User:David.dyess

My name is, of course, David Dyess II. I grew up in Leeds, AL and attended Moody High School in Moody, AL, graduating in 1999. I have been sort of the computer nerd-type since I was 10 or 11. Everything I know about computers I learned from trial and error, mainly because when I broke them I had to figure out the problem and fix it. In 2000 I got into doing web design, having a few personal pages on free hosting sites and finally getting my own domain name (Tangant.com) in late 2001. I joined the PostNuke project as a community contributor in 2001 and in 2002 released a hacked up blocks module called Nuclei. Shortly after releasing Nuclei, I joined the USAF. While I was away Nuclei became one of the most popular modules for PostNuke, even (supposedly) inspiring a theme system based on it. After being disappointed with the development of the theme system, (supposedly) based around my module, I decided to move to the Xaraya project. Later I dropped development of Nuclei completely and handed it off to my net friend Franz Skanning. Nuclei was to be something great, some may say it was, but it never became what I invisioned it to be, so I moved on.

Not a lot has happened since then, mainly a lot of plans and a lot of wasted time. I'm hoping to change that trend, as I move into the developmental stages of what could be my great thing. It is basically everything about the Internet that I find useful, stirred together in my own little mix and recipe. Where Nuclei was supposed to make PostNuke web development flexible and simple, my new project is supposed to make the Internet users' experience flexible and enjoyable. I call it Digital IDentity. You see pieces of it here and there on the Internet today, but not the way I think it should be.

The point of me being here is to record the progress of my project, the successes and the failures. Maybe one day I can look back on it and remember something that was once lost.

Created on 19 May, 2006.