Aurora-Sim WebAPI Roadmap

1.x I’m considering our frozen branch to be the 1.x release- it gets no new features, only bug fixes at this point 2.x This work focuses on the separation between the original PHP and the c# module should be complete, allowing for more flexible development. Remove the manual SQL installation step. Port all usage of [...]

Deploying OpenSim on Windows Server 2008

This article was written at work, but I thought it might be of use to current and potential OpenSim users :-) Lates OSGrid Binaries are available from their website. Requirements MySQL (ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/mysql-5.5.8-win32.msi used) OpenSim (http://download.osgrid.org/osgrid.opensim-01262011.v0.7.1.c472764.zip used) The IP address of the machine that OpenSim is being installed on. Installation MySQL Start the installer Click "Next" [...]

Second Life: Script-triggered Sounds and Viewer Audio Channels

Second Life allows objects to be scripted to trigger the playback of sounds. These can include anything including (but not limited to) birdsong, gunshots, clicks and sound bites. The viewer- or at least those intended to present the full audio-visual experience (there are text-only applications for accessing Second Life)- has an audio preferences panel, giving [...]

Fixing a pet peeve with the display of many Twitter avatars on a single page

So I sent Suzen Juel a tweet about Spotify, suggesting that if not for distributing her own music, she could use it to let her fans know what music she likes. Twitter being twitter and having the open API that it does, SpotiChart had a tweetbot that detected the presence of a link to Spotify [...]

WebComic RSS

I had a poke around my public services (the stuff on services.signpostmarv.name), cleaned up a bunch of crap that was no-longer in use, then decided to poke around the code for my WebComic RSS service. There’s a mix of UHU4 and UHU5 code in there, so I thought it was time to start upgrading the [...]