David Dyess .com

My name is David Dyess II and this is my personal blog.

I am in the USAF, stationed at Minot AFB, ND. I grew up in Leeds / Moody, AL and graduated from Moody High School in 1999. I am married to Stanzi and we have 1 daughter, Raionna. I do web design and scripting with PHP as a hobby. I play fps games like Call of Duty on my XBox or Counter-Strike on the PC. I also like some sports games, but I don’t play them as often.

I’ve released projects for PostNuke and Xaraya in the past. Some of my projects were more infamous than others, such as the Nuclei blocks module for PostNuke and my X-Nucleus themes for Xaraya.

Around 2006 I began writing a CMS on top of Xaraya as a framework. I called it the Digital IDentity project and gave it a home at BeSquishy.com. ID allowed users to build websites on top of the existing CMS, independent of other sites on BeSquishy.com. While BeSquishy.com is still active, I’ve put the ID project on hold until I finish writing my new PHP framework.

In August 2008 I began development of a new PHP framework. It’s named Clay Framework and is built for speed. Clay is purely modular, which means it doesn’t have a set core, but uses configurations to load modules needed for the current page. It is still in an Alpha state, but is already quite powerful. Clay uses a Xaraya-like MVC model, but the main difference is it features a pure PHP template engine. It has an application layer that is the only visible layer, with modules and libraries working in the background.

There’s more, I just don’t have time to finish this right now…