoughts, not editorial. There is no commenting, but hey, no comment capability at all is probably more convenient than the horrible user flow you get with blogger. So, my dear one reader, add me back to your netvibes, k? I swear I'll post something.
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Contact
Menu »Can't think of anything to say? Click each red word to try this Mad-Lib:
What's up, Dan? I [verb] your site. The [noun] is [adjective]!
How's your [noun]? I [verb] the way [pronoun] used to [verb]. LOL.
Anyway, we should [verb] sometime, maybe [prepositional phrase].
Take it [adjective]!
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