Offmessage

This blog is maintained by Andy Theyers, a technologist based in York, UK. I’m one of the directors and founders of Isotoma, a software development company that is frankly rather good at what it does. You should probably hire us. Recently we’ve built Forkd for ourselves, The Key for the UK Government and the online karaoke site home.luckyvoice.com among many many others.

I have three lovely kids and a set of unhealthy obsessions that mostly revolve around cricket, rugby, tomatoes, curry, Python and Javascript. You can find me all over the Internet, from Forkd, through Last.fm and on to Twitter.

I started this blog a long time ago now, mainly as an experiment in PHP. The advent of del.icio.us (yup, you can find me there, too) removed its primary purpose (a place to dump links), while the advent of ‘proper’ blogging software (like Wordpress) removed its secondary purpose (a place to practice programming before I returned to it as a living).

Still, I appear to be addicted to posting, hence the continuing content.

For the historians out there this is version 4 of Offmessage, versions 1 to 3 being cobbled together PHP, MySQL and hideously uncompliant HTML and CSS. I’m hoping this version is a lot better. I know a lot better now, which helps…

It’s certainly prettier, which, as anyone who knows me will testify, is more important than the content in my book.