About Me

Hi!  I am Daria Norris and I'm a Web Developer for the Free Library of Philadelphia, where I develop custom library applications.  I have been a ColdFusion developer since 1996, getting my start in a corporate library where I developed a checkout system that evolved into a Competitive Intelligence search engine.  My passion is making information easier to find and I plan to return to school to finish a double masters degree in Information Systems and Library Science.

Check out the Free Library of Philadelphia, a site that gets 20 million hits a month on average.  My biggest project is the Digital Collections search engine, a catalog of 20K digital images from the library's scholarly collections including medieval manuscripts, historical photographs, maps and more

Co-workers encouraged me to start my own business in 1997 and I spent 10 years happy and content in my 5tagger universe.  I've seen the light and am braving the OO world.  This is the documentation of that transition.