About Glump.net

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

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 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 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.