Hello. Welcome to my underdeveloped homepage, now newly updated, although that statement itself will no doubt seem quaintly amusing when I forget to update it again for another two years.
This page aims to provide some vaguely useful information about me, in order to help people survive the fact that Wikipædia doesn't have a page on me.
My name's Dave Cridland, a sufficiently unusual name that there are virtually no hits for "Dave Cridland" on Google that aren't me, which is useful for fueling my ego, which is otherwise in tatters due to the aforementioned lack of wikipædia page.
As of the beginning of August, 2006, I work for Isode Ltd. I work mostly (but not totally) on internet messaging, and I have a side-order of SNMP.
Some people are curious about my work with ACAP and Lemonade (or low-bandwidth email for constrained environments). There's a Wiki and things on my Trac site, or the old pages starting here. The two major pieces of software - Infotrope Polymer and the Infotrope ACAP Server, are both available under the GPL.
I also serve on the XMPP Council of the XSF. We meet once every now and then, and use our Powers to Do Stuff with XEPs. I'm not really sure what goes on, to be honest, I'm only really there to make the tea. But it is, frankly, excellent tea.
I have one wife, two children, and two cats, and live in Carmarthen, which is in the Wild West of Wales, in a area where there's a high percentage of Welsh speakers, but I'm actually English.
Both of my children are in a Welsh-speaking primary school. Some fathers claim they don't understand their children - in my case this is literally true. My wife has a part-time job working for a charity, and turned the school's PTA into a fully-fledged charity as well, which she now rules with an iron fist.
The eye I use for my avatar in various places is actually my younger child's eye, from a picture taken when said child was a few months old.
More inane ramblings can be found on my blog, should anyone want to read them.
SmokePing, a rather old and tatty MRTG, and a swish and exciting Cacti also run here, monitoring stuff that probably isn't interesting to anyone else - this is mostly (but not completely) related to my work.