SignpostMarv's Blog

Aurora-Sim WebAPI Roadmap

SignpostMarv — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:34:43 +0000

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

SignpostMarv — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:23:35 +0000

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" [...]

Life On Mars/Ashes to Ashes: It’s over now

SignpostMarv — Sat, 22 May 2010 02:15:20 +0000

I’ve just finished watching the final episode of Ashes to Ashes season 3. The ending didn’t come as a complete surprise, since two years ago I wrote up my thoughts on possible explanations for what was happening. Granted, I was wrong about what if Gene Hunt is an “angel”, but I was right about a [...]

Dogbert: Viewer Advocate

SignpostMarv — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:32:45 +0000

Original Strip Dilbert characters are by Scott Adams and ©2009, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Mashup created under the Collaborative Content License of The Official Dilbert Website terms, from where the above images originated.

Updates to agni.sl.mapapi.net

SignpostMarv — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:43:26 +0000

I've made quite a few changes to my pluggable version of slurl.com, most of which centred around replacing the hash-slurl.js plugin with hash-fu.js. Below is a summary of the changes made today.

Second Life: Script-triggered Sounds and Viewer Audio Channels

SignpostMarv — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:22:28 +0000

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

SignpostMarv — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:04:42 +0000

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 [...]

Observation: Police and Fuel Prices

SignpostMarv — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:24:35 +0000

So it seems that fuel prices have reached the point where the local constabulary are being sent out on public transport instead of doing rounds in a patrol car.

WebComic RSS

SignpostMarv — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:48:18 +0000

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 [...]

Quick SL Achievements web client demo

SignpostMarv — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:03 +0000

Since I've made some progress on the project, I decided to create this video demonstrating the web client for the SL Achievements API that I'm working on.