Monthly Archives: August 2007

SL Map API lite

As I’ve been mentioning recently, I’ve been revamping my old Map API using eventful.com’s API as a data source. Currently, there’s only 1 call, http://services.signpostmarv.name/secondlife/mapapi/.
Call by Region
http://services.signpostmarv.name/secondlife/mapapi/foo/ where foo is the name of your region of choice.
Call by global co-ordinates
http://services.signpostmarv.name/secondlife/mapapi/x-y/.
Results

If you make a call by name for a region that’s not in my cache, you’ll [...]

Second Life Region List – Historical, Main Grid

In the process of revamping my SL Map API, I discovered that some old regions were listed in the cache- “Wall Street” was in there, but “Saxo Bank” wasn’t for example. To reflect this discovery, the list of Second Life regions which I had published yesterday now only includes regions that are found in the [...]

Second Life Region List

Whoops. I published the list as a post instead of page X-D.
Basically, I’ve been playing with the Eventful.com API a lot recently and you can now view a list of all Second Life regions posted to eventful.com by Linden Lab.
Update
As pointed out by Dahlia Trimble, the API call I was running was turning up duplicate [...]

Office Hours

SignpostMarv's Office Hours: 26th August 2007
Times
Sunday, 11am SLT — 1pm SLT
Location
Lanercost, SLOpenID Central (18,7,29)

SLOpenID
SL Birthday Events
Marvulous products

Anything is up for discussion, although if a Resident has an issue discuss on these topics they'll take priority over other issues.

UPDATED: please excuse any 500 Internal Server Errors

Update
Everything be fixxorz
Compiling software is a pain in the ass
Being hosted on Dreamhost is a double-edged sword.

On one hand, you get the freedom to install pretty much whatever you want on your account (aside from most programs which require a persistent process)- you can run bleeding-edge versions of your scripting language of choice, you can [...]

Marv's cooking advice

Feta Salad
Never put honey & mustard dressing on a Feta Salad. It makes it taste of barf.

The Joy of Tech

The Joy of Tech is approaching it’s 1000th issue. If you’ve not read JoT before, now might be a good time to start :-)
p.s. in keeping with yesterday’s post about what I’d hope to see from WindLight, here’s a WindLight-themed JoT issue: You can lead a geek to water…

What I hope to see from WindLight

Office Hours

SignpostMarv's Office Hours: 18th August 2007
Times
Saturday, 11am SLT — 1pm SLT
Location
Lanercost, SLOpenID Central (18,7,29)

SL Birthday Events
SLOpenID
Marvulous products

Anything is up for discussion, although if a Resident has an issue discuss on these topics they'll take priority over other issues.

Office Hours

SignpostMarv's Office Hours: 15th August 2007
Times
Today, 1pm SLT — 2pm SLT
Location
Lanercost, SLOpenID Central (18,7,29)

SL Birthday Events
SLOpenID
Marvulous products

Anything is up for discussion, although if a Resident has an issue discuss on these topics they'll take priority over other issues.

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