About
Q: Name?
A: Nikola Ivanov.
Q: Occupation?
A: Web Evangelist.
Q: Residence?
A: Mainly Frankfurt am Main and Sofia.
Q: Interests?
A: Web Techniques.
Q: Religion?
A: Semantic Player, Unobtrusive Entertainer and Accessibility Advocate.
I’m a Web Developer with more than years of experience based in Frankfurt am Main.
Several years ago I’ve been the maintainer of #punk’s website. It wasn’t much of a CMS because it lacked an admin interface, but still …. the frontend was complete and the content was preprocessed. And in the back sat a good ol’ MySQL. I discontinued the site. I outlived my IRC phase and my free time got sparser and sparser.
The system evolved than in 2004 into an i18n’ed blogging platform. Unfortunately due to a HDD failure this project died.
As much as I like to I don’t have the time to be devoted to the open source community as much as I like to. Luckily most of my employers like to give something back. I developed once a plugin for Wordpress - TOCoholic. There is unsjs - a way of making smilies on the web accessible.
I first used dotProject early 2007 for my employer back than. One of my tasks back than was to customize it and to develop several modules to our needs. Few of them went open source and back to the community. I liked the tool and I’m using it since as my personal time sheet tracker.
I’m working for my current employer on a bigger project involving Drupal. I’m developing a bunch of modules. Some of them are content related, some other are pretty abstract. I am also the leading frontend engineer.