About Me

My name is Glen Campbell, and I’ve been hacking on the World Wide Web since 1998. I build web applications and maintain a variety of websites for myself and others. In addition to this site, I’m active on a number of social media sites: Yahoo! Profiles, Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, LinkedIn, Chi.mp, Delicious, and probably others I’ve forgotten.

Siteframe is a website-building package I created in 2001. It is written in PHP5 and utilizes the MySQL database backend. It was, for its day, pretty sophisticated, and it has many of the features that are now considered common in the so-called “Web 2.0″ arena. It allowed sites that were created entirely from “user-generated content.” That is, anyone with Internet access could create an account, write text, or upload images. All this seems pretty commonplace today, but it was very ground-breaking at the time. Though I ceased active development on Siteframe in 2004, it is still provided by a number of web-hosting providers and I get 20-40 new site registrations each month. Curiously, Siteframe is being deleted from Wikipedia because of “no significant third-party sources”. See Siteframe on Alexa.

Using Siteframe, I’ve built a number of photo-sharing communities. The original site, and the inspiration for Siteframe, was The Contax G Pages. This site established a community of users, still going strong, who shared an avid interest in the Contax G1 and G2 autofocus rangefinder cameras. Though Contax the company has been sold and the production of cameras discontinued, the G1 and G2 cameras are still capable of producing amazing results, as this site illustrates. Many of the Contax G1 and G2 owners also have other cameras, so they put those images on The non-Contax G Pages.

The Daily Photo is also built using Siteframe (albeit a much more recent version than for http://contaxg.com). It allows users to submit a single photo in each 24-hour time period. It was launched mainly as an experiment to see how people selectively choose photos to share, rather than allowing them to force-feed huge numbers of photos as are commonly seen on other photo-sharing websites.

I also run The Daily Funnies. It also a blog, but more of a mailing list. I store jokes that people send me; you can subscribe to the email version of the RSS feed and get jokes in your inbox. The name is a bit of a misnomer; I rarely send jokes on a daily basis; it’s usually about 3-5 times per month.

I maintain a number of mailing lists using the superb Mailman package. They are all hosted at my DotList domain. (Some of the run under other domain names, however, but they’re all on the same server.) Many of these lists are open to the public.

I used to be an avid photographer; I still love the creative process, but I don’t really take photos as much as I used to. You can, however, buy prints of my best work from my SmugMug site or you can view everything, including the rubbish, on my Flickr photostream.

A random selection of file downloads is available at my download server. These are mostly presentations from various conferences I’ve spoken at over the last few years along with some (legal) music from a band I used to be in.

I have my own server farm, mostly made up of pizza-box servers discarded from failed startups. The servers, and everything associated with that infrastructure, falls under the broadpool.net domain. For example, I contribute a NTP time server to the NTP Pool Project; the server can be accessed directly as time.broadpool.net. (Please note, however, you’ll be much happier if you address the NTP pool directly for time services instead of hitting my box directly; the pool will ensure that you get a local server with high availability.)

You can browse my public CVS tree here.