dopiaza.org is a web site devoted to the ramblings of David Wilkinson. The content varies over time, but you'll typically find things about such diverse subjects as software, food and photography—because those are some of the things he's interested in.
David has been working in the IT industry for over twenty years, spending much of that time promoting the use of the Internet as a serious commercial tool. Pioneering innovative uses of Internet technologies, he was responsible for some of the very first e-commerce sites to be built and was creating dynamic content and performing session tracking long before Netscape invented the cookie. Currently, he spends his days as an independent consultant, working with both small companies and large blue chip organisations, helping them figure out how to solve all those really difficult problems.
In between the hours spent at his computer, he tries to get out and about with his camera. He started taking photographs as a child—once, when he was twelve and on the first day of his seaside holiday, he blew almost all of his spending money on a 110 pocket camera and had to beg ice-creams off his parents for the rest of the week. He went on to dabble, on and off, with a variety of cameras over the years, but it is the advent of the digital SLR that has properly rekindled his interest in photography and he has now forever forsaken the darkroom in favour of Photoshop.
He is Operations Manager at Utata where he looks after all of the back-end systems and is responsible for creating and maintaining the software that drives the site and its integration with Flickr.
He is also the author of a book entitled Flickr Mashups. This guide to building applications with the Flickr API was published by Wiley under their Wrox imprint in January 2007.
He lives in a small English village in rural Northamptonshire with his wife, three extremely lazy cats and a couple of chickens. He would also like everyone to know that he doesn't usually talk about himself in the third person, and doesn't really know why he is doing so here.
