Coffeecode Consulting

Software customization, documentation, training, and migration services

I'm Dan Scott, sole proprietor of Coffeecode Consulting, and I have contributed code, documentation, and time to many open source communities since 2000. I am perhaps best known for my efforts with the Evergreen open source library system; you'll find me active on the mailing lists and IRC channel trying to help welcome newcomers and strengthen the Evergreen project overall.

I make all of the output from my consulting work--code, documentation, training materials--openly available to the community under the appropriate licences. None of us have the time to waste recreating such deliverables, and our communities are collectively stronger if everyone shares their efforts. Note that this means if you are looking for someone to work on proprietary code, you are going to have to find someone else.

Contact

Send me an email at dan@coffeecode.net and let me know what you need.

Evergreen services

These are some of my areas of expertise in which I have a particular interest in doing more work:

• Catalogue development: major contributor to the TPAC, with a focus on clean HTML + CSS, accessibility, and structured data (schema.org enhancement). Recent work includes:
  • 880 "alternate graphic field" support (2.4 feature)
  • Linkable library names in copy tables (2.5 feature)
• Authorities development: developed the authority management interface and much of the authority / bibliographic linking and automated update infrastructure
• Training: many sessions given at various Evergreen conferences
• Migration: migrated a number academic and special libraries to Evergreen
• Documentation: a co-author of Evergreen in Action (2012) and a frequent contributor to the Evergreen documentation
• Troubleshooting: From relieving database performance bottlenecks to overcoming upgrade obstacles... I've done a lot.
• Quality assurance: I set up the continuous integration platform for Evergreen.

PostgreSQL training

• Introducing SQL, PostgreSQL, and the Evergreen database schema: three-day course developed initially for Bibliomation (2010), revised and extended for COOL (2013)
• Implementing full-text search in PostgreSQL: tutorial delivered at PostgresOpen 2012

VuFind services

• Development: Recently contributed several bug fixes for the Evergreen driver for VuFind; have also contributed a structured data implementation for VuFind