Doug Green

This is my personal blogging website. My professional site is Doug Green Consulting. Topics here will range from Drupal to Day Trading to Travel to Product Reviews and Movie Reviews to Recovery. In other words, this is my personal website and will cover anything I'm interested in.

You can follow me on twitter or facebook, contact me through Drupal or skype douggreen or aim douggreen1. I can sometimes be found in #drupal irc (also #nowpublic's private irc) or in Hotcomm's TTRoom.

I am a software developer. I graduated from Cornell University in 1986 with an Engineering degree while majoring in Computer Science. I like building things. For the first 8 or so years of my professional career I worked on Unix in C and for the next 10 or so years I worked on Windows. As the world-wide-web developed, I took time out from my MS Windows work to do various web projects, including an ecommerce site that almost broke $1million per month and creating a CMS before we even had the term. For the last three years I have worked on the the Drupal project. Drupal is the software running this website. It is a powerful Open Source contrent management system. If you don't have a website, and would like one, I recommend you look up Drupal.

I work at NowPublic. NowPublic built a citizen journalism website and created some exciting technology that which scans for news stories within social media conversations. NowPublic was bought by examiner.com in September 2009 and I was the first new hire after the acquisition.

Before this, I was a partner at CivicActions. I built much of my Drupal reputation while at CivicActions. CivicActions is a different type of company. While they are a for-profit Drupal shop, the company was built to help progressives and non-profits use technology to attain their goals. We have a great niche, having built websites for people like Amnesty International, Witness, and Rare, and dozens of other clients. I get to focus on the technical work that I enjoy, knowing that the people I work for are progressing a world that I want to live in.

During my last year I worked mostly on Rare Planet. Rare is a 30 year old non-profit with environmental campaigns running in over 100 countries. They originally wanted a campaign management system. A campaign generally runs for two years, and has very specific milestones along the way. It is managed by a campaign manager (typically a volunteer who lives in the host country), and pride course manager's (rare staffers), and a bevy of local partners. The campaign management system we built them handles the complicated permissions of who can do what, the various content that gets uploaded, and a scoring system to keep track of how things are going. In addition to the campaign management system, this is a multilingual social networking site. The technology has been challenging. And the client has forced us to work harder at our process.

I have been studying Day-Trading since December 2008. My Dad has been trading for almost 20 years, and over that time, has built a suite of indicators. I've watched him for years, and last November, my wife and I decided that his stuff was worth exploring. You can find him at Trader USA / Dimension Trader. While I bought into the hype, and I was hoping that I could start making money within weeks of starting ... hey, I'm smart, I can do it. It hasn't been that easy, but I'm making progress. My Dad is a trader, and not a programmer, so the first thing I had to do was make his software faster. After that, I had to learn how to read his signals and trade. I totally rewrote his package into a nicer TradeStation framework for reviewing, back-testing and executing. This has become my prototyping environment. I've also created a new Ninja Traderpackage called ZoneTrader that will be available for purchase through Trader USA.