====== About Glump.net ======

===== Purpose =====

This is my personal web site where I publish stuff like howtos, software, code snippets, and maybe an occasional rant or two.

===== History =====

This web site has had a long and varied history, and sorry but I can't remember any dates at the moment. :-)

It all started when I setup Microsoft Internet Information Server (or was it Apache?) on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server in my dorm room at college. (And no, of course I didn't pay for Windows---I "borrowed" it.) I had some static files and of course I had to edit a bunch of files every time I posted new stuff.

Then a buddy of mine "donated" an old discarded computer from his company to me and we built it up with RedHat Linux and Apache. Pretty soon, I installed Movable Type and this made it a lot easier to add content to the site. Of course, it didn't really cause me to update it much more often than I had. This RedHat/Apache/Movable Type server followed me around---going home with me during school breaks and following me back at the start of the next term---all the while happily serving up my web site and all my personal files. Over the years, it got some hardware and software upgrades. I added some photo gallery and forum software, and life was good.

Then I got a job. Life was better---for me but not for the web site.

The content stagnated, asshat script kiddies broke in and defaced it a couple of times, blog spammers relentlessly added spam comments. At some point, I got fed up. This was around January 2005. I bought some space at [[http://www.dreamhost.com|DreamHost]] (who kick ass, by the way), took down the old server, and intended to move into DreamHost and rebuild the site.

Nothing happened for about nine months.

Eventually, I got my act together and picked a new CMS---Movable Type's license long ago started to taste rather bitter. I chose [[http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki|DokuWiki]], which is geared towards building documentation. In fact, that's what most of my good stuff is: articles about computery stuff, plus some actual software.

So here you have it: Glump.net version 3.0... or something. Built on DokuWiki running on Apache, running on some Unix or other at DreamHost. (Did I mention DreamHost is awesome?) The new site has no interactive features that the old one had, such as forums or comments. I just don't have time to moderate them, and there's too much spam going on.

Addendum: In March 2007, I upgraded to the latest version of Dokuwiki, ditched the sidebar navigation, and reworked the home page.

Addendum: In November 2008, I upgraded DokuWiki again, created a simpler template (visual theme), and moved all the ''/dokuwiki/*'' pages to ''/''.

For more info, see the [[Colophon]].