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Ben's page of stuff.

My name is Ben Campbell.
I'm a computer programmer.
I work for the Media Standard Trust
Here is my CV.

Blog Posts

• Anatomy of a news article online

My assorted projects:

• journalisted.com - Read all about them!
• unsourced.org - "If you don't link to your primary sources you are dead to me"
• complaints.pccwatch.co.uk - browsable database of cases from the Press Complaints Commission
• careerpowerups.com - For jobs that aren't a big pile of shite
• Play Zig. It's a game where you shoot stuff.
• DSlurper - Nintendo DS app. Download files from a standard webserver.
• HappyHTTP, a nice simple HTTP library.
• Evilpixie - a good, old-fashioned pixel editor
• Binify - Represent binary files as text
• Font2Texture - Convert outline fonts into bitmaps
• drongo-forms - A port of Django.forms to PHP
• fuzzydate - Date/time parsing package
• metareadability - Extract headline, pubdate, byline from arbitary news articles on the web
• retain - tool to match files based on timestamps in the filename

Various other things

• Slides from my talk on Civic Hacking (2007-07-03)
• An annoyingly-renamed Gamasutra article I wrote about tools programming.
• An epic Viking Saga, filmed by Tom and I (4MB mpeg).
• A list of games I've worked on

Older Projects

• I worked on TortoiseCVS, back in the day - I was the second user/developer.
• Some stuff I've written for PalmPilot
• NagThing - avoid repetitive strain injury