Jonathan Puddle was born in New Zealand, lived in Canada for 8 years and now resides in Finland. He’s a geek and a gamer, spends too much time on the internet, not enough time at the gym, but has big plans to be get into business, climb Everest, and be a philanthropist some day. He’s married to a wonderful Canadian girl involved in ICT development in Africa.
J Puddy was born out of a passion for dance music and having a conveniently placed DJ friend. Playing a number of events in and around Toronto, he had the pleasure of opening a concert for Delirious in early 2006. J Puddy is a member of the Toronto Groove Collective… Jyväskylä Chapter.
J Puddy.net runs on Wordpress, using the Unwakeable theme, by Tyler Longren. The artwork in the header is by George Smith (Precurser). I use FeedBurner for my main site feed. I use all and have modified most of these plugins:
- Akismet spam plugin from Wordpress to keep out the filth
- The All in One SEO Pack and the Google Sitemap XML plugin for search engine optimization
- Gregarious for social networking
- I use the iCal Events plugin combined with RunPHP to display upcoming events pulled from my Google Calender feed
- The Search Pages plugin to allow you to search within pages, and the Search Meter plugin gives me search stats
- The Static Front Page plugin gives me a front page, and WP-ContactForm provides the contact page
- The flickr RSS plugin pulls the latest images from my flickr account.
On the backend I use MySQL and PHP to run this stuff. During development I used The GIMP to assemble the header and adjust the colours of the theme. SmartFTP is my FTP utility of choice. I used PHPMyAdmin, OpenOffice.org Calc, Notepad, and WinMerge to import the data from my old site.
If you can tell me what my favicon is without looking at source, I’ll give you a prize.