The Webalizer: Credits

Since I began development of The Webalizer back in September of 1997, many, many people have been instrumental in the development, design and direction it has taken. Here is a very incomplete list, in no particular order:

Of course, none of this would have been possible without all the fine folks who made Linux a reality. This, undoubtably, must include the Free Software Foundation and their GNU project, which produced all the tools and, IMHO, the best C compiler around. I am a firm believer in the power of Open Source Software, and made The Webalizer open source as well, in my own, very small attempt, to give something back to the community that made it possible. These people deserve a great deal of admiration and respect.

The Apache Group for developing the best web server on the face of the planet. If it didn't exist, I probably would have never bothered writing the program at all.

Thomas Boutell, David Rowley, Marcel Wijkstra, David Koblas and Jef Poskanzer for their work on making the gd graphics library possible, giving The Webalizer it's ability to produce inline graphics.

All the people who wrote many of the other web server log file analysis packages. A lot of the design and inspiration came from programs such as analog, wusage and wwwstat, however none were 'just right', which is what prompted me to write my own from scratch. A lot of the HTML design ideas were inspired by http-analyze 1.9e written by Stefan Stapelberg. Some people have even suggested that The Webalizer is a clone of http-analyze, or visa-versa. I can assure you that it is not, and while the output produced by both programs may have many similarities, that is about the only thing they have in common.

Everyone who has submitted suggestions, comments, requests for features, and all those who have helped find the bugs and make the code more bullet proof, and able to handle extremely large sites. Far too numerious to list here... You know who you are and I thank you. I would also like to thank Tony Schreiber for making the cool button at the bottom of the most of these pages.

All the individuals who have helped with the language file transaltions. This includes (let me if I left anyone out): Jordi Bruguera, J.Q. La Poutre, Sylvain Avril, Dirk Meyer, Bernd Dau, Dirk Kocherscheidt, SysWolf, Soren Gust, Martin Kraemer, Alberto Benati, Dariusz P. Pawlak, Sergey Groznyh, Michal Michalac, Alfredo Sola, Daniel Bergstrom, Daniel Gau, Jiri T. Pelech, Seung-young Kim, Michele America, Arquimedes M.da Silva, Mircea Ilie, and Yves Lafon.

Thomas Gaume and the fine folks over at AirWire.net for graciously donating the space and bandwidth to co-locate the main Webalizer site. I'd also like to thank everyone else who wrote in with offers of space and support when I was looking for a new home for the server. I really do appreciate it, and am glad to know that there are so many people out there willing to lend a helping hand.

And finally, I would like to thank my wife and family for putting up with me during all those late nite and weekend programming sessions. Their understanding and cooperation was probably the best support that anyone could have given me.