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Alda Vigdis Skarphedinsdottir

aldavigdis
Berlin, Germany

While working on a move towards the Laravel stack, In my day job, I am mainly focused on writing bespoke WordPress plugins and providing security, quality assurance and auditing services in the web hosting sector.

My open source contributions started with me providing localisation and translations for WordPress, Adium and more. I am still known for contributing patches to software that requires Icelandic support or has locale specific quirks that need to be fixed.

On the public-facing side, my work on the annual Icelandic Book Catalogue for the Association of Icelandic Book Publishers has been my most popular one in recent years. It is maintained as open source software under the FIBUT account here on Github, including the printing process.

This is what am currently focused on in terms of open source software:

  • Contributions towards the WordPress community that don't depend on specific vendors or requires approval from the WP leadership
  • Iceland specific Ruby gems (namely a Kennitala and Postal code parser)

My most popular repository on Github has to be an Icelandic contract template for software developers. I have received a lot of praise for that one and it has proven useful to a lot of people in the community.

My main focus at the moment is to make my wp-tests-strapon test harness for WordPress into a stable and useful state. I would also like to get the support to make DockPress a well-known and trusted tool for scalable WordPress hosting.

1 sponsor has funded aldavigdis’s work.

@aldavigdis

This is mainly about having some form of morale boost than anything else. Seeing that people not only use but appreciate my work would be great.

@ChrisWiegman

Featured work

  1. aldavigdis/dockpress

    A Docker image for running WordPress in the cloud, with Memcached and New Relic support built in

    Shell 14
  2. aldavigdis/wp-tests-strapon

    Strap your WordPress PHPUnit tests library onto your WordPress plugin or theme with this handy Composer package.

    PHP 6
  3. aldavigdis/samningur

    Verktökusamningur fyrir forritara

  4. HTML
  5. aldavigdis/kennitala-gem

    Process Icelandic kenntiala identification numbers in Ruby

    Ruby 1
  6. aldavigdis/postnumer-gem

    Validate and use Icelandic postal codes with Ruby.

    Ruby

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