After a dynamic few months of painting, decorating, sawing, hammering and drilling TDDOHQ, my new flat, is finally at a stage where I can put the DIY to one side and get back to my geeky roots. I'm also very very very very pleased to say that fiancee has also just moved in with me, turning it from a mere set of walls into a proper home.
 
Web-wise there's been much happening. There is of course the full TDDO redesign which has taken a couple of months and allowed me to build my new web framework while I was at it. I've since also used this framework to start building mySphere, a site with an environmental conscience pulling together articles about climate change, practical information what you can do to help and busting many irksome myths about how we affect the planet. It's still in its early stages but I'm actively seeking collaborators to help get it off the ground. Give me a shout if you want to help.
 
The Forum is also feeling the benefit of my new-found free time and, together with the admin team, I'm giving the site a facelift and rejuvination. Having cruised past its fifth birthday in March it's great to be keeping it all going strong and having so many good people regularly popping in for a chat.

Being a charitable sort of fella I work with several charities, primarily on their websites. Although many of these need very little maintenance I've just finished big redesigns on the sites for Samantabhadra Buddhist Centre in Birmingham and Potala Buddhist Centre in Belfast. If you're looking for some peace in either of those areas then you should check them out :)
 
My new job as a software developer with Setfire Media has given me a load of experience with new languages including Perl and Ruby-on-Rails giving me a total of nine languages I can now code in. Damn!
 
TheDaddy.org now has its very own RSS aggregator. It's fairly simple right now but it automatically pulls together a few of my favourite technological and environmental feeds and updates itself daily. Mharvellous :)
 
Finally I've moved Haki, my happiness wiki to TDDO. It's just a wiki where anyone can add inspirational quotes, happy thoughts, amusing images and quality links purely to brighten peoples day :)

TheDaddy.org was first registered in November 2003 but in the past the domain has really only existed for the benefit of my Forum. Sure I've had a few bits and pieces on here but really nothing special. After doing web design for my own amusement, as side projects at the BBC and on a voluntary basis for various organisations in the summer of 2007 I left my job with the BBC and moved back to my hometown of Manchester to become a professional web designer.
 
After four months here I started thinking about my web ventures and realised that, even though TheDaddy.org should have been the pinnacle of my work it was pretty damn rubbish. The best thing about it was the evil French giraffe I put on the front page after a few beers once. So I decided that it was time for a full top to bottom redesign.
 
TheDaddy.org is built on a PHP framework called SLAP (Simplified Library for APLC Programming) which is a cut down version of APLC that I engineered to be more user friendly and optimised for a single application environment. APLC has been an ongoing project in my new department for over a year and I now count myself among its developers. It is freely available under GPL and I'm happy to provide the SLAP framework if anyone wants it. As far as I'm aware TheDaddy.org is the first ever site to use APLC and hopefully not the last :)