Writing
Professional quality documents
I am one of the most experienced technical writers in the world. My books have been published globally and translated into virtually every language you can think of. I have written books, courses, blogs, articles, press releases, marketing and sales copy and more. I have also written about everything from how to build super computers and shell scripting to science fiction and yes, I've even edited poetry. ;)
If you or your company needs professional documents developed, written and laid out or simply want someone to polish your content so that it oozes quality, then I'm your guy.
Drop me a line to get the ball rolling. Describe the project you have in mind and I can provide a quote based on the document length and subject complexity.
"Bestselling author of development, eCommerce and marketing books." ~ Wikipedia
I am a serial entrepreneur and startup founder. I also consult to huge corporates and SMEs - providing insight and experience that relates business objectives to technical, analytical, Internet marketing, and SEO solutions. Tell me what your business needs; and I'll make it so.
"World class content, business, SEO & Internet marketing services!"
David Mercer
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Current projects
OO PHP Web service ACO solution to TSP
Building an OO PHP web service application using ACO (Ant colony optimization) as a stochastic and heuristic way to solve the TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem) for the UK vehicle and fleet tracking firm 3D Tracking.
"Doctoral level maths, OOP, PHP and ants. Having nightmares about ants... ;)"
PHP and Views customizations for Drupal startup
Doing some heavy Views and PHP customizations for an SA startup called ZAPlayGround (not yet launched). Just worked out that Views won't pick up taxonomy terms from URL (path) aliases in organic group contextual block.
Provided a PHP default argument script to manually generate the path alias from the NID.
"It's working! Now to clone the view and away we go."
Business, marketing, SEO, social web analysis
Large corporate - NDA'd. Looking at business requirements, and how to improve the workflow with regards to creating social and SEO marketing content in the most efficient way. Complex requirements. Lots of stakeholders.
"Always interesting working with large organizations. Getting things done requires approval in triplicate ;)"
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Praise for David's writing
"Excellent - Very helpful" by Scott Jenkins
"Easy to understand Drupal book" by R. Todd
"Comprehensive but easy to follow" by S. Wile
"Good Drupal 7 book for beginners" by Chris fontenot
"Perfect introduction to osCommerce" by John Morehead
"All you need to set up an e-commerce store" by T. Fetcho
"Fantastic book for people wanting to explore the
world of e-commerce" by Liam O'Shannessy
"Good osCommerce starter book" by Horizon Enterprises
"Perfect book to start PHP" by Massimo Ardito
"PHP5 a really really good review" by onetrap